Lecturer jobs
Part-time and adjunct lecturer positions at colleges and universities across the U.S., updated daily.
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About lecturer jobs
Lecturer is the title many colleges and universities give the people they hire to teach: faculty whose job is the classroom, not a research programme, and who work on term or yearly contracts outside the tenure track. At a large share of institutions it is simply the local name for a part-time instructor, the role other schools call an adjunct.
This page lists open positions with lecturer in the title at U.S. colleges and universities, refreshed daily. Tenure-track and open-rank faculty searches are not listed on OpenLecture.
How to use this page
Filter by discipline, state, pay or posting date, and save a search to get an email when a new lecturer position is posted in your field. Titles vary by institution, so it is worth checking all adjunct and part-time faculty jobs as well: the same role is often advertised as adjunct instructor or part-time faculty. If you would rather give a single talk than teach a course, see becoming a guest lecturer.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a lecturer?
- A lecturer is a faculty member hired to teach rather than to do research, and the position is off the tenure track. Lecturers teach undergraduate courses, and sometimes graduate ones, on a contract that runs for a term or a year at a time. Some universities also have full-time lecturer ranks; the openings on this page are almost all part-time.
- What is the difference between a lecturer and an adjunct professor?
- Often only the title. Many institutions call their part-time, per-course instructors lecturers (the City University of New York hires "adjunct lecturers", and the California State University calls its non-tenure-track faculty lecturers), where others call the same role adjunct instructor or adjunct professor. The work and the pay structure are usually the same: you are hired to teach specific course sections for a term.
- Do you need a PhD to be a lecturer?
- Usually not. A master's degree in the subject is the common minimum for teaching undergraduate courses. Research universities often prefer a PhD or other terminal degree, and graduate courses usually require one. In applied fields such as business, nursing, engineering and the arts, professional experience counts alongside the degree.
- How are part-time lecturers paid?
- Part-time lecturers are normally paid per course, per credit or per teaching unit for the term, not a salary. Among the 126 lecturer listings on this page that state per-course pay, the median is $5,063 per course. Many listings do not publish pay; each listing shows it where the institution does.
- Is a lecturer the same as a guest lecturer?
- No. A lecturer is employed to teach a whole course. A guest lecturer is an outside speaker invited to give a single class session, usually a practitioner sharing professional experience, and is not on the faculty. OpenLecture also connects guest lecturers with instructors who want one.