Part-time Human Resources Development Instructor (HRD) - Scotland/Richmond Correctional Institution

Richmond Community College • Hamlet, NC

12d • Onsite

About The Position

The Part-Time Human Resources Development (HRD) Instructor provides workforce readiness, life skills, career development, and reentry-focused instruction to adult learners in correctional facilities. The instructor supports students in developing the personal, interpersonal, and employability skills needed for transitions to employment, education, and community life. Instruction may cover communication, decision-making, problem-solving, conflict resolution, stress management, emotional self-awareness, personal responsibility, workplace success, career exploration, job readiness, goal setting, and reentry planning. The instructor creates a structured, supportive learning environment that encourages personal growth, positive choices, and workforce preparedness.

The position is based at correctional facilities (Scotland CI and/or Richmond CI). The successful applicant must pass a complete background check and be able to obtain and maintain facility clearance and comply with security requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution.
• Experience teaching, training, coaching, mentoring, facilitating groups, or working with adult learners.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and classroom management skills.
• Ability to establish professional boundaries while building rapport with students.
• Ability to work effectively with individuals from diverse educational, social, and cultural backgrounds.
• Ability to obtain and maintain correctional facility clearance and comply with all security requirements.
• Strong organizational, documentation, and time-management skills.
• Understanding of challenges faced by justice-involved individuals preparing for employment and community reentry.
• Ability to motivate and encourage students toward positive educational, personal, and employment outcomes.
• Skill in facilitating productive discussions on sensitive or challenging topics.
• Ability to manage classroom dynamics with professionalism, consistency, and respect.
• Commitment to student success, workforce development, and lifelong learning.
• Successful applicant must pass a complete background check.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, justice-involved, or other at-risk adult populations.
• Experience teaching adult education, workforce readiness, employability skills, life skills, HRD, reentry, or career development courses.
• Experience facilitating group instruction focused on personal growth, behavior change, goal achievement, or workforce preparation.
• Background in adult education, workforce development, corrections, probation/parole, criminal justice, human services, social services, rehabilitation, community-based organizations, recovery programs, military leadership, coaching, or mentoring.
• Experience using learner-centered and trauma-informed instructional practices.

Responsibilities

• Teach HRD, employability, life skills, career development, and reentry-focused courses in correctional settings.
• Facilitate instruction and activities covering career exploration and goal setting; employability and workplace success skills; communication and interpersonal skills; conflict resolution and problem-solving; decision-making and personal responsibility; stress management and coping strategies; job search, applications, and interviews; workplace expectations and professional behavior; and reentry preparation and transition planning.
• Establish and maintain a positive, respectful, and structured classroom environment.
• Adapt instructional methods to diverse adult learners using a variety of modalities, including technology to the extent possible.
• Maintain accurate attendance, student records, assessments, and required documentation, and meet deadlines.
• Communicate effectively with correctional staff and college personnel.
• Comply with correctional facility rules, regulations, and security procedures.
• Participate in required professional development, meetings, and training activities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level