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Job Title: ABE/HSE Reading & Writing Teacher

PVN ID: LE-2509-007005

Category: Instruction and Social Service

Job Description

General Description

The Lehman College Adult Learning Center is seeking a dynamic part-time evening ABE/HSE Reading & Writing Teacher to work with a diverse group of adult learners. The class meets for two sessions a week --Tuesday and Thursday from 6 to 9 pm.

Essential duties include:

+ Providing high-quality theme-based instruction to help students develop their reading and writing skills

+ Designing engaging lessons to help students foster a love of reading and learning

+ Integrating different online platforms and technologies to effectively deliver instruction

+ Collaborating with staff and teachers to develop best teaching practices and enriching materials

+ Reviewing and communicating class progress with both staff and students

+ Actively partaking in internal teacher meetings and citywide professional development

+ Maintaining class attendance and communicating with students about program participation issues

+ Participating in new student orientations and program-wide events and activities

+ Conducting required assessments including TABE exams when needed

+ Having a willingness to learn and become part of the ALC community of teachers and learners

+ Other duties as assigned

The Lehman College Adult Learning Center (ALC) is a teacher-led direct-service project of the Institute for Literacy Studies (ILS). Our shared mission—advancing urban education—has deep significance for the schools, colleges, and community-based settings in our home borough of the Bronx. Four interrelated core values inspire and infuse our work: commitments to human capacity, social justice, the power of democratic communities, and transformative work for all persons.

We provide thoughtful, innovative instruction, individualized counseling, and a nurturing environment for learners aged 16 and older. Students enter our program with the hope that the ALC’s key programs comprising free classes for Adult Basic Education (ABE), High School Equivalency (HSE), and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), including career and college readiness, can provide them with a meaningful pathway toward qualitatively better lives and economic self-sufficiency. Our classes embed adult learning in real-life contexts to ensure that everyone who comes through our door has the skills to get a foothold and compete in the modern workplace.

Other Duties

Qualifications

+ Candidate must have Bachelor's degree and relevant teaching and education experience.

+ Prior adult education experience, Master’s Degree a plus.

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About the Research Foundation

The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.

RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement The Research Foundation of the City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Americans with Disabilities Act/E-Verify Employer. It is the policy of the Research Foundation of CUNY to provide equal employment opportunities free of discrimination based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic violence victim status, arrest record, criminal conviction history, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Key Features

Department School of Education/Institute for Litera

Status Part Time

Pay Range $37.00-$37.00

Hour(s) a week 6.00

Closing Date Nov 08, 2025 (Or Until Filled)

Bargaining Unit No

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