Employment

Director of Development and Fundraising

Giddens School is looking for a Director of Development and Fundraising to begin July 1. The Director of Development and Fundraising has overall responsibility for the day-to-day planning, coordination and management of all aspects of fundraising, marketing and community outreach for Giddens School.

Necessary qualifications include:

• A minimum of 3-5 years of fundraising, marketing, and communications experience
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewardship of major, annual, capital, endowment, and planned gift prospects and donors
• Skilled at communicating the vision and accomplishments of the school to a wide range of internal and external constituencies
• Bachelor's Degree required
• Independent School experience preferred

Please send a cover letter and resume to chaven@giddensschool.org. No phone calls, please.
 

Substitute Teachers

Substitute teaching is a great way to learn about Giddens School while providing important relief to classroom and extended day teachers. Please submit a resume and letter of interest to Assistant Head of School Alison Bower.

Support Staff

If you are interested in joining the Giddens School support staff for our Extended Day Program, please email your resume to our Extended Day Director Christa Kriesel-Roth.

Why Work at Giddens School?

Giddens School is dedicated to the ideal that true academic excellence is enriched by an understanding of equity, justice, and social responsibility; and is necessarily coupled with a strong, aligned academic curriculum. We teach children to see issues from multiple perspectives.  Our educational philosophy is founded on anti-bias principles and constructivist curriculum.  Students at Giddens learn to interact empathically with other children, to think critically about bias, and to challenge bias when they encounter it, both personally and institutionally.

Giddens is the most ethnically, economically and socially diverse independent school in the Northwest. Between 30% and 40% of our families receive tuition assistance.  Unlike most independent schools, families represent all points of the economic spectrum, including the middle.  With more than forty percent children of color, our 3- through 11-year-olds learn about diversity in a truly diverse community, rather than through the intellectual abstraction of multicultural curriculum.

Academic excellence at Giddens is broadly defined.  Critical thinking is its cornerstone, and our children love learning and self-expression without the confines of arbitrary rote instruction or narrow curricular conformity.

Teachers at Giddens practice their craft with the autonomy necessary to bring their individual gifts and interests to the classroom, and with the collegial and professional understanding that aligned curriculum and a common language among teachers benefits all students.

The Giddens community includes families who support the social and academic goals of the school.  Working together with teachers and staff, Giddens families create a community that is dedicated to academic excellence, social justice, and the unique treasure of an enriched childhood.