We are currently accepting applications for the following positions. For more information please email resumes@greenwoodschool.org.
Human Resources Generalist
Job Title: Human Resources Generalist
FLSA Status: Exempt
Payroll Status: Temporary Six month, Full time
SUMMARY
The Human Resources Recruitment Generalist position provides GWS with dedicated full service general Human Resources support as well as specialized HR services as appropriate. This position supports the organization’s mission and will be expected to work both on site and at a home office. The Human Resources Generalist position has no direct reports.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Provides direct, “hands on”, and comprehensive staff recruitment support to GWS, including posting job announcements, reviewing applications, phone screening candidates, briefing selection groups in preparation for interviews, coordinating interview processes, following up with candidates as appropriate, and documenting hiring processes. Primary support person for hiring committee.
Works in partnership with staff to support employee relation and performance issues.
Responsible for reviewing, co-developing and rolling out annual staff evaluation process
Interprets HR related policies, processes, procedures, and practices to ensure appropriate compliance with relevant Federal, state, and local labor laws, regulations and court cases.
Manages all employee documentation and personnel files to ensure completeness and legal compliance.
Partners effectively with the staff to ensure a high level of consistency of professional HR ‘best practices’ when providing service to customers.
Support Business Manager with payroll and benefits processing
Conducts and/or co-develops general employee and benefits orientation with colleagues to welcome all new staff to GWS in a consistent and hospitable way so that entry into the work culture is smooth and seamless. This includes sharing a general understanding of GWS employment policies, processes, practices, procedures.
Researches, and provides recommendations covering a wide variety of HR recruitment and staff engagement practices such as compensation, job performance competencies, internal and external HR communication practices and exit interviews, as needed for GWS.
Coordinates and leads HR special projects assigned from time to time. These may include applicant tracking, cutting edge hiring and selection tools; website updates; staff and parent surveys and employee handbook updates to name a few.
Provides coordination monitoring and logistical support for professional development events in partnership with key staff
On occasions will be asked to fill in on internal operational needs during times of staffing shortage or illness
Liaisons with legal counsel when needed around employment issues.
Experience and/or Education
Requires a four-year college degree in Human Resources Management, Industrial Relations, Business Administration, English, Communications, Psychology or related field.
Requires a minimum of five (5) years of experience managing the employment continuum function from recruitment to engagement in the nonprofit, educational, public sector, and/or cultural environment.
Requires demonstrable experience using professional Human Resources ‘best practices’ on a regular basis. This includes learning, both formal and informal, and skill enhancement via certification, workshops, seminars, and classes.
Requires demonstrable experience providing Human Resources support in a multi-customer or multi-department environment.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Must have a strong working knowledge of Human Resources Management ‘best practices’ and policies, procedures, and processes.
Must have comprehensive working knowledge of Federal, state, and local labor laws, guidelines and relevant employment court cases.
Must have superior communications and persuasive skills, both written and verbal.
Must have team skills (cooperation, collaboration, creativity and conflict management)
Must have the ability to build trust and provide high level customer service to all constituents.
Must have high emotional and social intelligence.
Must be a motivated self starter.
Must have the ability to train, coach, mentor, and motivate all levels of staff.
Must have the ability to thrive in a changing work environment.
Must have the ability to balance competing demands and satisfy the conflicting needs of a multi-customer-based constituency with tact and diplomacy.
Must have strong analytical and research skills
Must have project management skills (planning and organizational skills)
Must have a good working knowledge of intermediate Microsoft Office software applications (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access).
SCOPE OF AUTHORITY Selects plans of action relating to employment issues, based on parameters established by GWS policies and practices, and consistent with appropriate labor law requirements and guidelines.
PHYSICAL DEMANDSThe following physical requirements are established to support the successful incumbent’s ability to perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Must be able to clearly communicate with others to understand them and to be understood.
Must be able to read and compose documents so that their intent is easily understood.
Must be able to lift at least ten pounds from the floor to four (4) feet above the floor.
Must be able to effectively use a computer and telephone to conduct business.
Must be able to maneuver between two (3) floors and within small office spaces.
SALARY
Commensurate with experience and education, including formal and informal.
The school has reached the stage where, for the first time, it wishes to appoint a single “Head of School”. The successful candidate will find a thriving community, a warm and caring environment, a dedicated and experienced faculty and deeply committed parents. As the school expands from its present K-6 to a full K-8 enrollment over the next few years its growth requirements will present a variety of exciting challenges to the entire community and the new School Director will need to lead all the key aspects of this change whilst protecting and enhancing the unique ethos and climate of the Greenwood School.
