Description

Job Summary:

The Georgetown Visitation teacher is a professional educator dedicated to fulfilling the school’s mission to develop young women influenced by a Catholic and Salesian heritage to become the women of faith, vision and purpose of our philosophy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Actively supports the mission and charism of the School; demonstrates an understanding of and enthusiasm for secondary education, for girls’ education, and for Catholic education
• Enthusiastically supports those values by nurturing, sustaining, and modeling them to the students
• Demonstrates a life-long love of learning and maintains the highest academic standards while meeting the individual needs of each student in the classroom and beyond
• Each faculty member is responsible for implementing the curriculum developed by each department
• Thoroughly prepares and presents course material and uses strategies to create the optimum learning environment
• To borrow from noted professor of child psychology Margaret McFarland, conveys a passion for learning where attitudes are not taught, but caught by their students
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Good organizational skills, good written and oral communication skills, proficient in Excel, Word, Google mail, other software as required
• Some evening and weekend work is required

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to move around campus and into several non-ADA compliant buildings
• Ability to lift and safely move objects up to 25 pounds; ability to work on a ladder to retrieve and maintain stock
• Ability to talk; finger; grasp; sit for extended periods of time; and repetitive motion
• Working conditions: this position is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions

Qualifications

Specific to Math:

Successful candidates should have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree with a strong academic background and at least 2 - 3 years teaching experience in a secondary school classroom (similar experience in a college setting will be considered).

Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to their age, color, disability status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion, sex, veteran status, or any other class protected by state or federal law. As a Catholic school, Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School reserves the right to use religion as a hiring criterion for selected positions, as permitted by law. Employment offers are contingent on the satisfactory outcome of a standard background screening.