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Salary: $69,380.72 – $106,542.71 Annually
Closing Date/Time: 4/30/2026 4:00 PM Pacific
Job Type:
Location: Main Campus – Oroville, CA
Department:

Full-time, Tenure Track (177 Day 10 Month)
$69,380.72 – $106,542.71 per year
Probationary (Contract I) Member of Academic Faculty

Projected Timeline:

Anticipated Application Screening Period: May 4-7, 2026
Tentative First Interview Dates: May 2026
Tentative Second Interview Date: June 3, 2026
Tentative Start Date: August 1, 2026

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW:

The Butte College Nursing Program is seeking a highly organized full-time, tenure-track Registered Nursing (RN) Instructor in the Accelerated Track, beginning in the Fall 2026 term. This position requires Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) approval in Medical-Surgical Nursing. The 1-year Accelerated Registered Nursing Associate Degree program is offered once each calendar year beginning in January, and includes courses in Spring semester, Summer session, and Fall semester.

The successful candidate will provide classroom and clinical instruction within the Registered Nursing program. Classroom content may include any medical surgical topics. Clinical rotations will take place at our affiliate hospitals.

Teaching in the Butte College Nursing Program is a rewarding and meaningful experience, offering the opportunity to mentor students as they develop into competent, compassionate, and professional nurses prepared for successful careers in nursing.

POSITION DUTIES:
In addition to the representative duties below, the specific position is also responsible for:

  • Providing online theory and direct patient care clinical instruction in medical-surgical in the Accelerated Registered Nursing Associate Degree Program.
  • Supervising students’ direct patient care clinical experiences and virtual simulation experiences.
  • Evaluating and advising students in clinical and online classroom settings.
  • Assisting the RN Program Director and Department Chair with the coordination of curriculum, staff, facilities, and schedule for the Accelerated Registered Nursing Associate Degree Program.
  • Assisting the RN Program Director and Department Chair in securing and maintaining clinical sites for student placement throughout our service area.
  • Working cooperatively and effectively with department staff and clinical agencies to carry out the instructional plan of the Accelerated Registered Nursing Associate Degree Program.
  • Complying with Board of Registered Nursing requirements to maintain program approval and standards teaching lecture, skills lab, and clinical courses.
  • Must maintain standards and qualifications to teach at all clinical sites.

Representative Duties

The full-time college instructor is responsible for effective performance in the following areas:

A. General Scope of Responsibilities

  1. Excellence in teaching and instruction.
  2. Maintenance of professional growth and academic currency.
  3. Carrying out of area, departmental and/or program responsibilities.
  4. Contribution to the College as a whole in the form of College-wide service.
  5. Development and assessment of student learning outcomes.

B. Teaching and Instruction

  1. Instructor plans for and is continually well prepared to teach.
  2. Instructor provides organized delivery of instruction.
  3. Instructor communicates respectfully to students and encourages contact.
  4. Instruction is consistent with the stated and approved outcomes of the course.
  5. Instruction is relevant to the course.
  6. Instructor shows interest in the subject matter and student learning.
  7. Instructor uses strategies designed to foster student engagement with the content.
  8. Instructor uses standards of student evaluation that are clear, fair and followed consistently.
  9. Instructor requires and evaluates levels of student effort sufficient to develop mastery of the subject or skills in the course.
  10. Instructor grades and returns student work, assignments and tests in a reasonable period of time.
  11. Instructor makes effective use of teaching aids, instructional methods and materials required of students (e.g., texts, manuals, etc.).
  12. Instructor is an effective teacher.
  13. Instructor prepares complete and timely course syllabi.
  14. Instructor continually evaluates, updates and revises course content and instructional methods and materials.
  15. Instructor coordinates course contents and instructional methods with other teachers in the program/discipline.
  16. Instructor meets and assists students during office hours, by appointment or at other reasonable times.
  17. Instructor initiates and carries through with improvements to course contents and classroom teaching methods.

C. Professional Growth and Currency

  1. Instructor demonstrates examples of activities which show a pattern of academic, professional, and/or technical updating or currency.