Naturalist/Nature & Environmental Studies (NEST) Teacher - Fall 2008
Greenwood is an independent Waldorf-inspired school, K-8, located in Mill Valley (Marin County), California. Although the town is only 10 minutes north of San Francisco, it is nestled at the foot of Mt. Tamalpais, and is surrounded by hundreds of acres of open space, with access to beaches and incomparable coastline.
One of the distinguishing qualities of Greenwood School is its Nature / Environmental Studies (NEST) Program. Through our Nature / Environmental Studies (NEST) program, Greenwood School integrates experiential, inquiry-based science, ecological values and environmental awareness beginning in kindergarten through 8th grade. One day each week, class is held away from the confinements of desks and chairs and into the natural world. This outdoor classroom is held in a redwood grove, walking distance from the school, at satellite campuses at Slide Ranch, Green Gulch, and Point Bonita, or on a field trip exploring the biologically diverse and rich landscape of the Bay Area.
Naturalists for each class engage the students deeply in studying the interconnections within nature, environmental stewardship, local plant and animal life, geology, and ecology. The children are led on hikes, create nature crafts, nature journals and poetry as well as observe and experience natural processes. In the middle school years, the NEST program shifts focus from a program emphasizing play, wonder, and reverence to observation, question/hypothesis, inductive/deductive thought and a capacity to move between a variety of mediums in expressing knowledge of what has been discovered. The curriculum content of Greenwood’s NEST program incorporates the National Science Standards, Waldorf Science Curriculum, and the California Science State Framework.
3rd Grade NEST Program:
We currently are seeking a naturalist/Nature Environmental Studies teacher for the 3rd grade. The curriculum focus in the 3rd grade is centered around the theme of agriculture. And how humans consciously utilize the earth while encouraging stewardship for the planet’s ecology. One day each week, children are led on hikes as well as visit local sustainable farms to observe and participate in farm life. Greenwood participates in the Farm Field Study Program through Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) as well as visit coastal organic farms along the coast on a continual and seasonal basis.
We seek an extraordinary individual with a high degree of integrity and commitment to working in a collaborative manner - a flexible person of openness, honesty and a willingness to grow, who will make a positive and lasting impression upon the lives of our children.
Candidates need to have a strong science background with BA/BS and/or advanced degree in science and teaching experience as well as an understanding of Waldorf education. Candidates are expected to provide logistical, instructional and content leading to a total sensory immersion for no more than 24 students per grade. A willingness to engage with the educational work of Rudolf Steinir and an inquiry-based curriculum is an advantage. Compensation: $50/hr for one 6-hour school day per week
We welcome your resume along with a letter of intent that touches on your life experience, education, teaching experiences, relationship to children and areas of strengths and interests. We also ask that you submit three references from people who know your work whom we could contact by phone.
Please email to resumes@greenwoodschool.org or mail to 17 Buena Vista Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941. Phone (415) 388-0495. Fax (415) 388-6895
1st Grade Teacher - Fall 2008
Send us your resume today! Vibrant. Inquisitive. Inspired. These words both describe the Greenwood School and the First Grade Teacher we seek. Ours is an independent K-8 Waldorf-inspired school located in Mill Valley (just north of the Golden Gate Bridge) in California. Come join our incredible team! The school currently has 12 full-time and 16 part-time teachers and 155 students. In our 16th year, Greenwood offers our students the many strengths associated with a Waldorf-style curriculum while also integrating contemporary programs to stay current with the changing world.
We seek an experienced, Waldorf-trained teacher ready to be a long-term faculty member, who sees education as a creative pursuit and truly loves to be with children. The ideal applicant will be a team-player, with excellent classroom management and communication skills A broad general education in the Arts and Sciences (e.g. a BA/BS degree or higher academic qualification) will be advantageous, as it is our intention for the first grade teacher to teach the class through eighth grade. Your students will come from two Kindergartens led by Waldorf teachers with 40+ years of experience between them. Your class size will be a maximum of 24 students.
Salary is in the range $50,000-$70,000, based on teaching experience, with excellent benefits including full medical and dental benefits as well as a 401(K) retirement plan. At Greenwood School, you will participate in the creative and organizational duties of the school as well as be active in continuing professional development. There is a very experienced Waldorf faculty with strong mentoring for less-experienced staff.
Our programs include: Spanish, Eurythmy, Strings, Woodwork, Handwork, Games, Earthwork, Choral singing and second languages which are class-specific, ranging from Japanese to Welsh and Afrikaans. In addition each student spends one day per week outdoors in nature, involved in our Nature/Environmental Studies (NEST) program which fosters reverence, wonder and stewardship of the natural world, while incorporating an age-appropriate science program. As a member of our distinguished faculty, you will join our vibrant and growing school in our quest to provide a superb, holistic education that will best prepare our students for their futures.
