WORK AT CCS
Charleston Collegiate School is an independent day school that strives to recognize, nurture, and challenge each of its students. Organized as a Lower School (PK-4), Middle School (5-8), and Upper School (9-12).
Our teachers are creative, energetic, highly-skilled, and passionate about collaborative learning. They employ a hands-on, "teacher as coach" methodology and are able to connect educational lessons to life experiences. Our teachers have a proven track record of success with diverse learners, and their teaching methods incorporate problem-solving in the classroom and innovatively use technology in the students' learning experiences.
Great team work, room for advancement, and friendly people who care about the students they serve. Productive environment . Flexible staff and curriculum!
Available Career Opportunities
Teaching
Lower School
Substitute Teachers
Charleston Collegiate School maintains a list of qualified Substitute Teachers to help us throughout the year. This is an opportunity to join a truly innovative and collaborative teaching team and to work with amazing students in a caring environment.
Successful candidates are positive, creative, and energetic persons with a desire to work with children of all ages.
Essential Qualifications:
- Experience working with children
- A positive ‘can-do’ attitude and growth mindset
- A love for working with children and young people
Desirable Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree
- Experience in a classroom setting
Middle and Upper School
Middle School Science
Charleston Collegiate School is currently seeking an experienced, dynamic, and nurturing Middle School Science Teacher for the 2022-2023 school year. This is a rare opportunity to join a talented and innovative teaching team.
We particularly welcome candidates that have experience of working with 5th and 6th grade students, and are committed to the delivery of science through enriching and rigorous projects. A commitment to interdisciplinary learning, and developing other essential skills such as writing is key.
Candidates should not only have excellent teaching and interpersonal skills but also possess a deep understanding of developmentally appropriate curriculum, a passion for working with 5th and 6th grade students, and a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The Science Teacher should have:
● Dedication to diversity, equity and inclusion
● Experience teaching in middle school grades
● Understanding of the developmental needs of middle school students
● Competence with student-centered instructional approaches such as project-based learning
● An inquisitive professional learning stance
● Ability to work collaboratively within a fast-paced environment
● Excellent written and verbal communication skills
● Knowledge of technology to enhance teaching and learning
● Experience partnering with parents and guardians
Primary Responsibilities:
● Provide direct, differentiated instruction for students, focusing on 21st century skills like collaboration, critical thinking, and problem solving.
● Evaluate student growth, progress and areas for improvement.
● Implement instructional strategies and use clear and consistent classroom management in concert with the school’s core values and philosophy.
● Identify, select, modify, and create instructional resources to meet the needs of students with varying backgrounds, learning styles, and learning needs, in collaboration with grade level teammates.
● Provide instruction through student-centered instructional methods.
● Use classroom management systems that are focused on students’ social emotional needs.
● Provide a positive environment in which students are able to engage actively in meaningful learning experiences.
● Communicate and partner effectively with students, parents, teachers, and other professionals on a regular basis.
● Model professional and ethical standards when working with students, families, and colleagues.
Educational Requirements:
● A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Math, Science or a related field.
Upper School STEM, Math & Physics
Charleston Collegiate School is an independent day school that strives to recognize, nurture, and challenge each of its students. Organized as a Lower School (PK-4), Middle School (5-8), and Upper School (9-12), CCS prides itself on being an independent, co-educational, non-sectarian, prekindergarten through 12th grade, located just outside of Charleston’s metropolitan area. Charleston Collegiate School offers a thirty-acre campus of vast playing fields and wooded trails and is located only twenty minutes from Charleston’s historic district on one side and Kiawah Island on the other.
CCS has a challenging, yet supportive, learning community that coaches students to become lifelong learners. A CCS education uses the pillars of project-based learning, financial literacy & entrepreneurship, artistic expression, and leadership through outdoor education to teach a high-quality education to a diverse student body.
