Contract Class Instructor

Contract Instructor

The City of Irvine seeks candidates with solid instructional skills to enhance our Community and Library Services Contract Class offerings. Contract Class Instructors have unique skills or expertise and experience sharing their knowledge with members of the public in a class or workshop setting. This position is a temporary contract without benefits. Typical courses will take place 1-3 days a week, for 1-4 hours a day, and will run for multiple weeks. Courses are created quarterly. The City will have the option to continue course offerings into subsequent quarters. Summer camps are held June through mid-August. A typical camp runs five days a week, half day, and for one week. The City will have the option to continue course offerings into subsequent quarters.

Specific Areas of Interest:

• Photography - Darkroom or Digital (Teen and adult classes to be offered)
• Printmaking and Letterpress
• Printmaking for teens
• Culinary specialty skills or cuisines
• Senior (50+) focused fitness classes
• Senior (50+) focused technology classes
• Pets
• Tennis
• Pickleball
• Jewelry/Metal Arts - Fabrication (classes and workshops, beginning and advanced levels)
• Knitting/Crochet classes
• Contractors who have their own facility space to teach classes

Areas of interest that may be new or unique approaches to classes already offered will be considered. Unless the class proposal integrates unique approaches or aspects, the following areas will not be considered, as the City is meeting demand for these class types: Martial Arts such as Tae Kwon Do (TKD), Kung Fu, Shotokan, Tai Chi, and Karate; STEM classes; kindergarten readiness; yoga for all age groups; youth dance instruction or performance; financial literacy for adults; ballroom dance for adults; Pilates; foreign language; tennis, pickleball; and Zumba.

Please review the Contract Instructor Handbook and the guidelines below before submitting a course proposal:

• Review our current quarter's Community and Library Services Inside Irvine to see if your proposed course is already being offered. You can view our brochure online at yourirvine.org.
• For fine arts, review our current quarter's Art Beat newsletter to see if your proposed class is already being offered.
• For senior (50+) programs, review our current quarter's Senior Connection newsletter to see if your proposed class is already being offered.
• Please note that workshops and classes cannot be designed to sell or recommend products from your business or promote your consulting or investing services.