This position reports to the Head of School and is a full-time senior administrative position. The Dean of Students & Belonging works closely with the Head of School and other senior administrators to advance the school’s DEIJB and socio-emotional competencies mission. The Dean oversees the school’s Commons (assembly) program, all student field study and student clubs and activities.

The Dean oversees student discipline, the family handbook, family, student and staffulty affinity groups and staffs the Board of Trustees’ DEIJB Committee. This position chairs the child study team, the equity team and partners closely with the Admission team to ensure that the school’s DEIJB mission is advanced in admission strategy. This position also partners closely with the senior administration to continue to ensure a diverse faculty and staff.

Duties include

• Overseeing the Center for Belonging
• Key administrator overseeing the family handbook
• Senior administrator responsible for advancing the school’s DEIJB mission
• Oversees all student discipline and ensures alignment with the school’s DEIJB and socio-emotional values and program
• Coordinates family, student and staffulty affinity groups
• Oversees the Commons (assembly) program
• Oversees all field study
• Chairs the school’s equity team
• Serves on the Senior Administrative Team
• Partners with the chaplain to ensure a DEIJB lens for our Episcopal identity
• Chairs the school’s Child Study Team
• Supports the school’s strategic initiatives related to admission (class visits, notes to families, open houses, fairs, etc.) and advancement of mission (collaborating with the Communications Office with DEIJB and student life communications)
• Supporting pick-up, drop-off, lunch and recess coverage as assigned
• Meeting with families to assess student success and challenges

About St. James' Episcopal School

Founded in 1968, St. James’ Episcopal School inspires in our students a lifelong love of learning, joy in service and deep compassion and empathy for our complicated but beautiful world. We believe that true excellence only come through joyous, rigorous and student centered instruction. We see God’s spirit and joy in every person and service to community, particularly the unhoused and the hungry.

Spanning from preschool through grade 6, our graduates matriculate at the strongest middle schools in Los Angeles and throughout the United States. Our faculty and staff, referred to as “staffulty” enjoy robust benefits including tuition remission (90% discounted tuition), graduate school support, pension and healthcare. An Episcopal School, St. James’ celebrates all faith traditions and does not discriminate based on religion or creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, race or ethnicity.

Minimum Requirements

• At least 3 year’s experience as an elementary or middle school administrator
• At least 5 year’s experience as a lead elementary or middle school teacher
• Proven excellence in building highly successful DEIJB learning spaces
• Proven success in coaching faculty to design rigorous and equity-framed instruction with differentiated student assessment and learning
• Proven success in designing socio-emotional learning space for early elementary, elementary, upper elementary or middle school children
• Successfully applies growth-mindedness, honesty, high standards and empathy to one’s own professional growth
• Masters or undergraduate degree in child psychology or socio-emotional earning preferred

About St James' Episcopal School

About St. James’ Episcopal School  St. James’ Episcopal School is a community that values academic rigor, compassion, curiosity, kindness, critical inquiry and joy through excellence. We adhere to a strong belief that an elementary school’s primary purpose is to inculcate in children a lifelong love of learning, a commitment to community, a profound curiosity about people and the world, and gratitude for the opportunity to make our complex world more compassionate, empathetic and nurturing to all of God’s children. Established in 1968, and encompassing most of a block on St. Andrews Place, and a preschool on Gramercy Place, St. James’ is comprised of 365 students and over 73 employees, whom we refer to as “staffulty” due to the belief that everything at St. James’ is the curriculum and that all employees are teachers. St. James’ Episcopal School believes that each individual is entitled to equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, ancestry, national origin, disability, marital status, age, sexual orientation, medical condition, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local discrimination laws.

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