Spanish Faculty, Middle School

Faculty, Middle School Spanish

Begins August 2025

Job Summary: The Pembroke Hill School is seeking a full-time faculty member to teach 4 sections of Spanish for the 2025-26 school year. Our premier Spanish program starts in the Early Childhood division and progresses through the Middle and Upper Schools to the Advanced Placement level. Pembroke Hill is committed to a culturally competent education.

Key Responsibilities

• Teach all levels of middle school Spanish, from introductory to Spanish II
• The ability and desire to be a leader among teachers for the improvement of the ongoing development of the middle school Foreign Language curriculum and overall advancement of the school.
• An understanding of teaching effectively in block periods, including appropriate use of differentiation and technology.
• Communicate thoughtfully with students, colleagues, parents, and various community members.
• Establish a classroom environment conducive to student learning and achievement.
• Collaborate and work cooperatively with all language teachers within the department and other divisions to ensure proper implementation of the curriculum.
  
  

Schedule : Teaching positions are based on the school year (August through May). During the school year, there are three school vacations – one week at Thanksgiving, two weeks in December, and two weeks in March – plus holidays, personal and sick days.

Compensation : Compensation will be based on a competitive norm influenced by area and peer schools, using years of teaching experience and the highest completed degree. Transcripts and verification of employment will be required. Benefits include health, dental, retirement match (up to 8%), professional development opportunities, PHS tuition remission, free lunch, and more!

About Pembroke Hill School

Pembroke Hill School is an independent school in Kansas City, Missouri. Pembroke Hill seeks to fulfill our mission by recognizing that diversity, belonging, equity, and inclusion are integral elements of school and community life. Our mission-inspired goal is together, cultivating the best in each, for the benefit of all. Cultivating each to be a global thinker and valuable member of the PHS community poised to acquire the academic and life skills that make a significant difference for all.

We have newer and updated facilities, excellent classroom resources, small class sizes, and a competitive and comprehensive compensation and benefits package. If you would like to join a highly qualified team who enjoys teaching talented and dedicated students please complete the online application to be considered.

Physical Demands For Faculty Positions

The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods. For elementary and lower school, sit on the floor for extended periods of time.
• Ability to enter data into a computer, to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids
• Ability to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors, and on the telephone
• Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone
• Physical ability to lift, carry and/or hold up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and 50 pounds to waist height
• Ability to occasionally balance, reach, bend, squat, stoop, or kneel
• Ability to climb stairs, walk, and occasionally run, if required
  
  

Requirements And Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish, education, or a closely related field required
• Minimum of three years of teaching experience, preferably with middle school students.
• Native or near-native fluency in the Spanish language in all four skill areas: reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
• Technologically savvy. Proven comfort in educational technology tools.
• Demonstrated success with different adolescent needs across grades 6-8.
• Exhibits an abiding passion and experience working with a diverse student body.