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Type: Full Time
Min. Experience: Entry Level
About Grace
Grace Church School’s mission of fostering academic excellence, ethical values, and an inclusive community anchors our program and informs our pedagogy and curriculum, preparing our students to lead meaningful and productive lives. The school nurtures and educates the whole child, understanding that our humanity comprises mind, body, heart, and spirit. We celebrate our differences, respect our diversity, and embrace our shared human experience.
We are seeking confident, ethical, adaptable and thoughtful educators with excellent communication skills to join a diverse and nurturing school community.
About the Position:
Grace Church School seeks an Administrative Assistant to the Office of Community Engagement. The OCE houses the Dean of Equity and Inclusion, the Dean of Community Life, and the Dean of Student Life. It is responsible for overseeing the school’s approach to integrated social justice through inclusion and antiracism, sustainability, service learning, and health and wellness. Ideal candidates would have experience in communications and be well-versed in equity work in an academic setting.
Responsibilities would include:
- Maintaining the office and Deans’ calendars, and carrying out general office management duties
- Liaising with the communications department for matters related to community-wide communications and website maintenance
- Writing community-wide communications including newsletters and alerts about professional development opportunities
- Assisting in registration and chaperoning for student conferences and workshops
- Collaborating with the Deans and divisional liaisons from Early Childhood, Lower-, Middle-, and High School divisions to the office to support initiatives and programming under the OCE purview
- Aiding in the supervision of student programming (affinity/alliance spaces, etc.)
- Helping to vet, develop, and execute professional development opportunities for educators, parents, and members of the Board of Trustees
Qualifications:
- At least two years in the field of education and/or school administrative support
- Fluency in discourse around aspects of identity including but not limited to race, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, learning styles and ability
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
- Training and experience promoting anti-bias work with students, parents, and educators.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
Position could start at earliest convenience of the new hire.
Requirements
Applicants should submit a résumé and cover letter through the employment page of our website.
Initial interviews for this position will take place on Zoom.
Grace Church School is an equal opportunity employer.
Our Commitment to Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism:
Grace Church School seeks to provide its students with an outstanding education and with the desire to use it to make the world a better place. Every facet of our work is enhanced by the diversity and strength of our community. We believe that equity and inclusion are not only hallmarks of a just society, but also virtues essential to sound learning. And so, Grace seeks to recognize and honor the unique gifts of its students, families, faculty, and staff—and the cultures, beliefs, values, and experiences that have shaped them—striving always to cultivate mutual understanding, humility, respect, and kindness.
But inclusion is not enough and equity is an impossibility if we cannot name, acknowledge, and oppose the forces of racism and all forms of bias, hate, and fear that exist in our society and that seek to diminish so many in our midst. Knowing this, we commit ourselves to the work of anti-racism and to the cause of justice: that all students may find in Grace a home, may learn from Grace their precious worth, and may hear from Grace a call to serve the common good and the dignity of humanity.