D. Area or Departmental Responsibilities

  1. Instructor is knowledgeable about and abides by College, Area and Department policies and procedures.
  2. Instructor meets deadlines and time targets including deadlines for reports, grades and paperwork.
  3. Instructor orders instructional materials, equipment and textbooks with sufficient lead times.
  4. Instructor assists Chair in evaluating and revising course schedules.
  5. Instructor collaborates to determine equitable course assignments.
  6. Instructor provides assistance to other full-time, part-time and/or new instructors.
  7. Instructor participates in departmental plans and activities with others.
  8. Instructor helps develop departmental budgets.
  9. Instructor monitors expenditures to keep within authorized budget spending appropriations.
  10. Instructor exercises good judgment in the use of and/or management of facilities, equipment and supplies.
  11. Instructor regularly attends assigned meetings.
  12. Instructor is punctual to assigned meetings.
  13. Instructor works collegially with faculty peers, classified staff and administration.
  14. Instructor performs their fair share of outside-of-class departmental duties and responsibilities, including contributing to unit plan and program review processes.
  15. Instructor initiates and/or participates in overall department-wide program development and curriculum improvements, maintenance, evaluation, revision and/or expansion.

E. College-wide Service
Instructor demonstrates a pattern of College-wide service, including one or more of the following:

  1. Serve on College committees.
  2. Serves on College committees and project teams.
  3. Serves as a sponsor to student clubs and organizations.
  4. Participates in faculty/college governance.
  5. Participates on special project teams or ad hoc committees.

Qualifications/Requirements

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Master’s in nursing; AND
  • You must possess the following for the Board of Registered Nursing:
  1. Current valid unencumbered license to practice as a professional Registered Nurse in the State of California.
  2. Direct patient care experience within the previous five (5) years in the nursing area to which they are assigned, which can be met by:
    • (a) One (1) year’s continuous, full-time or its equivalent experience providing direct patient care as a registered nurse in the designated nursing area; OR
    • (b) One (1) academic year of registered nurse level clinical teaching experience in the designated nursing area or its equivalent that demonstrates clinical competency; AND
  3. Completion of at least one (1) years’ experience teaching courses related to registered nursing or completion of a post-baccalaureate course which includes practice in teaching registered nursing.

DIVERSITY AND EQUITY QUALIFICATIONS:
Demonstrated understanding of and responsiveness to the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds that characterize community college students in a manner specific to the position.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Ability to teach in multiple modalities, including but not limited to online theory, in person clinical, and virtual simulation.
  • Willingness to acquire Board of Registered Nursing approval to teach other specialty areas of nursing as needed.
  • Possess a strong working knowledge of computer-based technology to enhance student learning.
  • Demonstrate commitment to excellence in teaching and the ability to motivate students to learn.
  • Strong working knowledge of Medical-Surgical clinical nursing skills.
  • Experience with or willingness to explore innovative teaching methodologies including the use of technology in the classroom and distance education.
  • Experience with Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Electronic Medication Record (EMR) administration and documentation.
  • Awareness and acceptance of the significance of culture and diversity and its impacts on student success.
  • Experience in teaching clinical and online classroom settings.

PRE-EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS:

  1. Education Code 87408.6 states that no person shall be initially employed by a community college district in an academic or classified position unless the person has submitted to an examination within the past sixty (60) days to determine that he or she is free of active tuberculosis.
  2. As a condition of employment, the District requires that you provide fingerprints prior to beginning work. You may be fingerprinted at Butte College Human Resources by appointment, or you may be fingerprinted at another agency. Should you be fingerprinted at another agency, the rolling fee charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the fingerprint report is the employee’s responsibility at the time of printing.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR APPLICANTS

Application Tips for Success

For helpful tips and guidance on navigating our application submission and recruitment process, please refer to the document below.

Travel and Relocation Accommodations

For candidates traveling more than 80 miles to attend an onsite interview at Butte College, you may be eligible for travel reimbursement. And if hired, consider our relocation incentives below.

Butte Glenn Community College District (BGCCD) IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER: To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Butte Glenn Community College District is committed to creating a diverse workforce focused on equity, inclusion, and accessibility for all faculty, staff, administrators, managers, and students. The District is dedicated to building an environment that supports our diverse student populations providing opportunities to mentor, encourage, and prepare our students to be successful in the world and expose them to global perspectives. Our District community of professionals is devoted to enriching our students’ lives by bringing to light a variety of ways to engage and discover their individual and collective paths through education.

BGCCD is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity. It is the District’s policy to ensure that all qualified applicants for employment and employees have full and equal access to employment opportunities and are not subject to discrimination in any program or activity of the District on the basis of ethnic group identification, race, gender, color, language, accent, citizenship status, ancestry national origin, age, sex, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, parental status, marital status, veteran status, physical or mental disability or medical condition, or on the basis of these perceived characteristics.

The District reserves the right to modify, rescind or re-advertise this announcement without notification or to delay indefinitely the employment of a person for the position.

How to apply

To apply, visit: Website linked here (Download PDF reader).

  • All offers of employment are contingent upon the submission of official transcripts showing completion of the degree.