Job description

Salary: $67,275.00 – $77,625.00 Annually

Location: Main Campus – Toms River, NJ

Job Type: Full-Time

Job Number: 202301067

Division: Academic Affairs

Department: School of Arts & Humanities

Opening Date: 12/19/2025

Closing Date: 1/31/2026 11:59 PM Eastern

The Position

Ocean County College is looking for a passionate, collaborative, and innovative full-time lecturer to lead our newly redesigned Media Production program beginning 2027 Academic Year with a start date of July 2026. The College seeks someone who has the experience and enthusiasm for media education, film, and television as well as the capacity to leverage the college’s facilities, resources, and network to elevate the footprint of media production at OCC and across Ocean County. With a full-scale TV studio, production lab, and top-of-the-line equipment, OCC wants someone who can grow and develop the program to make the College an educational leader in the industry.

This position provides instructional and administrative services including teaching, adjunct mentoring and observations, program assessments, committee and college governance membership, CTE funding assessment and advisory committee participation, and other relevant duties. A 12-credit equivalent workload is required for administrative supervisory duties.

Classification: College Lecturer

Instructional Duration: Annual – 12 months
Start Date: July 1st

Modality: face-to-face, hyflex, video connected, and hybrid.

What You Will Do

1. Teaches thirty-six (36) credit hours of classes annually: fifteen (15) credit hours each fall and spring and six (6) credit hours during the summer sessions.
2. Collaborates and coordinates with college, community, and industry partners.
3. Helps develop opportunities for work-based learning and pathways for industry experience.
4. CTE funding assessment and advisory committee participation.
5. Conducts academic assessments for developing or improvement of Media Production.
6. Conducts classroom observations, evaluations, and mentoring of adjunct faculty.
7. Contributes to student success by being actively engaged in strategic planning; the accreditation process, orientation, student advising, commencement, and a variety of committees, clubs, events, college and community liaison initiatives.
8. Related projects and initiatives.

The Successful Candidate Must Have

1. Master’s Degree in a relevant academic discipline (e.g., Communication, Media, Film); OR Master’s Degree with eighteen (18) graduate credits in the academic discipline; OR Master’s Degree in different field with at least five (5) years of related professional experience and/or professional certification and licensure.
2. Two years’ full-time teaching experience in the field or at least six (6) semesters of part-time teaching experience at the college level.
3. Experience teaching in a diverse environment to include students from diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
4. Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Even Better If You Have

1. Direct industry experience in the areas of media, television, and/or film.
2. One or more years of experience using instructional technology or teaching online.
3. One year of experience in evaluating teaching effectiveness and conducting classroom observations and evaluations or supervisory experience including the evaluation of subordinates.
4. Two years’ experience assisting with curriculum and program development.

Ocean County College is an EEO/AA/ADA employer.

How to apply

Please Note: To be considered for this position, applicants must upload transcripts as part of their application. Incomplete applications, including those without transcripts, will not be reviewed.