Adjunct - AY27 Multimedia Instructor, Game and Art Design

Los Angeles Community College District•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

The Los Angeles Community College District is seeking adjunct instructors for a temporary assignment pool to teach courses across Multimedia Game Art & Design and Animation. Instructors may teach beginning, intermediate, and advanced courses in game art and design, animation, virtual production, visual development, and production. Assignments may take place in person on campus, online, in hybrid formats, or at dual-enrollment sites, and may be scheduled during the day, evening, or weekends. Summer and winter intersession teaching opportunities may also be available. This is an hourly academic position that includes office hours and may include department responsibilities such as participation in the eSports lab and Student Learning Outcome Committee. Instructors create inclusive learning environments, supervise student projects in production settings, advise and mentor students, assess performance, maintain accurate records, and use a variety of instructional tools and specialty software. The position requires collaboration, organization, and communication skills.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and two years of professional experience, or an associate’s degree and six years of professional experience.
Professional experience must be directly related to the teaching assignment.
Sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students.
Excellent collaboration, organization, and communication skills.
Medical certificate indicating fitness to instruct or associate with students, required after selection and before employment, at the applicant’s expense.
Employees must be fully vaccinated or have an approved exemption and provide vaccination status in accordance with LACCD policy.

Nice To Haves

Professional experience in game production, pre-visualization, or virtual production, emphasizing game level design and prototyping with Unreal Engine or a similar game engine.
Expertise in a wide range of game art and design and animation software.
Experience with 3D modeling applications such as Autodesk Maya, Blender, and Zbrush.
Experience teaching students or leading a team in a content production environment.
College-level teaching experience in specialty game art and design or animation courses.
Experience teaching underprepared students in a community college.
Experience teaching a diverse student population.
MFA in animation or game art and design.
Strong oral, written, and visual communication skills.
Networks in local, regional, or national professional or educational organizations.
Ability to establish partnerships with game or animation companies to build student internship or apprenticeship pathways.
Evidence of learner-centered teaching and ability to inspire, motivate, and empower students.
Experience using varied teaching strategies to accommodate diverse learning styles.

Responsibilities

Teach assigned classes in person on campus, in hybrid or online formats, or at dual-enrollment sites.
Teach beginning, intermediate, and advanced courses in game art and design, animation, virtual production, visual development, and production.
Create an engaging and inclusive learning environment.
Stay current in the discipline, teaching methods, and instructional technology.
Supervise student projects in a production environment.
Possibly participate in outreach to high schools, open houses, summer bootcamp, and dual-enrollment activities.
Advise and mentor game art and design and animation majors on career pathways, certificates, degrees, and transfer processes.
Assess student performance and maintain accurate rosters, grades, and other required records.
Use teaching tools such as software, video, audio technology, and specialty animation and game art design software.
Participate in department responsibilities, including the eSports lab and Student Learning Outcome Committee.