Interim Dean of Faculty, Two-Year

Description

Salary Range - $180,000 - $230,000

As we enter into a head transition, UHS is seeking a two-year, Interim Dean of Faculty. This is a full-time senior administrative role, reporting directly to the Head of School. At San Francisco University High School, we believe that the deepest learning requires collaboration among people who embody a diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, experiences, and perspectives. In order to build and sustain a community that comprises a wide range of social and cultural identities, we must continually engage in furthering our self-knowledge, equity literacy, and ability to communicate effectively across differences. We challenge ourselves to do this work on both a personal and institutional level, recognizing that our community is part of a larger and more complex world.

The new Dean of Faculty will need to invest time and attention to get to know their colleagues and, with authenticity and their own style, develop relationships, cultivate trust, and establish collaborative partnerships, especially important given the strong culture of shared leadership and decision-making. As a voice and advocate for the faculty on the administrative team, the Dean’s success will also depend on their appreciation for and knowledge of the perspective of teachers.

The Dean of Faculty works closely with department chairs to determine detailed, annual staffing plans, and to identify hiring needs.  The Dean leads the processes to recruit, hire, and onboard new faculty members. UHS has worked to develop thoughtful and equitable hiring practices and has succeeded in diversifying its faculty across generations, Bay Area geography, race, class, and gender. The Dean of Faculty has the opportunity to partner with colleagues to continually examine and refine practices to attract strong and mission-aligned teachers. They will benefit from and build upon the school’s strong reputation in the region.

The Dean of Faculty leads and organizes systems to support the ongoing growth and development of their colleagues. The average

tenure for teachers at UHS is 12 years, and most faculty members come to UHS with previous experience. The Dean needs to respect, appreciate, support and lead a deeply experienced faculty and to understand how to effectively gain their support as the school seeks to cultivate an agile and nimble culture to support meaningful institutional change. UHS utilizes Folio to support its coaching oriented growth, goal setting, and feedback program. The Dean also oversees a substantial internal and external professional development budget and programs that help to facilitate the development and growth of the UHS faculty.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3-4  years in academic leadership that includes realizing strategic goals and successful coaching and supervision of teachers
• Minimum of 7-10 years as a classroom teacher
• Demonstrated ability to bring an equity focus to all efforts
• Demonstrated understanding of pedagogy in multiple subject areas
• Demonstrated success in
  • Effective classroom teaching (considered a “master teacher” or instructional coach)
  • Recruiting, hiring, mentoring and retaining talented, diverse, mission-aligned teachers
  • Supporting critical conversations in the development of inclusive culture, pedagogy, policies and programs.
  • Articulating  vision and strategy, the tactical skills necessary to deftly manage the systems and processes necessary to implement strategy, the organizational fluency to manage multiple streams of information and respond to situations as they emerge.
  • Complex and innovative problem-solving
  • Strength-based teacher development
  • Process-oriented work with an ability to consistently meet deadlines
  • Written and oral communication for multiple constituents/audiences
  • Collaboration and effective team-work with diverse (in all dimensions) colleagues
  • Team and community-building
  • Keeping focus and equilibrium in difficult moments and conversations, and celebrating school/colleagues’ successes and contributions in public and private ways

Ideal Attributes:

• Finds resonance with the mission and values of UHS
• Humble and authentic leader with a relational leadership style built on approachability, transparency, and responsiveness.
• High EQ
• The flexibility and collaborative spirit necessary to partner with other members of the senior administrative team, department heads, deans, and faculty members.
• spirit of curiosity that fuels pursuit of evolving best practices and current research on curriculum and pedagogy.
• Proactive as well as responsive
• Seeks out feedback and is able to incorporate it
• Holds teachers and teaching in high regard while also holding student curiosity, esteem and learning as the goal of effective teaching
• Enjoys collaborative problem-solving
• Willing to rethink and revise an approach as situations change
• Values learning, growth, and community

TO APPLY:

If you are interested in being a candidate, please submit a résumé and cover letter using the online application system.

NON-DISCRIMINATION

San Francisco University High School is an equal-opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. School policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, creed, gender, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition including genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.