The town of Mill Valley provides a charming setting, nestled on the lower slopes of majestic Mt. Tamalpais in the south of Marin County. With a population of almost 14,000, Mill Valley was named by a national magazine, Money, as the 10th best city in the nation to live. Just 15minutes drive north of San Francisco, this historic Northern Californian mill town sits among redwood-lined canyons just a few miles from Pacific Ocean beaches and 45 minutes from Sonoma and Napa wine country and Point Reyes National Seashore.
We welcome your resume along with a letter of interest that touches on your life experience, education, teaching experiences and educational philosophy. We also ask that you submit three references from people who know your work whom we could contact by phone.
Please write to: resumes@greenwoodschool.org.
Greenwood School, 17 Buena Vista Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941 USA Phone:415-388-0495 Fax:415-388-6895
Extended Day Teacher (Grades 1 -6) - Fall 2008
Greenwood School, a small Waldorf-inspired K-8 elementary school located in downtown Mill Valley, Marin County, 20 minutes north of San Francisco, is currently recruiting a teacher to lead the after school Extended Day Programs for Grades 1 – 6 on Mondays through Fridays during the school year and to organize the holiday camps and enrichment programs for the same grades. We are looking for an enthusiastic and creative individual who loves to work with young children. We prefer that the candidate for this position will be able to not only facilitate games, crafts and activities themselves, but also coordinate and oversee the smooth running of our program’s various electives (e.g. gymnastics, arts & crafts, volley ball, soccer, kayaking, sailing, rock-climbing, capoeira, middle school Honors classes and taiko drumming). Some organizational skills will therefore be of great benefit to the work. The ideal candidate is an all-rounder who can provide everything from healthy snacks to simple first-aid. We envision that our Extended Day Program not only compliment the rest of the educational offering at our school, but that it can also provide our students with a “home away from home” while their parents are still at work. The position will demand 100% commitment from 2 – 5:30pm on school days and it is possible that this position can grow into a more permanent position in the future. There are lots of opportunities to create more income through the creation, organization and coordination of holiday activities and summer camps. A willingness to engage with the educational work of Rudolf Steiner is an absolute must! Our experienced faculty is willing to provide the right candidate with in-service training as part of our continuing support and enthusiasm for this pioneering initiative at our vibrant and growing school. This is a part-time position with hourly remuneration and no other benefits.
Please contact the Hiring Committee with your letter of interest, resume and at least 3 contactable references at: resumes@greenwoodschool.org
Assistant/s: Nature Day & Environmental Studies - Fall 2008
Greenwood School, a small Waldorf-inspired K-8 elementary school located in downtown Mill Valley, Marin County, 20 minutes north of San Francisco, is currently recruiting assistants in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Grade Nature Day & Environmental Sciences (NEST) Program. Our students spend 1 day per week out in the woods, fields, creeks and wetlands of southern Marin where they, through a total sensory immersion into the elements, and through the experience of awe and wonder out in nature, are training to become future scientists, environmental activists and citizens of the earth. We are looking for enthusiastic and creative individuals who love to work with young children. Candidates for these positions will be expected to provide logistical, instructional and content assistance to the naturalists leading these experiential, systems-based inquiry programs for no more than 24 students per grade. Learning and fun are not mutually exclusive areas of the Greenwood NEST Program and we are therefore looking for special individuals who can assist in the dynamic, lively and healthily structured outdoor experiences of our students. The NEST Program requires a certain level of physical fitness and the ability to contribute through humor and good will, to an experience that leaves the children nourished and with a twinkle in the eyes at the end of each Nature or Environmental Studies Day! A willingness to engage with the educational work of Rudolf Steiner would be an advantage.
Please contact the Hiring Committee with your letter of interest, resume
and at least 3 contactable references at:
resumes@greenwoodschool.org
Assistant: Kindergarten Extended Day Program - Fall 2008
Greenwood School, a small Waldorf-inspired K-8 elementary school located in downtown Mill Valley, Marin County, 20 minutes north of San Francisco, is currently recruiting an assistant for our kindergarten extended day program. Starting daily at 11am, the assistant provides support to the kindergartens at Greenwood during their outside play time and to the lead teacher in an extended day program that is well attended by students and held with great care and love by the kindergarten faculty and extended day teacher. The day usually ends at 3pm, but flexibility will be required from the candidate for this position to work until the work is done. We are therefore looking for a special individual who can assist in the dynamic, lively and healthily structured experiences of our students in an environment that strives to be a home-away-from-home for each student. A willingness to engage with the educational work of Rudolf Steiner would be an advantage.
Please contact the Hiring Committee with your letter of interest, resume
and at least 3 contactable references at: resumes@greenwoodschool.org
17 Buena Vista Avenue - Mill Valley, California 94941 - Tel: 415.388.0495 - Fax: 415.388.6895
