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• Director of Lower School

  Title: Director of Lower School
  Reports to: Head of School
  Classification: Full-time, exempt
  Location: San Francisco, California; on campus
  Start date: July 1, 2027 
  
  The Opportunity
  The incoming director will inherit significant strengths: talented educators, curious children, highly engaged families, and colleagues who value collaboration. Building on a decade of steady leadership by the previous lower school director, the next director will honor what is working while bringing renewed coherence, clarity, and possibility to the K–4 experience. This is a role for someone who loves both big questions and the daily work of school: visiting classrooms, coaching teachers, interpreting student needs, communicating with families, and turning shared aspirations into strong systems and excellent practice.  
  
  The Role
  The Director of Lower School works closely with the Director of Middle School and Director of Jewish Learning and collaborates with leaders in student support, technology and making, admissions, advancement, operations, and auxiliary programs. The role offers real scope for leadership and real partnership: Brandeis seeks someone who listens carefully, makes sound decisions, communicates them clearly, and carries work through to completion. 
  
  Teaching and Learning
  

  • Lead curriculum, instruction, and assessment across kindergarten through fourth grade, ensuring strong foundations, intellectual rigor, creativity, differentiation, ethical reflection, and joy.
  • Guide curriculum review and mapping to strengthen coherence within grades, alignment across grades and disciplines, and the transition into fifth grade.
  • Use multiple forms of evidence, including classroom observation, student work, assessment data, and teacher insight, to identify strengths and priorities for improvement.
  • Partner across programs so that general studies, Jewish studies, Hebrew, technology and making, the arts, and student support form a connected learning experience. 

  
  Faculty Leadership and Professional Culture
  

  • Recruit, orient, supervise, evaluate, and retain excellent educators in partnership with the Head of School and other relevant leaders.
  • Maintain a visible presence in classrooms and provide timely, actionable feedback that helps teachers refine practice and expand their capacity.
  • Build effective and sustainable teams with clear expectations, healthy communication, strong meeting practices, mutual support, professional accountability, and attention to morale.
  • Lead professional learning and develop teacher leadership through mentoring, collaboration, reflection, and well-aligned growth opportunities. 

  
  Students, Families, and Community
  

  • Know students well and coordinate with teachers, families, and student-support professionals to advance their academic, social-emotional, spiritual, behavioral, and physical growth.
  • Create consistency in student culture, including expectations, routines, behavioral guidelines, restorative responses, and developmentally appropriate discipline.
  • Serve as a principal interpreter of the Lower School program so that students, families, and colleagues understand expectations, decisions, and the purposes behind the work.
  • Build strong family–school relationships, listening well and balancing family perspectives, faculty expertise, student needs, and the mission and goals of the school. 

  
  Institutional Leadership
  

  • Advise and partner with the Head of School and senior leadership team on educational strategy, personnel, culture, family matters, and the ongoing development of the school.
  • Translate vision into workable systems, collaborating across departments on priorities, calendar, scheduling, staffing, budgeting, admissions, advancement, safety, and community events.
  • Represent the Lower School and Brandeis with prospective families, trustees, donors, peer schools, and community partners, and share responsibility for the broader life of the school. 

  
  The Candidate Who Will Thrive in This Role
  Brandeis seeks an educator who is confident enough to lead, humble enough to learn, and curious enough to understand the particular people, traditions, and possibilities of this community. 
  

  • A joyful collaborator. Builds ideas and solutions with others and creates conditions in which colleagues can contribute meaningfully. 
  •  A soulful and grounded leader. Brings steadiness, warmth, moral clarity, and humanity to ordinary interactions and difficult moments.
  • An instructional leader. Knows excellent elementary teaching, helps others strengthen practice, and connects classroom observations to larger curricular questions.
  • A doer and trusted communicator. Moves from vision to execution, manages complexity, writes and speaks with care, and navigates disagreement constructively.
  • An inclusive and reflective community builder. Is energized by the diversity of San Francisco and Jewish communal life, seeks feedback and evidence, and works so that every child, family, and colleague experiences belonging. 

  
  Experience and Qualifications
  

  • Substantial elementary classroom teaching experience and meaningful school leadership responsibility.
  • Demonstrated skill in curriculum, instruction, assessment, differentiation, adult learning, faculty supervision and evaluation, and team development.
  • A record of productive relationships with students, colleagues, and highly engaged families in a diverse and inclusive school community.
  • Excellent judgment, organization, follow-through, written communication, and public speaking skills.
  • A bachelor’s degree is required; an advanced degree is strongly preferred. Independent-school or Jewish-day-school experience strongly preferred as well; genuine commitment to Jewish education, values, and community life is essential. 

  Interested in applying, click here for more info

• Substitute Teacher

  Position Title: Substitute Teacher
  FLSA Classification: Non-Exempt

  Position Purpose: Substitute for General Studies and/or Judaic Studies Teachers
  

  Daily Rate: Sub less than four hours - $112.50

  Daily Rate: Sub four hours or more - $225.00 

   

  The Brandeis School of San Francisco seeks a substitute teacher for our students. The Brandeis School of San Francisco inspires students to lead lives of learning and purpose. We provide a challenging academic environment and a welcoming inclusive community, each deeply enriched by Jewish thought, values, and traditions.

   

  Essential Functions:

  • Teach a creative course of study in a developmentally appropriate manner.
  • Follow, develop and enhance the existing curriculum.
  • Create an inclusive classroom environment through regular class meetings, supportive exchanges with students, and clear expectations for community behavior.
  • Collaborate with other teachers, educators, and specialists.

  • Be a positive and contributing member of the professional community.
  • Support and follow the School policies and procedures.

  
  Qualifications:

  • B.A. degree
  • Must be at least 18 years of age.
  • Have a current TB Assessment.
  • Must take and clear a fingerprint test and background check.
  • Must have demonstrated abilities to supervise and guide multi-level-aged students.
  • Must have a ready smile and enjoy working with school-aged youth.
  • Possess a working knowledge of libraries and resources.
  • Must be responsible, calm, and assertive while supervising youth ages 6-15, setting strong boundaries regarding their safety, well-being, and interactions with other students.
  • Recent experience working with K-8 students in a classroom setting.
  • Ability to follow and implement lesson plans.
  • Ability to work both independently and cooperatively with others.
  • Demonstrated classroom management skills.
  • Flexible about working with elementary and/or middle school children.
  • Hebrew language skills are a plus.
  • Teaching credentials preferred.

  
  Physical Requirements and Work Environment:

  • Regularly sit, stand, talk, and listen.
  • Be able to occasionally lift up to 30 lbs.
  • Turn, bend, reach, and occasionally use a ladder.
  • Must be able to work in an outdoor West-San Francisco environment (often foggy and cold) and a climate-controlled classroom.

  
  Qualified candidates are encouraged to submit a resume and cover letter to jobs@sfbrandeis.org. We respectfully ask that you do not contact the school directly.