Cambridge, Massachusetts
Posted: 27-Jun-25
Location: Southborough, Massachusetts
Type: Temp to Full Time
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Position Title: Science Teacher - Family Leave
First commitment: October 1, 2025
Contract type: Family Leave
School Type: Boarding
Reports To: Assistant Head/Dean of Faculty
Position Summary:
St. Mark's School seeks a skilled and collaborative Science Teacher for a family leave position, teaching three to four sections of Chemistry and Advanced Chemistry from October 2025 through early January 2026. 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 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 faculty Employment page.
What You’ll Do as Science Teacher:
As a St. Mark’s faculty member, you will teach three to four sections in the Science department and attend some all-school and faculty-required events. Other key responsibilities are as follows:
- Work collaboratively with members of the Science department and your teaching team(s) 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
Salary:
- Pay is commensurate with experience. For reference, please find the base salary bands for full time, residential 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
Depending on the candidate’s experience and level of interest, there is the possibility of additional responsibilities and compensation in the school program, including residential duty and athletic coaching.
About St. Mark’s School:
St. Mark's School is a coed, private boarding high school of approximately 375 students with a strong, college preparatory curriculum located 22 miles west of Boston and 12 miles east of Worcester. St. Mark's School educates young people for lives of leadership and service. Founded in 1865 as an intentionally small residential community, the School challenges its students to develop their particular analytic and creative capabilities by both inspiring their academic and spiritual curiosity and kindling their passion for discovery. We value cooperation over self-interest, and we encourage all members of our community to explore their place in the larger world beyond our campus.
St. Mark's School provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, classics, national origin, gender, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability or genetics, and any other characteristic or status protected by law.
Required Skills and Abilities:
- Master’s degree in Science and two or more years of science teaching experience.
- Experience teaching Chemistry at the secondary school level
- 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:
- Familiarity with a residential educational settings and the needs of adolescents
- Experience teaching in an interdisciplinary curriculum and/or teaching multiple subjects.
- Familiarity with the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS)
- Success working with culturally diverse populations as well as a commitment to inclusive pedagogy
- Commitment to continuous self-reflection and professional growth