Culinary and Hospitality Full Time Tenure Track Faculty
Harper College

Teach Your Passion

Bring your enthusiasm as an instructor to Harper College, where your work can have its greatest impact upon individuals from a wide variety of cultures. Feel the elation, as our students take your desire for excellence and make it their own.

We welcome you to inspire others, contribute to your profession, and enjoy the collegial setting, and advanced technological resources of Harper. Teach more than your discipline. Teach your passion.

Harper College is one of the nation’s premier community colleges and one of the largest, serving approximately 30,000 students annually in Chicago’s northwest suburbs. The College’s academic programs prepare students for rewarding careers and for transfer to four-year universities. Harper offers associate degree and certification programs, advanced career programs, workforce training, professional development, continuing education classes, accelerated degree options for adults and developmental education programs. In 2022, Harper also received the distinction of being recognized as a Top 25 semifinalist for the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence.

Harper College invites applications for a Culinary and Hospitality full-time tenure-track faculty position. The successful candidate will oversee our culinary and hospitality courses making sure we are covering concepts of the food and hospitality management industries, while focusing on the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in our student’s educational experience. 

The successful candidate will also serve as the Program Coordinator for the department. Program Coordinator responsibilities include promoting programs to district high schools, chairing departmental advisory committees, advising, outreach and recruitment. Candidates should possess expertise in culinary, food service and hospitality management.

Within this program, students can earn an AAS Degree in Hospitality Management-Food Service Operations Management or An AAS Degree in Hospitality Management-Hotel Operations Management. The program also offers four different certificates - three in Culinary Arts and one in Hospitality Management.

Your responsibilities will include teaching courses in Food Service Management, including, but not limited to, Baking, Garde Manager, Hospitality Supervision, and Front Office Operations; working with advisors, staff parents and students to develop recruitment plan and monitor enrollment; and developing innovative curricula that provides students with relevant skills and knowledge that align with industry needs.

Requirements Include:

• Bachelor’s in hospitality management, event management, food service management, or related field and 3 years of teaching and/or work experience at a chef level or higher in a commercial kitchen or bakery within Hospitality or Food and Culinary Services area
• Applicants should have previous experience teaching culinary and hospitality management courses in college settings. Three consecutive years of experience at a chef or management level within the culinary and hospitality industry.

To view job details and apply, please go to: https://jobs.harpercollege.edu/cw/en-us/job/494518?lApplicationSubSourceID=

Harper College is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to create an inclusive learning and working environment where individual differences and identities are respected, valued and embraced. We encourage women, people from historically underrepresented groups, individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply.