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The Las Positas Community
Las Positas College provides an inclusive, learning-centered, equity-focused environment that offers educational opportunities and support for completion of students transfer, degree, and career-technical goals while promoting lifelong learning. At Las Positas College we know that equity will be achieved by changing the impacts of structural racism, ableism, homophobia, and systematic poverty on student success and access to higher education, achieved through continuous evaluation and improvement of all services. We believe in a high-quality education focused on learning and an inclusive, culturally-relevant environment that meets the diverse needs of all our students and staff.

Equity is parity in student educational outcomes; it places belonging for students of color and disproportionately impacted students at center focus. Our prized and emerging equity efforts include Puente, Umoja, ConnectUp, Brother 2 Brother, Sister 2 Sister, Black Student Union, Presidential Task Force on Systemic and Institutionalized Racism, the Presidential Speaker Series, Black Education Association, UndocuAlly Taskforce, curriculum reviews and a linguistic justice curriculum.

Located in Livermore, Las Positas College is becoming an institution that reflects the diversity in California. We are a learning-centered institution focused on excellence and student success, and are fully committed to supporting all Tri-Valley residents in their quest for education and advancement.

We seek equity-minded applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits diversity brings to an educational community. We look for applicants who:

1. Value and intentionally promote diversity and consciousness of difference

2. Demonstrate cultural humility and an ongoing desire to improve cultural competence
3. Are dedicated to addressing issues of social justice

4. Accept their shared role and responsibility in addressing opportunity and achievement gaps experienced by students

5. Have experience and success in closing student equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices, or are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about implementing practices that achieve these goals

6. Actively seek to identify, disrupt, and remove institutional and/or systemic barriers that adversely impact historically marginalized communities

7. Empower the underrepresented and underserved

8. Foster students potential to become global citizens and socially responsible leaders

9. Believe that all people have the right to an education and work environment free from fear, harassment, or discrimination

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District is seeking to fill an Instructor, Chemistry for Las Positas College in Livermore, California.

This position reports directly to the Division Dean.

1. Ability and dedication to teach all levels of chemistry courses offered at Las Positas College (general, introductory, and allied health) including lectures and laboratories;

2. Ability to teach Chemistry enthusiastically, including incorporating new discoveries, research, and ideas into classrooms and teaching laboratories;

3. Ability to adapt instructional techniques to accommodate varied learning styles and abilities.

4. Commitment to collaborate in a timely fashion with laboratory technicians in the preparation of materials for courses;

5.Ability to develop and update curriculum outlines for chemistry courses;

6. Commitment to working successfully as a team with other faculty and classified professionals, in STEM and across the college and district;

7. Ability to implement, have respect for, and maintain standards of safe laboratory practices with students in the classroom;

8. Ability to contribute to the total operation of the Department, Division, and College;

9. Ability to work with computer-based instruction and integrate computers and associated peripherals as teaching and learning aids in lecture and laboratory settings;

10. Commitment to seek and support personal creativity and professional growth and demonstrate career objectives consistent with the mission of Las Positas College;

11. Commitment to participate in campus professional activities, which may include, but are not limited to, development of curriculum and new and innovative instructional approaches, committee membership, staff meetings, and community outreach;

12. Participate in recruitment and articulation activities;

13. Teach early morning, late afternoon, evening, weekend, and/or off campus classes when scheduled as part of the regular teaching assignment;

14. Ability to interact successfully with students, faculty, administrators, staff, and community groups;

15. Ability to communicate effectively both in oral and written form;

16. Evidence of sensitivity to and an understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethic backgrounds of community college students, including those with physical or learning disabilities.

Masters in chemistry

OR Bachelors in chemistry or biochemistry AND Masters in biochemistry, chemical engineering, chemical physics, physics, molecular biology or geochemistry

OR the equivalent.

You must upload all applicable transcripts, credentials, and/or certificates required to meet minimum qualification for the position for which you are applying. Any degrees earned outside the United States must have an official US Evaluation (course by course) of the transcripts and must be submitted with the application. The US evaluation must be done by a member of the NACES (https://www.naces.org/members). In the case that the file you are uploading is too large or you do not have the transcripts readily available, please upload a document in place stating you will be sending the documents to the CLPCCD District Office, Office of Human Resources, 7600 Dublin Boulevard, 3rd Floor, and Dublin, CA 94568 or by fax (925) 485-5254 by the closing date.

*Degrees in Progress: To be conferred on or before July 1, 2026 will be considered, provided that the applicant also submits (1) an up-to-date transcript, (2) a photocopy of the degree requirement from the school catalog, and (3) proof of current course(s) and enrollment. Please provide your explanation and background material by using the optional document upload called "Other Document". If you are unable to upload the above, please upload a document in its place and state you will be sending the documents to the Office of Human Resources, 7600 Dublin Boulevard, 3rd Floor, Dublin, CA 94568, by 5:00 p.m. (PST) on the closing date.

Applicants applying under the "Equivalent provision" must provide details that explain at time of application how their academic preparation is the equivalent of the degree listed above. Please provide your explanation by using the optional document upload called "Equivalency Statement".

Evidence of sensitivity to and an understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, including those with physical and learning disabilities.

1. Teaching experience in Chemistry at the college level, with an emphasis on

lower division courses.

2. Ability to advise students regarding transfer options, degrees, and careers to chemistry.

3. Commitment and ability to recruit and support under-represented groups including racial/ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals, andfirst-generation college students.

The positions are full-time, tenure track, beginning Fall 2026. Employment will begin on or about August 20, 2026.

INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES WHO ARE UNABLE TO CARRY OUT THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES OF THE POSITION WILL RECEIVE REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS TO ENABLE THEM TO PERFORM THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITION.

The Board of Trustees has updated Board Policy 7330 to incorporate information on COVID vaccination requirements, which are currently suspended. Accordingly, employee(s) must comply with the Board Policy found at:
http://districtazure.clpccd.org/policies/files/docs/BP7330.pdf.

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District reserves the right to close or not fill any advertised position.

The purpose of the personal qualifications statement is for you to provide information on how your education and experience relate to the requirements and duties of the position. There is no form to complete. Applicants are requested to provide their personal qualifications statement by uploading a document, the same way as you do for your cover letter.