Contract Faculty - Talent Pool - Food Handler

What Are We About?

Fleming is located in the heart of the Kawartha Lakes Region in Central Ontario, Traditional Mississauga Anishinaabe Territory and covered by the Williams Treaties, 1923... a beautiful place to live and work, surrounded by natural beauty and a mere 90 minutes north-east of Toronto. The College’s 6,800 full-time and 10,000 part-time students, including hundreds of international students from countries around the world, attend at campus locations in Peterborough, Lindsay, Haliburton and Cobourg. Fleming offers more than 100 full-time programs in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Fine Arts, General Arts and Science, Technology, Skilled Trades, Community Development, Health, Business, and Justice as well as other Continuing Education courses.

We are also extremely proud of our more than 85,000 Fleming alumni who are contributing to their communities in the region, across the province and around the world.

What This Position is About:

Experience success at Fleming, where we provide a unique and innovative learning environment for our students. As a Contract Faculty member, you will play a key role by promoting academic excellence, developing an effective learning environment, and designing, teaching, revising, and updating curriculum. Your previous working experiences will provide a broad range of practical knowledge to enhance the student learning experience. Contract Faculty may teach in teams or independently and develop/deliver curriculum in a variety of ways including face-to-face (lectures, seminars, labs) and online.

We are currently recruiting Contract Faculty for the School of Trades and Technology – Continuing Education. As a facilitator in Continuing Education, you will be expected to contribute to support learner success and lead experiences within the specific discipline. Your passion for and experience in helping learners develop technical and applied skills will ensure that training participants are equipped for changing workplace needs.

• Providing academic leadership within teaching teams to ensure the consistent delivery of assigned courses;
• Designing, updating and teaching curriculum;
• Demonstrating teaching excellence through proven adaptability with diverse learners;
• Creating a learning environment that motivates and engages learners, using a variety of teaching methodologies and types of delivery, including lectures, labs, eLearning, and applied learning;
• Contributing to cross-College discussions about curriculum, to support our community integration initiatives;
• Fostering our important connection to industry, across Peterborough and the Kawarthas, Northumberland County and beyond.

Your demonstrated experience and proficiency teaching traditional, online and/or blended delivery-type Continuing Education courses would be an asset. This position may involve working fully or partially remote, and some projects may require travel to off-site locations to provide training. All employees are periodically required on campus.

What We Are Looking For:

Food Safety and/or Food Service Facilitator: You possess a minimum of an Ontario College Diploma or undergraduate degree (food or nutrition-related education is preferred), five or more years’ minimum experience working in a food preparation-related work environment, and a current TrainCan (or equivalent) Food Safety Train the Trainer Certification. Recent experience as a Public Health Inspector would be a definite asset.

Essential Criteria

You will have demonstrated experience teaching adult learners within the last five years. Preference will be given to candidates with teaching, curriculum design, innovative development and delivery experience, either at the high school, post-secondary or corporate/industry levels. Experience in adult learning and developing/delivering educational materials in alternative formats is a definite asset. We desire candidates with evidence of commitment and recent participation in ongoing professional development.

• Master’s degree
• Bachelor of Education / Ontario College of Teachers Qualification
• Masters of Arts in Adult Education / Masters of Education

This role requires the incumbent to demonstrate accountability and responsiveness to learners, colleagues and the community. Additionally, your experience illustrates your self-motivation, superior communication and interpersonal skills, critical thinking and problem solving, as well as proficiency in a variety of current computer applications.

Salary Range

As per the non-full-time academic salary grid.

How To Apply
Internal Candidates: apply through My Campus by visiting the Career Opportunities page.
External candidates: apply by visiting our website: http://www.FlemingCollege.ca/Careers.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Fleming College is committed to building diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible learning and working environments. We welcome those who would contribute to the further diversification of our Staff, our Faculty and our Administration including, but not limited to, women, racialized persons, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity to apply.

We believe in and promote the rights of all persons with disabilities and commit to ensuring accommodations available throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process to applicants with disabilities. If selected to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, please inform our Human Resources staff of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require to ensure your equal participation.