This is a contracted, exempt employee that is paid on a salaried basis.
Required Spiritual Qualities
• Acknowledge Christ as Savior and seek to live life as His disciple.
• Believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative, inerrant Word of God—our standard for faith and practice.
• Believe and actively support the school’s Statement of Faith.
• Demonstrate a desire for spiritual growth as evidenced by his or her prayer life, Bible study, and spiritual outreach to others.
• Be a Christian role model in attitude, speech, and actions toward others (Luke 6:40). This includes being committed to God’s biblical standards for sexual conduct.
Evidence of the fruit of the Spirit in dealing with people.
Have a conviction that God has led him or her to work at a Christian School.
• Actively participate in a local Bible-believing church.
Required Professional Qualities:
• Hold, or be willing to obtain ACSI certification. (ACSI certification is a requirement and mandates the completion of an in-house Biblical training program.)
• Possess evidence of other adequate preparation, background, or experience as determined by the school administrator.
Required Personal Qualities:
• Demonstrate sensitivity towards staff, parents, volunteers, and children, and an ability to interact effectively with them.
• Have the spiritual maturity, academic ability, and personal leadership qualities to “train a child in the way he should go” (Prov. 22:6, NIV).Be an enthusiastic visionary, an encourager, and a self-starter with a high energy level.
• Recognize his or her own mistakes and take measures to correct them.
• Be a team player.
• Maintain a personal appearance that is a Christian role model of cleanliness, modesty, and good taste consistent with school policy.
Essential Job Functions:
Spiritual Leadership
• Motivate students to accept God’s gift of salvation, and be a Christian witness and role model to them in order to help them grow in their faith.
• Have a conviction that God has led him or her to Christian school ministry.
• Reflect the purpose of the school, which is to develop students who desire to love God and others, and are academically prepared for God’s unique plan for their lives.
Academic Leadership
• Have a thorough knowledge and understanding of the Christian philosophy that will help in providing leadership and guidance in the school’s development of and commitment to a Christian worldview
• Eagerly adopt and integrate Teaching for Transformation pedagogies in the classroom.
• Teach classes as assigned following the prescribed scope and sequence as scheduled by the administration.
Ensure the classroom reflects a professional and Christian environment.
Additional Duties or Responsibilities:
• Recognize the need for good public relations. Represent the school in a favorable and professional manner to the school’s constituency and the general public.
• Support the broader program of the school by attending extracurricular activities when possible.
• Involve parents in prayer and volunteerism as appropriate.
• Maintain a clean, attractive, and well-ordered classroom.
• Participate in the end-of-year school closing process, such as the inventorying of textbooks, furniture, and equipment.
• Perform any other duties that may be assigned by the administration.