Charleston Collegiate School is currently seeking an experienced, dynamic, and nurturing Math and Physics Teacher for the 2022-2023 school year. We particularly welcome candidates that can offer Algebra II, Statistics, Pre-Calculus and Physics, although all upper school math subjects applicants are welcome and will be considered. Candidates should not only have excellent teaching and interpersonal skills but also possess a deep understanding of developmentally appropriate curriculum, a passion for working with high school students, and a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The Math & Physics Teacher should have:
● Dedication to diversity, equity and inclusion
● Experience teaching in high school grades
● Understanding of the developmental needs of high school students
● Competence with student-centered instructional approaches such as project-based learning ● An inquisitive professional learning stance
● Ability to work collaboratively within a fast-paced environment
● Excellent written and verbal communication skills
● Knowledge of technology to enhance teaching and learning
● Experience partnering with parents and guardians
Primary Responsibilities:
● Provide direct, differentiated instruction for students, focusing on 21st century skills like collaboration, critical thinking, and problem solving.
● Evaluate student growth, progress and areas for improvement.
● Implement instructional strategies and use clear and consistent classroom management in concert with the school’s core values and philosophy.
● Identify, select, modify, and create instructional resources to meet the needs of students with varying backgrounds, learning styles, and learning needs, in collaboration with grade level teammates.
● Provide instruction through student-centered instructional methods.
● Use classroom management systems that are focused on students’ social emotional needs.
● Provide a positive environment in which students are able to engage actively in meaningful learning experiences.
● Communicate and partner effectively with students, parents, teachers, and other professionals on a regular basis.
● Model professional and ethical standards when working with students, families, and colleagues.
Educational Requirements:
● A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Math, Science or a related field.
Substitute Teachers
Charleston Collegiate School maintains a list of qualified Substitute Teachers to help us throughout the year. This is an opportunity to join a truly innovative and collaborative teaching team and to work with amazing students in a caring environment.
Successful candidates are positive, creative, and energetic persons with a desire to work with children of all ages.
Essential Qualifications:
- Experience working with children
- A positive ‘can-do’ attitude and growth mindset
- A love for working with children and young people
Desirable Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree
- Experience in a classroom setting
Administrative
Capital Campaign Director
Charleston Collegiate School seeks a Capital Campaign Director to lead a major capital campaign. The position is available immediately, and is funded for two years, or until the Campaign is designated as completed. A large focus of the position will involve cultivation and solicitation of major gifts to the campaign.
The Capital Campaign Director is a member of the Development team and will work closely will the Development Director and the Communications Manager. The position may require some travel and some evening and weekend responsibilities to be successful.
The Capital Campaign Director will design, develop, and implement the campaign from implementation to conclusion. He/she will be responsible for managing and cultivating relationships with existing major gift prospects, as well as identifying new prospects. An ability to empathize with donors and clearly communicate our organization’s mission is key.
Responsibilities include, but are not restricted to:
- Helping our donors accomplish their philanthropic goals and ambitions through a relationship with our organization
- Managing systems and software to track and cultivate donors and prospects, including our donor database and other tools.
- Working with the development department to align efforts and set goals
- Creating and implementing appropriate marketing efforts.
- Making direct, face-to-face solicitations, and assisting the board and other staff with their solicitation (e.g., provide portfolio development support, strategic counsel, and help with donor communications)
- Acknowledging donors through public and private recognition.
- Tracking and reporting progress using specific metrics.
- Maintaining master campaign calendar to maximize cultivation events and keep campaign committee on track.
- Organizing and monitoring volunteer assignments and follow-up, and assisting in all aspects of volunteer-led events.
Qualifications:
CCS seeks a seasoned, responsible, focused individual, with outstanding organizational skills and high level of accuracy. Experience in and knowledge of fundraising, specifically capital campaigns, is required.
The successful candidate will be highly organized, self-motivated, detail-oriented, creative, strategic, professional and able to manage multiple projects under tight deadlines. Excellent writing, analytical, and research skills are essential. Candidates must have a high level of computer literacy, including experience using online databases and other sources to locate financial and philanthropic information, and possess exceptional interpersonal skills and an ability to work collaboratively with all levels of staff, volunteers, Board members, donors, and prospective donors.
Bachelor’s degree is required. Three to five years fundraising experience relevant to the responsibilities is preferred.
Compensation will be commensurate with experience and may be tied to the success of the Campaign.
Substitute Teachers
Athletics
Camp
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