The full-time equivalent salary range for this position is $225,000-$275,000. The starting salary is based upon, but not limited to, several factors that include years of experience, education level, and expertise.
Required Education:
4 Year Degree
Overview
Founded by Maria Bowen Chapin in 1901, The Chapin School is an all-girls Kindergarten through grade 12 independent day school located in New York City’s Upper East Side neighborhood, dedicated to the intellectual and personal growth of young women. All Chapin students attend school under one roof, creating a unique sense of continuity and community. Here, students benefit from some of the finest, state-of-the-art facilities in New York including a two-story library with a multimedia room, leading-edge science laboratories, art and music studios, a black box theater, computer laboratories, a design and innovation lab, and a greenhouse. In May 2021, the School’s campaign contributed to significant enhancements to the campus with the expansion of three new floors featuring a performing arts center, gymnasium, fitness center, suspended track, locker rooms, offices, and a training room. In addition to the state-of-the-art athletic facilities, the new space includes a fenced-in rooftop turf field and playground.
Since its inception, Chapin has upheld its historic commitment to offering the most challenging academic curriculum while also teaching social, emotional, and life skills that set the stage for students’ success in this century. Guided by its motto, Fortiter et Recte (Strongly and Rightly), Chapin considers bravery, compassion, service, and respect for self and others to be fundamental values. Alongside these core values envisioned by Miss Chapin, the school puts a premium on the ability to communicate, use and manage information, collaborate in diverse teams, and think critically and creatively about issues and problems. The school’s educational plan is designed to strengthen these capacities and to ensure that Chapin graduates leave with a lifelong love of learning, resiliency, perseverance, and understanding of the value of helping others. The school is committed to diversity in its culture, curriculum, and program and aims, always, to create an inclusive and equitable community.
The Head of the Middle School oversees the Middle School program (grades 4-7) by providing instructional and organizational leadership to the faculty in the Middle School division, monitoring the academic and personal growth of each student, and promoting and supporting the professional growth of the faculty. The Head of the Middle School builds and maintains relationships with students, teachers, and parents in order to sustain a vibrant educational community that supports the mission of the school. Compelling candidates will be a student-centered, collaborative, and innovative educators who are fully committed to students’ development of curiosity, creativity, and integrity.
Mission
The Chapin School is dedicated to empowering a diverse, ambitious, and resolute community of young women to thrive and lead in their world.
Chapin’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB)
All Chapin students and professional community members are valued and appreciated for their unique identities, including their diverse backgrounds, perspectives, talents, and interests. We expect Chapin faculty to employ culturally informed, equity-focused teaching practices in order to reach all students and ensure they are known and understood. Each individual belongs to and is an integral part of our affirming and joyful learning community. To support this commitment, Chapin actively seeks diversity in its faculty, staff, and student body.
Job Overview
The Head of Middle School oversees the Middle School program by providing instructional and organizational leadership to the faculty and staff in the Middle School division, monitoring the academic and personal growth of each student and promoting and supporting the professional growth of the faculty and staff. The Head of Middle School along with the Associate Head of Middle School builds and maintains relationships with students, teachers, and parents in order to sustain a vibrant educational community that supports the mission of the school.
