Employment

At Town School, our vibrant community of faculty and staff values teaching, loves learning, finds joy in working together, and takes pride in leading boys’ education for a complex and unknown future.

Town School for Boys is a K-8 all boys' independent school located in San Francisco with approximately 415 students, of whom 49% come from self-identified families of color, and a faculty:student ratio of 1:6. Our diverse faculty and staff can be characterized by their warmth, collegiality, and dedication to our mission and values. At Town, learning is prized, love of school is essential, and boyhood is celebrated. For more information about Town School, please visit our Town Facts page.

Click through below to learn more about what makes working at Town great.

Faculty Benefits

Financial Benefits

Competitive faculty salaries benchmarked against state and local schools.
Regular full-time and part-time employees (excluding Resident Teachers) are eligible for a 403(B) retirement plan immediately upon hire with 10% employer contribution.
Pre-tax commuter benefits available.

Health Benefits

Regular full-time employees receive 100% coverage of individual premium for medical, dental, basic life and AD&D, and long-term disability.
Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for medical and dependent care.
Digital Wellness Card, which provides $0 unlimited online mental health visits, support for caregivers and access to wellness discounts.

PTO

Paid holidays according to the school calendar and handbook.
10 annual sick days.

Community and Growth

Robust professional development funding and graduate school assistance.
Employee happy hours and social events.
Free ticket to annual dinner/dance community event.
Daily delicious and healthy lunch and Friday continental breakfasts provided during the school year.
Generous faculty/staff appreciation treats sponsored by our Parents’ Association.
Employee wellness programming.

Staff Benefits

Financial Benefits

Competitive salaries benchmarked against state and local schools.
Regular full-time and part-time employees are eligible for a 403(B) retirement plan immediately upon hire with 10% employer contribution.
Pre-tax commuter benefits available.

Health Benefits

Regular full-time employees receive 100% coverage of individual premium for medical, dental, basic life and AD&D, and long-term disability.
Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for medical and dependent care.
Digital Wellness Card, which provides $0 unlimited online mental health visits, support for caregivers and access to wellness discounts.

Schedule and PTO

Paid holidays according to the school calendar and handbook.
Generous vacation package, with additional school closures.
10 annual sick days.
Remote days allocated for eligible employees.
Option for reduced summer hours depending on department needs.

Community and Growth

Professional development funds (budget permitting).
Employee happy hours and social events.
Free ticket to annual dinner/dance community event.
Daily delicious and healthy lunch and Friday continental breakfasts provided during the school year.
Generous faculty/staff appreciation treats sponsored by our Parents’ Association.
Employee wellness programming.

Our Culture

Faculty and staff are vital to the life of Town School both inside and outside of the classroom.

Teachers coach many of our athletic teams, support student government, chaperone outdoor education trips, facilitate service projects, run student-interest clubs, and serve on a variety of committees to advance key school initiatives. Upper School teachers also serve as advisors to small cohorts of boys.

Town provides numerous formal channels through which the faculty support each other, including the teacher-led Learning and Leadership Team, the Employee Wellness Committee, and a mentoring program for new faculty. Faculty and staff actively support, guide, and learn from each other in countless informal ways each day.

Our New Teacher Institute, a program at the heart of the school’s mission in which fifteen Resident Teachers join the faculty for two years and co-teach alongside Head Teachers across the school, fosters Town’s distinctive professional culture of curiosity, collaboration, and generosity of spirit. Among the current faculty and staff, 12 teachers and two administrators are alumni of the New Teacher Institute.

In our mission to be the best school for our students and families, our faculty and staff are committed to engaging in personal and professional growth.

Our faculty gather on Wednesday afternoons to discuss topics ranging from diversity, equity and inclusion to the digital lives of our students and ourselves.

Speakers at onsite professional development workshops have recently included Dr. Dave Anderson, Dr. Derrick Gay, Rosetta Lee, Dr. Kevin Mattingly, Dr. Michael Reichert, Ana Homayoun, and Sara Schaefer.

We annually send cohorts to the PoCC and White Privilege conferences, as well as the Institute for Social Emotional Learning, Learning and the Brain, and SHAPE America. Town supports many members of the faculty who choose to spend part of their summers continuing their professional development by attending conferences including PBL World with the Buck Institute for Education, taking educational trips, and participating in programs with the World Leadership School, Harvard’s Project Zero, and at the Klingenstein Center at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Faculty and staff also have the unique opportunity to teach and learn from each other through our use of our own version of personal learning communities—dedicated time for faculty cohorts to discuss and share practices and reflections driven by individual interest.

In addition, our professional development budget is robust in supporting training around school identified initiatives. And lastly, we have a strong new faculty/staff mentor program that begins with a multi-day stand-alone orientation and continues with monthly meetings to help those new to Town understand both practices and culture we hold dear.

Our administration and families value and celebrate the work of faculty and staff.

The Parents’ Association hosts an annual holiday party and lunch, provides occasional coffee carts, and brings in daily treats for Teacher Appreciation Week each spring.

Each member of the faculty and staff traditionally receives a generous bonus raised by the Parents’ Association in December.

At the conclusion of each school year, the Head of School awards several faculty members who embody the values we seek to instill in our boys and who go above and beyond in their teaching. Professional and personal milestones are recognized with gifts from the administration at a faculty and staff celebration at the end of the year.

Teachers receive classroom budgets, all supplies, and support from the administration and parents for field trips.

Our Hiring Process

Our faculty hiring season tends to run from January-April. Staff openings are filled on an ongoing basis as openings arise.

Every application to Town School is thoughtfully reviewed and evaluated. Once your application has been received through our hiring software platform, it will be reviewed by the appropriate hiring committee.

Qualified candidates will be contacted for an initial phone or video interview. Select candidates will then be invited to an on-campus interview, where they will meet with members of the hiring committee and other Town employees as relevant to the position for which they are applying, which may include the Head of School, Division Head(s), Director of Community Building and Inclusion, and/or Director of the New Teacher Institute. On-campus interviews for student-facing roles will also include a demo lesson, classroom observations, and discussion on a series of scenarios with the hiring committee.

Applications for staff positions will include an initial phone interview for qualified candidates followed by a campus visit and in-person interviews for finalists.

Non-Discrimination Policy: Town School for Boys admits students of any race, color, religion, sexual orientation, or national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. The school does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, or national and ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, scholarship programs, athletic and other school-administered programs.

Town School actively seeks to advance the equity and diversity of our community in our admissions and hiring. Town School for Boys is an equal opportunity employer. Salary and benefits are commensurate with or exceed those of our peer schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and with like NAIS schools.

New Teacher Institute: For information on our teacher training program, visit the New Teacher Institute page on this website.