Science Teacher

Position Title: Science Teacher

First commitment: July 1, 2025

Contract type: Permanent, 10-month

School Type: Boarding

Reports To: Assistant Head/Dean of Faculty

Position Summary:

St. Mark's School seeks a skilled and collaborative Science Teacher to join the Science Department in the 2025-2026 academic year. The successful applicant will join a department that cares deeply about developing our students’ ability to conduct scientific investigations, think critically, and draw evidence-based conclusions. In cultivating these important skills and challenging learners to think deeply about the applications of scientific concepts in real-world contexts, we advance our goal of preparing students for their future. The School values flexible educators who possess an optimistic, growth-oriented mindset regarding learning, both for themselves and their students. Educators with these characteristics and the desire to contribute to a vibrant boarding school community through coaching, advising, and residential life are encouraged to apply.

As a Science teacher, you will be a member of the Science department and report to the head of the department and the assistant head of school/ dean of faculty. We invite interested candidates to apply by completing an application on the St. Mark’s School Employment page.

What You’ll Do as Science Teacher

As a St. Mark’s faculty member, you will teach in the Science department, advise three to six students, attend all-school and faculty-required events, and coach or lead co-curricular programming. Other key responsibilities are as follows:

• Teach four sections of science across the range of offerings in the department, and work collaboratively with a teaching team to design and evaluate the curriculum.
• Provide students in the classroom with timely, ongoing, and meaningful feedback, including comments for each student at the end of grading periods
• Support a residential house team by supervising evening hours once weekly and five Saturday nights per year
• Participate in St. Mark’s Experiential Learning Programming, which includes course design and development in St. Mark’s Saturdays and in Lion Term.
• Participate in community life through Social Duty (four weekends per year)
• Give up to six admission tours per year

Required Skills and Abilities

• Master’s degree in Science and two or more years of science teaching experience.
• Ability to structure effective learning experiences for novice through advanced science students.
• Enthusiasm for work with adolescent students in many contexts
• Outstanding task and time management skills with high attention to detail
• Strong leadership, collaboration, interpersonal, and communication skills
• Proficiency with computer applications such as Google Suite including Docs, Slides, and Sheets

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in an educational setting, including familiarity with residential communities and the needs of adolescents
• Experience teaching Chemistry and/or Physics at the secondary school level.
• Experience teaching in an interdisciplinary curriculum and/or teaching multiple subjects.
• Success working with culturally diverse populations as well as a commitment to inclusive pedagogy
• Commitment to continuous self-reflection and professional growth

Things You’ll Love:

• On-campus housing; health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement contribution – after one year of service, the school contributes 10% of your annual salary to a 403 (b) retirement plan (100% immediate vesting); three meals a day are available at the dining hall during the school year for you and your family; use of facilities for you and your immediate family: weight rooms, outdoor pool, ice rink, basketball courts, nature trails, etc.; annual financial planning services available; parental leave: 8 weeks at full pay, and 4 weeks at a quarter pay; Health Assistance Program; Employee Assistance Program; tuition remission (100%); Child Day Care financial assistance program; William A. Coolidge Fund – annual financial assistance for each employee’s child attending tuition-charging schools.

Salary:

• Pay is commensurate with experience. For reference, please find the base salary bands for faculty members whose primary responsibilities are in the classroom below:

• Years of experience between 31 and 40 years: $90,100 - $94,900
• Years of experience between 21 and 30 years: $70,890 - $89,850
• Years of experience between 11 and 20 years: $56,670 - $68,900
• Years of experience between 0 and 10 years: $27,810 - $53,770

Salary : $27,810 - $53,770