Chapin’s next Middle School Division Head will be:
A school leader who demonstrates a commitment to tradition and innovation, and interdisciplinary curriculum development who
Works closely with the Director of Academic Program and academic department heads on the development of curriculum that reflects Chapin’s mission and promotes Chapin’s strategic initiatives
Ensures that the academic class schedule for Middle School supports the academic program and advances academic initiatives;
Creates a program that meets the needs of students in grades 4-7 while maintaining K-12 alignment especially for the transition points (3-4 and 7-8);
A student-centered educator who values each student’s voice and experience who
Works with the Head of the Student Learning Support Department to assess programmatic needs and individual student progress, and to initiate recommendations as necessary;
Partners with the Admissions department in interviewing and screening all Middle School applicants;
Works with members of Counseling Services to monitor individual and group social/emotional needs
Supervises and meets regularly with the Class Coordinators as a group and individually to monitor the progress of each class and individual students;
Ensures the success of the Middle School Advisory program;
An educational leader who actively cultivates a student, faculty and staff community of belonging by
Hiring, supervising and evaluating all Middle School faculty and staff;
Creating an agenda for leading weekly division meetings with MS faculty and staff;
Supervising the MS Community Service/Service-Learning Coordinator;
Meeting regularly with the Middle School members of the Department of Equitable Practices;
A partner to colleagues, students and parents by
Overseeing all grades, comments, and related communications with parents, in both written reports and during scheduled conferences;
Collaborating with colleagues and parents to support students experiencing disciplinary or social issues;
Partnering with the Chief Finance & Operations Officer (CFOO) to prepare and manage the annual budget for the division;
Supervising the Assistant to the Head of Middle School and the Associate Head of Middle School, ensuring smooth administrative operation of the division;
Serving on the Senior Administrative Team to review policies, and to develop and implement strategic initiatives;
Collaborating with the Parents' Association, leading parent meetings and parent education workshops, and communicating regularly with the parent body.
Qualifications and Personal Attributes
The ideal candidate(s) will offer most or all of the following qualifications and qualities:
Finds joy in working with Middle School students and their teachers and guardians;
Experience leading and supervising faculty and staff;
Personal and professional commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging and the requisite skills to support critical conversations in the design of an even more inclusive culture, curriculum, and pedagogy;
Exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with confidence, inspiration, and clarity across a wide range of audiences;
Experience recruiting, hiring, supporting, retaining, and leading talented, diverse, and mission-aligned faculty and staff;
The ability to articulate vision and strategy and to employ the tactical skills to nimbly implement the necessary systems and processes.
A history of thoughtful innovation moderated by a skillful and sensitive approach to change;
Desire to engage actively and visibly in the life of the school; and
Commitment to lifelong learning; An advanced degree preferred.
OUR MISSION
The Chapin School is dedicated to empowering a diverse, ambitious and resolute community of young women to thrive and lead in their world. Guided by our motto, Fortiter et Recte, Chapin considers bravery, compassion, service and respect for self and others to be fundamental values. We believe that equity, inclusion and collaboration are critical to personal growth. By advancing and deepening each student’s agency, confidence and resilience within an affirming and joyful learning environment, Chapin strives to ensure that each student is emboldened to pursue distinction as a leader and contributing citizen.
ABOUT US
The Chapin School, founded in 1901, is an independent, all-girls day school in New York City currently serving 802 students K–12.
Chapin’s signature Focus Forward strategic plan, which guided our work for more than a decade, intensified Chapin’s historic commitment to offering the most challenging academic curriculum while also teaching the social, emotional and other skills that will set the stage for its students’ success in this century. Chapin’s institutional priorities continue to be imbued with the spirit of Focus Forward. We have fine-tuned our... articulation of the School’s purpose as we approach the third decade of the 21st century. A forward-focused learning community whose symbol is a wheel will never cease to strive toward achieving its vision of cultivating in girls the skills and attributes that will allow them to be brave for themselves and for others.
UNDER ONE ROOF
Chapin’s single building provides a unified learning environment under one roof for all students, the 128 faculty members who teach them and the 85 staff members who support all other aspects of school life. An ambitious construction project to be completed in 2020 will feature an entire floor dedicated to the arts and a gymnasium with suspended running track—all with spectacular views of our urban location. The Hayot Center for Innovation, to open in 2020, will provide our entire learning community the opportunity to extend our commitment to interdisciplinary inquiry-based investigations and explorations, deepening students’ interests through experimentation, invention and the development of out-of-the-box solutions to complex issues.
Our vibrant, inspiring and welcoming new spaces will further our commitment to a forward- focused learning environment that enables all students to embrace the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century to the best of their abilities. With these exciting new spaces as a canvas, we renew our pledge to develop curriculum and pedagogy that reflect current research and best practices, always placing each student at the center of her own learning.
