Position Description: BCS is hiring temporary/as-needed substitutes for the 2025-26 school year to use Red Rover, our substitute management program, to find available opportunities via web or mobile app. You can work as much or as little as you like by modifying your preferences on schools, dates and times. PLEASE NOTE: Substitute applicants must complete steps 1, 2 and 3 at www.buncombeschools.org/substitute in order to be considered for a substitute position. See job description for additional details. We look forward to getting you onboarded and seeing you at our next monthly substitute teacher orientation class!
Effective 8/17/2026
Substitute Teacher Pay Range: Licensed = $165 per day; Non-Licensed = $120 per day (Substitute Teacher Assistant Pay = $15.00/hr)
Pay Range for interim Math/Science positions = $170 per day for licensed educators
Questions? Email chrissy.porter@bcsemail.org for assistance.
Buncombe County Schools is the state's 13th largest school system and the largest district in Western North Carolina. We employ nearly 3,800 people and serve more than 24,500 students, making BCS the county's second largest employer. More than 55 different languages are spoken in our 44 schools.
Buncombe County rests in a central area of a high plateau bordered by the Blue Ridge, Great Craggy, and Black Mountains on the East and the Great Smokies chain of the Appalachians on the West. Sprawling over seven hundred and seventy square miles of valley lowlands and mountain coves, Buncombe County is home to over 206,000 residents. Asheville, located at the confluence of the French Broad and Swannanoa Rivers, is the county seat as well as the economic and cultural center of Western North Carolina. Buncombe County enjoys a broadly based economy supported by a thriving tourist and convention enterprise, widely diversified industry, forestry and agriculture.
