Position Summary
The Part-Time Human Resources Development (HRD) Instructor provides workforce readiness, life skills, career development, and reentry-focused instruction to adult learners in correctional facilities. The instructor supports students in developing the personal, interpersonal, and employability skills necessary for successful transitions to employment, education, and community life.
Instruction may include topics such as effective communication, decision-making, problem-solving, conflict resolution, stress management, emotional self-awareness, personal responsibility, workplace success skills, career exploration, job readiness, goal setting, and successful reentry planning. The instructor creates a structured, supportive learning environment that encourages personal growth, positive choices, and workforce preparedness.
Essential Responsibilities
- Teach HRD, employability, life skills, career development, and reentry-focused courses in correctional settings.
- Facilitate instruction and activities related to:
- Career exploration and goal setting
- Employability and workplace success skills
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Conflict resolution and problem-solving
- Decision-making and personal responsibility
- Stress management and coping strategies
- Job search, application, and interview skills
- Workplace expectations and professional behavior
- Reentry preparation and transition planning
- Establish and maintain a positive, respectful, and structured classroom environment.
- Adapt instructional methods to meet the needs of diverse adult learners using a variety of modalities including technology to the extent possible.
- Maintain accurate attendance, student records, assessments, and required documentation and meet deadlines.
- Communicate effectively with correctional staff and college personnel.
- Comply with all correctional facility rules, regulations, and security procedures.
- Participate in required professional development, meetings, and training activities.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution.
- Experience teaching, training, coaching, mentoring, facilitating groups, or working with adult learners.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and classroom management skills.
- Ability to establish professional boundaries while building rapport with students.
- Ability to work effectively with individuals from diverse educational, social, and cultural backgrounds.
- Ability to obtain and maintain correctional facility clearance and comply with all security requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, justice-involved, or other at-risk adult populations.
- Experience teaching adult education, workforce readiness, employability skills, life skills, HRD, reentry, or career development courses.
- Experience facilitating group instruction focused on personal growth, behavior change, goal achievement, or workforce preparation.
- Background in adult education, workforce development, corrections, probation/parole, criminal justice, human services, social services, rehabilitation, community-based organizations, recovery programs, military leadership, coaching, or mentoring.
- Experience using learner-centered and trauma-informed instructional practices.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Understanding of the challenges faced by justice-involved individuals as they prepare for employment and community reentry.
- Ability to motivate and encourage students toward positive educational, personal, and employment outcomes.
- Skill in facilitating productive discussions on sensitive or challenging topics.
- Ability to manage classroom dynamics with professionalism, consistency, and respect.
- Strong organizational, documentation, and time-management skills.
- Commitment to student success, workforce development, and lifelong learning.
Location
Correctional Facilities (Scotland CI and/or Richmond CI)
Open until filled
Equal Opportunity Employer