Posted: 09-Jun-25
Location: Tinton Falls, New Jersey
Type: Full Time
Salary: 60,000-85,000
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Salary Details:
Required Education:
Ranney School seeks an Upper School Spanish Teacher for the 2025 - 2026 School Year.
The ideal candidate will have an advanced degree in Spanish, Spanish education, or a related field, and experience teaching high school. Proficiency in French and the ability to teach it is also highly desirable.
Key Skills and Qualities:
- A passion for educating adolescents up to meaningful, relevant, and high academic standards.
- A growth mindset for oneself and one’s students
- Collegial interactions with one’s peers and kind and positive interactions with students and parents
- Experience with or openness to utilizing Comprehensible Input (CI) or Acquisition Driven Instruction
Primary Job Responsibilities:
- Teach five sections of Spanish, predominantly in the Upper School with the potential for a section in the Middle School.
- Facilitate in the Upper School’s “Maymester” program, an experiential education program that takes place over the last two weeks of the school year.
- In addition to a full-time schedule, faculty mentor students in advisory and co-curricular activities, participate in division and department meetings, and serve in various supervisory roles.
- Developing strong relationships with students and colleagues is critical for one’s success at Ranney and for the school’s successful accomplishment of its mission to “know and value every child.”
Compensation
The salary range for this position is $60,000 to $85,000 annually, commensurate with educational attainment and years of relevant experience.
Ranney School offers a robust benefits package to eligible full-time employees, including:
- Medical, HRA, dental, and vision insurance plans
- Employer-paid life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance
- A voluntary 403(b) retirement plan with employer matching contributions based on years of service
- Partial tuition remission for eligible children and grandchildren
- Graduate tuition assistance and professional development grants
- Retention bonuses awarded at five-year milestones
About Ranney School:
Ranney School is an Age 3-Grade 12 independent, college preparatory school based in Tinton Falls, NJ. Our school serves a diverse body of approximately 770 students from across Monmouth & Ocean Counties on the northern New Jersey shore.
A secular, college-preparatory day school, Ranney is guided by a strong Board of Trustees, an experienced Head of School, Dr. John Griffith, and most notably, by a powerful mission and vision. Our mission is “To know and value every child, nurturing intellectual curiosity and confidence, and inspiring students to lead honorably, think creatively, and contribute meaningfully to society.”
We envision Ranney School as a nurturing learning community, in which families, faculty, alumni and all of Ranney’s constituents collaborate to distinguish and value every child, foster individual talents, sustain powerful connections between children and adults, and graduate resilient, globally-minded citizens. We continue to foster an inclusive community that supports a spectrum of cultures, beliefs and talents to promote the intellectual growth and moral development of all members of our community. We are inspired by an awareness and appreciation for diversity, human dignity and interpersonal acceptance.
To Apply:
Please submit an application dossier compiled into one, single PDF file and emailed to Upper School Head Mr. Ted Parker (tparker@ranneyschool.org) and World Languages Department Chair Dr. Lara Tucker (ltucker@ranneyschool.org).
The dossier must include:
- a cover letter specific to this position at Ranney,
- a CV/resume, and
- a list of three to five professional references. References will not be checked without first notifying candidates.
The subject line of the email should read “Ranney School Spanish Faculty.” Please name the PDF file with the following format: “[Applicant Last Name] Ranney Spanish.”