Instructor​/Coordinator, Child Development Center Tenure-Track Fresno City College

Posting Details

Posting Number: AA

Title:

Instructor/Coordinator, Child Development Center (Full-Time, Tenure-Track)
Campus:
Fresno City College

Start Date:

07/01/2026

At Fresno City College we value the ability to serve students from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities, and orientations. We prioritize applicants who demonstrate an understanding of the benefits a diverse student population brings to a community college. The successful candidate will be an equity‑minded leader committed to student success achieved through collaboration with faculty, staff, administration, students, and community partners.

• Understand the importance of holding ourselves accountable as educators for closing equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices.
• Reframe inequities as a problem of practice and view the elimination of inequities as an individual and collective responsibility.
• Encourage positive race‑consciousness and embrace human difference.
• Support institutional practices that develop and sustain culturally responsive teaching and learning environments.
• Strategically build support for and participation in equity‑related initiatives across internal and external communities.

• Teach a full schedule of developmental and transfer‑level Child Development courses as assigned.
• Assist in the planning, coordination, directing, and supervising the activities and staff of the Child Development Center.
• Supervise the laboratory experience of child development students in a developmentally appropriate demonstration site environment for preschool and toddler age children.
• Coordinate student observation and participation.
• Develop program goals for children, parents, and students.
• Administer the daily requirements of the Child Development Center.
• Supervise the Child and Adult Care Food Program.
• Administer all state, local, and federal categorical grant programs; prepare applications for child‑care funding and early child‑care and education program management.
• Assure maintenance of a physical environment that conforms to the State Department of Social Services licensing standards of health and safety.
• Conduct center inspections to assure compliance.
• Communicate with parents, staff, and administrators related to center operations and student progress.
• Discuss issues or concerns with parents.
• Enroll children, maintain appropriate records in compliance with district requirements, licensing regulations, and other legal provisions.
• Ensure availability of appropriate materials and equipment for staff and children’s use.
• Learn and apply emerging technologies and advances, such as computer software applications, to perform duties efficiently.
• Train, supervise, evaluate, and direct the work of the center staff.
• Coordinate and support relationships for inclusion with collaborating onsite agencies.
• Coordinate and conduct staff meetings and in‑service training.
• Assist in the placement, guidance, and supervision of students from instructional programs.
• Participate in appropriate professional development activities.
• Participate in institutional activities including staff development.
• Meet regularly with discipline/division peers.
• Participate on community advisory committees related to early care and education initiatives.
• Prepare grant proposals for external funding to support center operations.
• Serve on and attend department, college, and district committees as needed.
• Participate in program review, student learning outcome development, and assessment to improve student learning.
• Teach assignments in a variety of instructional settings and times, including evening and/or weekends, online or off‑campus, and large‑group instruction classes; may include off‑campus instruction at local high schools for dual enrollment.
• Fulfill all duties and responsibilities of instructors as required by Administrative Regulation 7122.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Evidence of responsiveness to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college…