Job Description
Location : Irvine, CA
Job Type: N/A
Job Number: 03738
Department: Community 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: - Review our current quarter's Community Services Inside Irvine to see if your proposed course is already being offered. You can view our brochure online at
- 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.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities - Teach infants, children, teens, and adults based on course focus/description
- Develop a course curriculum including course outline, description, and lessons; check for understanding and/or testing; and all other related course materials for the proposed subject(s)
- Develop diverse and creative programming not currently offered by the City of Irvine
Minimum Training and Experience Required to Perform Essential Job Functions - Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent knowledge/experience
- Some teaching or presentation experience
- Familiarity and experience working with a diverse populace
- City of Irvine Business License for courses held in Irvine
- Fingerprinting through the Irvine Police Department
- Insurance as defined by contract
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:
- Course is not a duplication of an existing course or program that sufficiently meets demand
- Course does not pose an unreasonable safety risk to participants
- Course title and subject matter are interpreted as an appropriate City service consistent with the City's adopted policies, mission, goals, and strategic plans
- Registration revenues based on projected course attendance are anticipated to be sufficient to recover costs borne by City
The City will not contract for courses that fall into any of the following: - Courses that subject participants to investment advice, ventures that may pose financial risks or solicitation, and/or sell products or services
- Courses that imply religious instruction, offer a religious-based program or service, and/or infer practices or rituals
- Courses that promote alcohol, illegal drugs, drug or weapon products, paraphernalia, firearms, tobacco, gambling, and/or adult-oriented or sexually explicit materials
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):
- Books and/or Paper Arts
- Ceramics and/or Sculpture
- Culinary
- Drawing
- Fiber
- Jewelry and/or Metal Arts
- Painting
- Photography
- Print Making
08
What is your preferred day and time to offer your course?
09
Please indicate the most appropriate age group: (please select one)
- Infant/Toddler: birth-3 years
- Preschool: 3-5 years
- School Age: Kindergarten-6th grade
- Middle School
- High School
- Adult
- Senior: Age 50+
10
What type of facility do you need? (Check all that apply)
- Ballroom
- Ceramics Studio
- Craft Room
- Drawing/Painting Studio
- Field
- Dance/Exercise Room
- Jewelry Studio
- Kitchen
- Multipurpose Room
- Photography Studio/Dark Room
- Printmaking Studio
11
Do you have a facility in mind? If so, please list:
Required Question City of Irvine, CA
Job Tags
Contract work, Temporary work, For contractors, Summer work, 3 days per week, 1 day per week,