Employment

Chatham Hall offers a warm and collegial atmosphere for teaching professionals, administrators and support staff. We are a community of rich traditions focused on contributing to the learning and development of our exceptional students. In addition, the town of Chatham offers an easy, less-expensive lifestyle with many metropolitan areas only a few hours away. If you chose to join us, we must warn you: The relationships you develop with your colleagues and students are likely to last a lifetime.

Chatham Hall complies with applicable federal and local laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, age, sex, disability, religion, national origin, or any other legally protected category.

Faculty Positions

Academic Skills Teacher

Chatham Hall, an all girls 9-12 independent school in southern Virginia, is beginning a search for an Academic Skills teacher, a new position at this school.

The Academic Skills teacher will offer support to students in the areas of organization, writing, note-taking, assessments, attention, and SAT preparation. The ability to interpret and understand educational testing and to communicate findings to faculty is a necessity. The ideal candidate will have an excellent knowledge of learning theories and teaching methodologies that support a wide range of learning styles and best teaching practices. This Academic Skills teacher will work closely with students, teachers, parents, administrators, and educational counselors. Strong interpersonal skills, patience, and intelligence are personal qualities that we are looking for in this individual.

Qualifications: Minimum of three years of classroom teaching, as well as a strong background in supporting students in the above mentioned areas.

Chatham Hall would like to have this teacher in place by January, 2009. If we do not find the proper candidate within this time frame, the search will continue, with August, 2009, as the outside beginning date.

Please send resume and cover letter to:
Martha Griswold, Academic Dean
Chatham Hall
800 Chatham Hall Circle
Chatham, VA 24531

Administrative/Staff Positions

Dean of Students

Chatham Hall, an all-girls, boarding-and-day high school in southern Virginia, seeks a Dean of Students for the 2009-2010 academic year.

A key administrator at the School, the Dean of Students at Chatham Hall serves as the head of residential life, oversees the Health Care Center, determines routine disciplinary actions, coordinates and oversees a seminar for new girls, teaches an elective in an area of expertise, and, in collaboration with the Academic Dean, advises the Student Honor Council, among other responsibilities.

We are seeking a candidate who is not only experienced and skillful at working with adolescent girls in a boarding school, but also creative, innovative, and forward-looking. Our new Dean of Students will inherit a residential program that is characterized by cooperative, affectionate, and respectful relationships among students and adults. We will look to our new Dean of Students to develop this program into an even more distinctive and dynamic aspect of community life.

In addition to possessing a mature sense of ethics and strong management skills, candidates must be adaptable and able to work affably and collaboratively with a range of people. Skill with written and oral communication is essential. A minimum of a bachelor’s degree is required, as well as suitable overall experience in secondary education for this kind of upper-level administrative position in a select boarding school.

Salary is competitive, and housing is provided. Beginning date, July 1, 2009.

Interested applicants should send a resume, a minimum of three references, and an introductory letter outlining qualifications for and interest in this position to

Dr. Gary Fountain, Rector, and Ms. Martha Griswold, Academic Dean, Co-chairs
Search Committee for Dean of Students
Chatham Hall
800 Chatham Hall Circle
Chatham, VA 24531

gfountain@chathamhall.org
mgriswold@chathamhall.org