Educational Technologist

Start Date: August 27, 2019
Salary: Commensurate with experience

About our school:
Bay Ridge Prep, a NYSAIS-accredited, independent, college preparatory school, is dedicated to  enriching the intellectual curiosity, creativity, and emotional intelligence of each person.

About the position:
The Educational Technologist is responsible for collaborating with faculty and administrators to create and implement dynamic learning environments for students, institute best practices for technology use and maintenance, seek and develop technology-related professional development programming for faculty, and assist in managing the school’s technology and software. The ideal candidate also has experience working directly with students and can easily adapt instruction to meet the needs of advanced high school students as well as those students with learning differences.

Duties Include:

• Provide direct guidance and support in the use of technology for teaching faculty

• Provide training and professional development for faculty

• Partner with administration and faculty in the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of technology in curricula, course materials and methods of instruction across disciplines

• Provide administrative and technical support for instructional technology

• Provide administrative setup, ongoing support, and faculty training for the school’s Learning Management Systems and related databases

• Maintain records of progress with classroom technology efforts by departments and individual faculty

• Supervise student spaces as assigned, instruct students individually and in group settings (to include teaching a minimum of one course per term and leading tech-related student clubs

• Guest-teach and co-teach across disciplines

• Assist individual faculty to establish clear learning objectives for lessons, units, and projects utilizing appropriate technology

• Maintain contact with students and parents via effective and regular communication

• Provide a variety of resources for students to explore, manipulate and use technology in classroom and other school environments

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or post-graduate work in educational technology

• 2-3 years experience working in an independent school environment preferred

• Experience in a one-to-one environment using cloud-based, office-suite software

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills

• Demonstrated understanding of technology in curriculum design

• Demonstrated ability to communicate with diverse faculty and student populations

• Experience in curricular design, inquiry-based learning, and classroom teaching

• Demonstrated experience teaching computer science, robotics and/or engineering

• Ability to relate and interact with students of various ages and faculty

• Empathy for supporting diverse levels of technical ability and skill set

• Energetic and eager to engage actively with students, faculty and parent community

How to apply:

Qualified applicants should e-mail their résumé to jobs@bayridgeprep.org with the subject line “Educational Technologist”. No phone calls or faxes, please.

Due to the high number of résumés received for each job posting, we are unable to respond to each inquiry. The school administration will determine which candidates have a strong potential to join our staff and will make direct contact with those candidates.

We appreciate your interest in Bay Ridge Preparatory School, an equal opportunity and inclusive employer that does not discriminate on any basis protected by federal, state or local laws.