Lead Accounting Instructor

Salary: See Position Description

Location : Sanford, NC

Job Type: Faculty (12 Months)

Job Number: 02126

Division: SL-Business & Applied Technologies

Department: Business Technologies

Opening Date: 10/27/2025

Closing Date: Continuous

Job Description

At Central Carolina Community College, we create transformative lifelong learning opportunities! We expect all employees to find ways to remove barriers to student success and provide all students a pathway to achievable dreams. Our employees are charged to recognize the challenges we face and to respond to them with empathy, understanding, and a willingness to help.

Full-time faculty at Central Carolina Community College facilitate transformative lifelong learning by incorporating discipline-specific learning outcomes through active learning opportunities, lectures, hands-on skill development, assignments, and appropriate classroom management. Faculty provide authentic student assessment that allows students to improve their knowledge and skills with each assignment. Faculty focus on student success by establishing meaningful connections with students early in the semester to support the varying needs of each student throughout the semester.

The Lead Accounting Instructor (12-month) position will be based at the Lee Main Campus and may also include courses offered at the Harnett and Chatham campuses.

Salary depends on education and experience.

Associate Degree salary range: $60,042 - $70,291

Bachelor's Degree salary range: $63,614 - $74,396

Master's Degree salary range: $66,784 - $77,294

Doctorate Degree salary range: $71,353 - $81,620

Please include unofficial copies of undergraduate and graduate transcripts. Will be required to submit official copies of transcripts before the start date.

This position may have occasional travel between campuses and for training. Occasional after hours may be required.

This position requires face to face teaching. Essential Duties

Teaching Responsibilities:

Embrace the institutional goals of Central Carolina Community College by engaging students as full partners in the learning process, removing barriers to student progression in courses, and supporting and assisting students in achieving their educational and career goals.

Use student learning outcomes to create a variety of activities, assignments, and assessments that ensure curriculum goals will be met.

Create a dynamic instructional environment that promotes a positive, interactive, and inclusive learning experience for all students.

Maintain a Blackboard course with a syllabus and gradebook for each class.

Grade all assignments in a timely manner and ensure that all grades are reported within the 10-day college grading policy.

Provide personalized and constructive feedback on student assignments by recognizing what students did well and identifying attainable improvements for future work.

Respond to all student communication within two business days.

Report attendance weekly.

Facilitate student learning for instructional loads of 15-20 contact hours per semester.

Faculty keep a weekly schedule of 35 hours on campus, including 5 required office hours. Hours on site may be adjusted based on distance education responsibilities and/or approved telework arrangements.

Assume other duties as assigned.

Actively support the college's vision of exceptional learning for all. Advising Responsibilities:

Meet with each assigned advisee a minimum of once each semester.

Provide advisees with information and guidance to achieve their individual educational, career, and life goals.

Help students develop educational plans.

Coach advisees and refer them to institutional resources when academic or personal problems require intervention.

Complete faculty advisor training. Lead Instructor Responsibilities:

Serve as the lead resource for the curriculum.

Develop and implement a plan for recruiting students.

Chair the advisory board.

Lead the annual program review.

Recruit, hire, and supervise adjunct faculty with support from the department chair.

Recommend appropriate and current equipment, perform equipment inventories, maintain equipment in good working condition, and take steps to ensure student safety around equipment.

Collaboratively evaluate program needs for review, planning, and budgeting purposes with other faculty and department chair.

Prepare annual program budget request, incorporating needs assessment and estimated expenses.

Monitor program budget throughout the fiscal year, communicating allocations, transferring funds as necessary, and alerting your supervisor to any concerns. Institutional Responsibilities:

Participate in activities required to maintain program and/or college accreditation standards.

Serve on college committees as appointed.

Attend advisory board meetings as requested by your supervisor.

Attend graduation ceremonies.

Engage in a minimum of 5 hours of professional development each year.

Maintain current knowledge of your discipline and renew industry credentials, as needed.

Attend departmental, divisional, and collegewide meetings.

Cultivate a culture of care and advocacy through compassion, inclusion, opportunity, integrity, courage, and people.

Recognizing and respecting the variety of experiences and contributions represented by all of our students, employees, and community, all faculty will encourage a learning environment in which everyone is supported and valued for their unique perspectives and experiences and will foster and promote the participation of all members of our diverse communities. Minimum Requirements

Master's degree with a major in Accounting OR

Master's degree in a related discipline with 18 graduate semester hours in Accounting Preferred Requirements

Teaching experience, especially at the post-secondary level

Community college experience

Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensure

Experience with learning management system

Experience with curriculum development

Bilingual Central Carolina Community College provides a comprehensive, affordable insurance and benefits program. We are continuously investigating new benefit offerings that are responsive to the needs of our full-time employees.

State Health Plan

Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Additional Supplemental Insurances

Disability Plan

NC Retirement Plan

Leave (Vacation, Sick, FMLA, Civil and Military, Education, and Voluntary Shared)

Paid Holidays

Prior State Service Verification

Supplemental Retirement Plan

Employee Assistance Program

State Employees' Credit Union

State Employees Association of NC (SEANC)

Employee Discount Program **Please note: Most temporary (part-time or full-time) employees do not earn benefits.