College teacher job description

This post includes 3 parts: duties list, job qualification and job description writing tips for College teacher in details. A complete job description concludes College teacher key duties/responsibilities, College teacher job qualifications (knowledge, education, skills, abilities, experience…KSA model) and other ones such as daily tasks, key activities, key/core competencies, job functions/purpose…

I. List of College teacher duties:

1. High energy level and ability to engage students
2. Excellent presentation skills
3. Ability to learn our methodology and strategies quickly
4. Active and ongoing classroom management
5. Receive and respond to ongoing training, development, and feedback
6. Mentoring skills to help guide students of all levels achieve their highest scores on "test day"
7. Respond to or escalate student related issues as they arise
8. Partner with our service and academics support staff to ensure student needs are met
9. 3.0 college GPA or minimum 80th percentile score on the SAT or ACT
10. Learn and retain knowledge related to all aspects of the SAT and ACT including knowledge of test format, dates offered, test enrollment process, and admissions timeline

II. List of College teacher qualifications

1. BA/BS preferred
2. 3.0 college GPA or minimum 80th percentile score on the SAT or ACT
3. Previous training/teaching experience preferred
4. Self-starter
5. Evening and weekend availability required

III. Tips to write job description

1. Too-long job description:

Looking at a too-long job description can frighten the candidates off and drive the away. A job description, no matter how important the job is, should not be included in more than 3 pages. If one focuses on too many things at a time, he shall definitely lose focus on the main items and get overwhelmed by the remaining; So, keep it concisely.

2. Too-short job description:

While too-long can be a problem, too-short is more a problem. It will ruin the meaning of the job description. A too-short one means it lacks necessary details and therefore, the candidate will not be able to understand while reading it.

3. Listing unnecessary functions or job duties:

Just classifying these into the “others” category will save you a lot of effort and space. On the other hand, the job description will become more dilute and easy to be neglected.

4. Key functions

Not listing key functions as required for the job can be a fatal mistake to a job description.

5. Grammar and spelling

Poor grammar and having spelling errors can ruin the job description, too. Never think that as you are the employer, you may have the right to make grammar or spelling errors while requires other not to. A job description with such errors is easily to be mistaken as a fake or ghost ads; as a result, the candidate will turn away from it.

6. Not specific enough:

Be specific and concise; if you don’t address the specific, then what the job description is for. It is for the candidate to understand just exactly what he needs to do or needs to have. Lacking details can confuse the candidates very well.

7. Not having the job description reviewed by others:

This is also a common mistake. One may be subject to bias, but more than one, especially with the help of those external advisor, the job description can be more perfect.

8. Using buzzwords or abbreviations:

In fact, it is not necessary at all to use such in a job description.

9. Using slang or legal words:

Just use common wording to communicate with others and don’t do anything extraordinarily.

10. Not updating the job description:

The same job may require different duties and responsibilities in different times, so, you cannot use the same job description for 2 different times.