4/28/2025 5:00 PM Pacific
Date Posted 3/18/2025 Contact Human ResourcesNumber of Openings Not Specified Salary Pay Range
81401 - 117364 Annually Length of Work Year See Job Description Employment Type Full Time Job Description / Essential Elements: Print
Instructor, Viticulture and Winery Technology
Position Type: Faculty
Position Code: 3FSM09
FTE: 1.0
Pay Rate (or Annual Salary): $81,401 - $117,364 /annual
Job Location: Las Positas College, 3000 Campus Hill Dr., Livermore, CA 94551
Department: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Job Summary:
The Las Positas Community
Las Positas College provides an inclusive, learning-centered, equity-focused environment that offers educational opportunities and support for completion of students’ transfer, degree, and career-technical goals while promoting lifelong learning. At Las Positas College we know that equity will be achieved by changing the impacts of structural racism, ableism, homophobia, and systematic poverty on student success and access to higher education, achieved through continuous evaluation and improvement of all services. We believe in a high-quality education focused on learning and an inclusive, culturally-relevant environment that meets the diverse needs of all our students and staff. ?
Equity is parity in student educational outcomes; it places belonging for students of color and disproportionately impacted students at center focus. Our prized and emerging equity efforts include Puente, Umoja, ConnectUp, Brother 2 Brother, Sister 2 Sister, Black Student Union, Presidential Task Force on Systemic and Institutionalized Racism, the Presidential Speaker Series, Black Education Association, UndocuAlly Taskforce, curriculum reviews and a linguistic justice curriculum.
Located in Livermore, Las Positas College is becoming an institution that reflects the diversity in California. We are a learning-centered institution focused on excellence and student success, and are fully committed to supporting all Tri-Valley residents in their quest for education and advancement.
Joining Our College Community
We seek equity-minded applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits diversity brings to an educational community. We look for applicants who:
1. Value and intentionally promote diversity and consciousness of difference 2. Demonstrate cultural humility and an ongoing desire to improve cultural competence
3. Are dedicated to addressing issues of social justice 4. Accept their shared role and responsibility in addressing opportunity and achievement gaps experienced by students 5. Have experience and success in closing student equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices, or are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about implementing practices that achieve these goals 6. Actively seek to identify, disrupt, and remove institutional and/or systemic barriers that adversely impact historically marginalized communities 7. Empower the underrepresented and underserved 8. Foster students’ potential to become global citizens and socially responsible leaders 9. Believe that all people have the right to an education and work environment free from fear, harassment, or discrimination
The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District is seeking an Instructor, Viticulture and Winery Technology for Las Positas College in Livermore, California.
Representative Duties:
1. Ability to teach all lower-division levels of viticulture and winery technology courses including the following: Introduction to Viticulture, Vineyard Operations, Introduction to Enology, Applied Enology, Winery Operations, Wine Science, Soil Science, Integrated Pest Management, Sensory Analysis of Wines, and sensory appreciation of a variety of global wine regions;
2. A commitment to student learning and an enthusiastic attitude toward teaching;
3. Ability to adapt instructional techniques to accommodate varied learning styles and a variety of teaching modalities, including lectures, hands-on labs in the campus vineyard, hands-on labs in the campus winery, sensory labs, and online learning;
4. Knowledge of teaching methods that include critical thinking and problem-solving strategies, integration of vineyard and winery facilities into student learning, and integration of vineyard and winery equipment into instruction;
5. Ability to perform the sensory analysis of wines of various production styles, varieties, origins and conditions including identifying flaws and faults;
6. Ability to serve as the Program Coordinator and primary point of contact (liaison) with local wine industry;
7. Commitment to working successfully as a team with other faculty, students, interns, and wine industry colleagues;
8. Commitment to contribute to the total operation of the on-campus 4-acre vineyard, on-campus teaching winery – Campus Hill Winery at Las Positas, the Department, Division, and College.
9. Demonstrated ability to strengthen partnerships with the local community (e.g., wine industry, local wineries, winegrowers’ association, educational partners, etc.)
10. Commitment to representation and outreach to industry and educational partners as related to program innovation and workforce development, including serving on the Viticulture and Enology advisory board, serving on the Las Positas College Viticulture & Enology Foundation, and collaborating with industry partners to support quality wine making;
11. Commitment to participate in professional activities that may include, but are not limited to: development of curriculum and new instructional approaches, committee membership, industry association meetings, and staff meetings.
12. Commitment to working with other STEM faculty and staff to increase support and success for students.
13. Commitment to participate in recruitment, retention, completion, internship, and articulation activities that support student success.
14. Ability to seek and support personal creativity and professional growth and demonstrate career objectives consistent with the mission of Las Positas College.
15. Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form;
16. Ability to teach early morning, late afternoon, evening, weekend, hybrid and fully online, and/or off-campus when scheduled as part of the regular teaching assignment;
17. Evidence of sensitivity to and an understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, including those with physical or learning disabilities.
Minimum Education and Experience:
Any bachelor’s degree or higher and two years of professional experience, OR any associate degree and six years of professional experience OR equivalent
License or Certificate:
1. Possession of an appropriate, valid driver’s license.
2. Ability to drive college vehicles, including truck, ATV , tractor, and forklift
3. Ability to obtain a Forklift Certificate within the first month of employment
4. Ability to obtain CA Alcohol Beverage Control Responsible Beverage Server (RBS ) training and certificate with first month of employment.
5. Possession of a Pesticide Applicator’s Certificate
6. Ability to pass a Criminal Background Clearance for CA Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC ) and Federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB ).
You must upload all applicable transcripts, credentials, and/or certificates required to meet minimum qualification for the position for which you are applying. Any degrees earned outside the United States must have an official US Evaluation (course by course) of the transcripts and must be submitted with the application. The US evaluation must be done by a member of the NACES (https://www.naces.org/members). In the case that the file you are uploading is too large or you do not have the transcripts readily available, please upload a document in place stating you will be sending the documents to the CLPCCD District Office, Office of Human Resources, 7600 Dublin Boulevard, 3rd Floor, and Dublin, CA 94568 or by fax (925) 485-5254 by the closing date.
*Degrees in Progress: To be conferred on or before July 1, 2025 will be considered, provided that the applicant also submits (1) an up-to-date transcript, (2) a photocopy of the degree requirement from the school catalog, and (3) proof of current course(s) and enrollment. Please provide your explanation and background material by using the optional document upload called “Other Document”. If you are unable to upload the above, please upload a document in its place and state you will be sending the documents to the Office of Human Resources, 7600 Dublin Boulevard, 3rd Floor, Dublin, CA 94568, by 5:00 p.m. (PST ) on the closing date.
Applicants applying under the “Equivalent provision” must provide details that explain at time of application how their academic preparation is the equivalent of the degree listed above. Please provide your explanation by using the optional document upload called “Equivalency Statement”.
Minimum Qualifications:
Evidence of a sensitivity to and an understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, including those with physical and learning disabilities.
Desirable Qualifications:
1. Teaching experience in Viticulture and Enology at the college level, with an emphasis on lower-division courses;
2. Direct experience as a vineyard manager or winemaker for a commercial winery;
3. Evidence of a strong commitment to remain current in the wine industry, with an emphasis on quality wine making;
4. Demonstrated ability to operate and maintain winery and/or vineyard laboratory equipment and facilities;
5. Demonstrated knowledge of local, state, and federal wine premises compliance requirements.
Job Work Schedule: This position is full-time, tenure track, beginning Fall 2025. Employment will begin on or about August 14, 2025.
Physical Demands and Working Environment:
Ability to meet the usual and customary physical demands of work in the wine industry including: lifting 50 pounds, carrying, pushing and/or pulling, climbing ladders and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, walking on uneven surfaces, and significant finger dexterity. Generally, the job requires 30% sitting, 30% walking, and 40% standing. The instructional labs are performed under some temperature extremes, including work outside without protection from the weather, and work inside a working winery.
INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES WHO ARE UNABLE TO CARRY OUT THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES OF THE POSITION WILL RECEIVE REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS TO ENABLE THEM TO PERFORM THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITION .
Posting Number: F165P
Open Date: 03/17/2025
Close Date: 04/28/2025
Open Until Filled: No
Special Instructions to Applicants:
The Board of Trustees has updated Board Policy 7330 to incorporate information on COVID vaccination requirements, which are currently suspended. Accordingly, employee(s) must comply with the Board Policy found at:
http://districtazure.clpccd.org/policies/files/docs/BP7330.pdf.
Notification to Applicants:
The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District reserves the right to close or not fill any advertised position.
Instructions for Personal Qualifications Statement:
The purpose of the personal qualifications statement is for you to provide information on how your education and experience relate to the requirements and duties of the position. There is no form to complete. Applicants are requested to provide their personal qualifications statement by uploading a document, the same way as you do for your cover letter.
To apply, visit https://apptrkr.com/6084437
It is the policy of this District to provide equal opportunity in all areas of employment practices and to assure that there shall be no discrimination against any person on the basis of sex, ancestry, age, marital status, race, religious creed, mental disability, medical condition (including HIV and AIDS ), color, national origin, physical disability, family or sexual preference status and other similar factors in compliance with Title IX, Sections 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, other federal and state non-discrimination regulations, and its own statements of philosophy of objectives. The District encourages the filing of applications by both sexes, ethnic minorities, and the disabled.
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