Contract Class Instructor

Location : Irvine, CA

Job Type : N / A

Job Number : 03738

Department : Community & Library Services

Division : Business & Suport Services / Contract Classes

Opening Date : 01 / 13 / 2025

Closing Date : 12 / 15 / 2025 5 : 00 PM Pacific

Description

Questions? Email jreal @cityofirvine.org

Please review the Contract Instructor Handbook for more information about opportunities and the application process.

The City of Irvine seeks candidates with solid instructional skills to enhance our Community 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
• Jewelry / Metal Arts - Fabrication (Intermediate and advanced classes to be offered) and casting
• Culinary specialty skills or cuisines
• Senior (50+) focused art classes
• Senior (50+) focused technology classes
• Pets
• Tennis
• Pickleball
• 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 :

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Minimum Training and Experience Required to Perform Essential Job Functions

Supplemental Information

City staff, as designated by the Director of Community Services, will review the proposals. Proposals will be considered for inclusion as a City-offered Contract Class program and promoted in the City Inside Irvine Guide, provided all criteria listed below have been met :

The City will not contract for courses that fall into any of the following :

The revenue for courses held at City facilities is split 50 / 50 with the instructor, or as defined by contract. The City of Irvine cannot guarantee the number of courses, the number of students, or the amount of revenue that a course may receive.

This recruitment is not an offer for employment. An application is not a guarantee your proposal will be accepted.

Not Applicable

01

Are you a member of CalPERS by previous employment? This means you have funds on deposit or service credit with CalPERS.

02

Do you understand that you are applying for a non-benefited, temporary contract with the City of Irvine, and this is not a position of employment?

03

Do you understand that the course revenue is split 50% to the contractor and 50% to the City of Irvine (depending on contract terms) and that if you are granted a contract, the City of Irvine cannot guarantee the number of courses, the number of students or the amount of revenue that a course may receive?

04

If this course will be offered by a company, please provide the company name.

05

What is your suggested course title?

06

Please provide a detailed description of your course.

07

If your course has an art emphasis, it best fits this category (you may select more than one) :

08

What is your preferred day and time to offer your course?

09

Please indicate the most appropriate age group : (please select one)

10

What type of facility do you need? (Check all that apply)

11

Do you have a facility in mind? If so, please list :

Required Question