Lab Instructor - Organic Chemistry
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Hours per week: 37.50
Weeks per year: 39
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday
Department Summary & Job Purpose:
The position is for a designated Organic Laboratory Instructor in the Chemistry Department and will consist of 4 laboratory sessions per week.
Core Job Duties and Responsibilities:
• Teach four afternoon laboratory sections of organic chemistry per week
• Assist in preparing materials for the laboratory
• Supervise, coordinate, and mentor student laboratory instructors and graders
Qualifications: A Bachelor’s degree in chemistry is required and an advanced degree welcome. Applicants should possess laboratory teaching experience, including familiarity with standard manipulative, preparative, chromatographic and spectroscopic methods.
Preferred Qualifications: Interested candidates should have a passion for laboratory teaching and experience mentoring students who are broadly diverse with regard to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and religion.
Physical Demands:
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Sufficient clarity of speech required includes those which permit the employee to discern verbal instructions and communicate effectively in person and by telephone.
• Employee talks in front of large groups of people on a daily basis.
• Employee speaks with students and other faculty daily by telephone, e-mail, or in person on a daily basis.
Working Conditions:
• Employee works in laboratory environments with a wide range of hazardous materials.
• Time will be spent in the laboratory, some prep and clean-up will be necessary.
Background Checks:
Mount Holyoke College is committed to providing a safe and secure environment, supported by qualified
employees that will allow all of its students, faculty, staff and those associated with them to successfully
carry out the mission of the college. As a condition of employment, the College will conduct appropriate
background checks for all new hires. Mount Holyoke has designated the Office of Human Resources as
the office responsible for ensuring that background checks (CORI, SORI, Credit History, & Driver
Credential) are completed and utilized in the hiring process and Five College Office of Compliance and
Risk Management as the office responsible for facilitating background checks as articulated in this policy.
Special Instructions for Applicants:
Apply online by application deadline. Application materials must include 1) a cover letter summarizing
interests and qualifications, 2) a complete resume or curriculum vitae, and 3) contact information for 3
professional references.
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Mount Holyoke College is an Equal Opportunity Employer.