Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy is seeking a passionate, enthusiastic Middle School Assistant Principal and Judaic Studies rabbinical leader to join our talented, creative team! Among other qualities, our ideal candidate, the consummate “people person,” should be eager to establish a warm and supportive rapport with 5th-8th grade students, parents, and teachers.
Job responsibilities include:
- Proactively participate with constructive, creative ideas with a collaborative and enthusiastic administrative team
- Imbue a love of Torah, davening, and learning in all students, across all academic levels
- Explore opportunities to build school culture and middot, seeing initiatives from inception through facilitation; foster teacher collaboration
- Act as an admissions liaison between Middle School and High School
- Reinforce teacher-family communication, acting as a liaison between school and home, by email, phone, in-person
- Teach classes and lead advisory in 5th and 6th grades; lead a weekly tefillah class
- Oversee discipline
- Create special schedules and logistics to echo and support instructional time
- Chaperone student trips and oversee arrival/dismissal procedures
- Partner with the principal in facilitating faculty meetings and PD needs for Middle School
- Initiate and facilitate parent meetings about class placement/discipline issues
- Support Director of Educational Programming with specific, nuanced effort for each unique program
Please send resumes to jobs@jkha.org