Lead Instructor, ESOL
Salary
$48,734.40 - $63,356.80 Annually
Location
Prescott Campus, Prescott, AZ
Job Type
Full Time
Job Number
2026-00224
Department
ABE Program
Opening Date
09/10/2026
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Description of Position
The ESOL Lead Instructor provides high-quality English language instruction to adult learners while serving as the instructional lead for the ESOL program. This position teaches assigned classes, supports participant success and persistence, promotes workforce and postsecondary transitions, and assists with the implementation of evidence-based instructional practices across ESOL services. The ESOL Lead Instructor guides instructional practices, supports instructor onboarding and mentoring, shares instructional resources, and promotes continuous improvement across ESOL programming.
Key Responsibilities:
ESOL Instruction and Instructional Leadership (65%)
- Teach assigned ESOL classes in a variety of instructional modalities, including in-person, HyFlex, hybrid, and virtual formats.
- Teach daytime and evening ESOL classes during each instructional term.
- Develop and deliver standards-aligned instruction that integrates English language acquisition, digital literacy, workforce readiness, and civics education.
- Monitor participant progress and provide individualized academic support to promote measurable skill gains and educational attainment.
- Maintain attendance records, instructional documentation, participant records, and program data in accordance with Adult Education requirements.
- Serve as the instructional lead for ESOL programming by guiding instructional practices, supporting instructors' onboarding and mentoring, sharing instructional resources, and promoting evidence-based teaching strategies.
- Collaborate with Adult Education leadership to support program improvement initiatives, professional learning, and instructional consistency across ESOL services.
Student Success and Transition Services (20%)
- Support participant retention, persistence, and educational goal attainment through regular communication, outreach, and follow-up.
- Assist participants with educational, workforce, and postsecondary planning.
- Connect participants to college, career, workforce, and community resources.
- Support participant transitions to workforce training, IET programs, postsecondary education, and employment opportunities.
- Collaborate with internal and external partners to promote participant success and pathway advancement.
Adult Basic Education (ABE/HSE) Workforce and Transition Support (15%)
- Collaborate with HSE instructional staff to support workforce readiness, digital literacy, career exploration, and postsecondary transition activities.
- Assist with HSE participant recruitment, orientations, persistence initiatives, TABE testing, and transition planning activities.
- Provide instructional support related to employability skills, college readiness, workforce preparation, and career pathway development.
- Support implementation of workforce-aligned instructional activities that increase participant readiness for employment, training, and postsecondary education.
- Assist with special projects and initiatives that promote participant persistence, credential attainment, and successful transitions.
Minimum Expectations & Requirements
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Education, TESOL, ESOL, Adult Education, Linguistics, or related field.
- Hold an Arizona Adult Education Teacher Certification or the ability to obtain certification.
Experience:
- Minimum one year of teaching English language learners, adult learners, or related populations
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Demonstrated knowledge of adult learning principles and effective instructional strategies.
- Ability to utilize educational technology and online learning platforms.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule, including evening hours.
- Ability to travel to various Yavapai College campuses throughout Yavapai County.
- Regular attendance is an essential job function as it demonstrates dependability towards the performance of job duties.
Preferred Skills & Abilities
Education:
- Master's degree in TESOL, ESOL, Adult Education, Linguistics, Education, or related field.
Experience:
- Experience leading and teaching adult ESOL in a Title II Adult Education program.
- Experience with TABE and adult education assessment procedures.
- Experience with workforce preparation, IELCE, career pathways, or IET programming.
- Experience with workforce preparation, IELCE, career pathways, or IET programming.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Bilingual English/Spanish communication skills preferred
Essential Functions
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements and competencies listed represent the required knowledge, skill, and ability. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee must frequently use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. In addition, the employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
Yavapai College offers its full-time employees a comprehensive benefit package:
HEALTH/LIFE BENEFITS
- Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance: Colleges partial payment of premiums toward medical with pharmacy and/or dental plan options picked by employees for themselves (and eligible dependents)
- Flexible Spending Accounts: Pre-tax pay deductions to use for eligible medical or dependent daycare costs
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Counseling and referral services for employees and their immediate families for depression, stress, family/marital conflict, and alcohol/drug issues
- Vision: Provides an amount per plan year for eligible expenses such as vision exams, lenses, frames, prescription sunglasses, and contact lenses
- Life Insurance: The College provides Basic Life Insurance coverage at twice of the employees annual salary. Dependents have automatic coverage of $2,000/spouse and $1,000/per child if enrolled in medical plan.
- Voluntary Individual And Family Term Life Insurance: Additional term life insurance coverage available for employee, spouse and children.
- Other Insurance Coverage: Short Term and Long Term Disability (replacement income insurance), and Workers Compensation (compensation, medical expenses and death benefits for on-the-job injuries or occupational diseases)
RETIREMENT BENEFITS
- Retirement Benefits: Arizona State Retirement System or Optional Retirement Plan, and Social Security (which provides a basic retirement annuity based on age and years of contribution)
- Tax Deferred Annuities: Employees contributions to designated tax-deferred annuities
- Unemployment Compensation: Employees who are laid off or terminated may receive benefits if covered wages meet requirements
LEAVE BENEFITS
- Vacation : 10 days of Vacation leave annually. NOTE: For employees who work an amount of contractual days, there will be no earned vacation.
- Sick Leave: 12 days sick leave annually. NOTE: Employees working less than full time or an amount of contractual days will receive a proration of sick leave.
- Personal Leave: Use of up to three personal leave days per year which are charged against accumulated sick leave to take care of items of personal business
- Other Leave: Bereavement leave, Civic Duty Leave (Jury duty, active military duty, military training), and Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- Holidays: 29 days during the year as paid holidays for full-time employees which include Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, 3 days at Thanksgiving, Winter/year end break (10 days), Martin Luther King Day, Spring Break, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, and Fall Break.
OTHER BENEFITS
- Breaking Bread: 32 meal swipes for use at the Prescott Campus Eatery. All Other Campuses and Sites receive a $140 credit each semester (fall and spring) to be used at the Open Market on campus/center
- Spanish Interpreter Incentive Program: Employees interested in additional compensation for their Spanish speaking skills agree to assist YC by attending two recruiting events and being available for Spanish Interpretation needs as they arise. Compensation is added to the employees regular pay at the rate of $175 per month. Employees that are interested in participating let your HR Business partner know, so they can schedule you for the ACTFL language proficiency test at the YC testing center.
- Direct Deposit: Paychecks deposited directly into the employees bank account(s)
- Tuition Waiver: Eligible Full-time Faculty and Staff, their legally married spouse, and eligible dependents may enroll in a partial or full program of coursework without payment of tuition, exceptions may be lab fees and market-based additional fees
- Sabbatical: Faculty, professional, and administrative staff may apply for compensated leave of up to a year after six years of continuous service
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Additional Benefits and Services: Local community discounts to faculty and staff, computer loan program, mail and notary service.
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Employer Yavapai College
Address 1100 E. Sheldon Street
Prescott, Arizona, 86301
Website http://www.yc.edu/hr