Posted: 17-Jul-25
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
Type: Full Time
Salary: 33,600-36,700
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Faculty Assistant, Lower School (Grades K-5)
Begins August 2025
Summary: Pembroke Hill School seeks joyful, energetic individuals to serve as faculty assistants in its lower school (K-5) for the 2025-26 school year. Under the supervision of a lead teacher, the faculty assistant contributes significantly to the lower school’s educational program by teaching and providing support to students through small group instruction and one-on-one work. While the faculty assistant works primarily with the homeroom teacher, the assistant also attends select resource classes with their class or grade level to provide support and assistance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Engage children in learning, support problem solving, and supervise children throughout the day.
- Lead small group experiences as determined by lead teacher
- Take initiative to identify students needing additional support.
- Collaborate with lead teacher to plan daily activities, gather materials, and set up experiences.
- Assist the lead teacher in planning and implementing the curriculum and classroom routines.
- Use independent judgment to reinforce educational goals based on student needs.
- Work with the lead teacher in assessing and evaluating students.
- Perform duties of lead teacher when absent or in meetings outside the classroom.
- Keep the classroom teacher and lower school division head abreast of issues or concerns.
Schedule: The faculty assistant position is a school year position (August-May) with a one week Thanksgiving break, two week winter break, and two week spring break. Faculty assistants are either assigned to a grade level classroom or fill a “roving” position, providing coverage where needed.
Compensation: The annual base salary for the school year ranges from $33,600-36,700 based on previous experience. 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 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.
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
Bachelor’s Degree in an Education - or related field of study.
Min. 1 year experience working with children, preferably in a teaching or tutoring role.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Demonstrated ability to create and maintain positive relationships with children, families, and colleagues.