Job description

Assistant Teacher (Early Childhood)
Central Synagogue’s Vision:
Central Synagogue is one of the leading and largest Reform congregaons in the country. Located in
Midtown Manhatan, Central’s reach includes more than 2,800 member families, a livestream community numbering in the hundreds of thousands, and more than 800 students, from birth to twelh grade, in the Nursery and Religious schools. It has long played a significant role in the naonal Reform movement and is known for its innovaon and leadership in worship, leading to a greatly expanded audience over the last two decades.

Central Synagogue works toward a world in which Judaism is core to the lives of Central members and
Jews everywhere and is a profound and posive force for humanity. Central connually redefines what it means to be Jewish today, both within the Synagogue community and far beyond the Synagogue’s walls.
The diverse clergy and professional team work hard, in collaboraon with lay leadership, to build deep and enduring relaonships among Central members, creang a caring, dynamic, and joyful community. 

Central Synagogue is an inclusive and welcoming community. The Synagogue encourages parcipaon from all who seek a connecon to Jewish life and want to be part of its sacred community regardless of religious background, race, ethnicity, gender, ability, socioeconomic status, polical affiliaon, age, sexual orientaon, or gender identy. Central is commited to being an open tent, a place that welcomes all people, including those who have been historically and instuonally marginalized or excluded from the
Jewish community.  

The Synagogue is well resourced, has over 100 staff, and is governed by a 29-member Board of
Trustees.  To learn more, please visit: htps://www.centralsynagogue.org/.

Our Vision at the May Family Nursery School:
Early childhood is a magical time of discovery for children and their parents. At Central Synagogue, we provide children with rich learning and growth experiences that establish them as lifelong learners and celebratory experiences that connect them to the joys of Judaism through an exploration of values, traditions, and rituals. Inspired by emergent curriculum and the Reggio Emilia philosophy of early childhood education and grounded by developmental milestones for each child, we help children achieve learning goals through a constructivist approach.

Job Summary/Objecve:
The Assistant Teacher is a member of the Central Synagogue May Family Nursery School teaching team who shares in the educaon, care, and well-being of his or her assigned group of students. Under the guidance of the Nursery School administraon, the Assistant Teacher is required to implement planned curriculum, parcipate in team meengs and to uphold the objecves and overall philosophy of the

Central Synagogue May Family Nursery School. The Assistant Teacher works closely with the head teacher/s and reports to the Early Childhood Director.

We are looking for a teacher who is creave, flexible, has a growth mindset and is eager to learn and contribute as a willing team player to establishing a warm and dynamic classroom environment.

Reports To Early Childhood Director

Department Hours

Full-me, 10-month posion, Exempt and not eligible for OT

Your hours of employment will be as follows: Monday through

Thursday 8:15 am – 3:30 pm and unl 2:30 pm on Friday

Essenal Dues/Key Responsibilies:

• Manage, with your teaching team, all aspects of daily classroom life, including health and safety of all students, establishment of comfortable classroom rounes and transions, and implementaon of child-centered, developmentally appropriate, emergent curriculum that excites children about learning and prepares them for the next step in their educaon.
• Plan and implement acvies to support and foster posive self-esteem, social skills, developmental growth, and independence for all students.
• Observe and record children’s progress, behavior, growth, and development on a regular and ongoing basis.
• Work collaboravely with teaching team, administrators, specialists, and consultants.
• Incorporate Shabbat, Jewish holiday celebraons, and Jewish values, customs, tradions, and rituals into the classroom.
• Acvely parcipate in all team meengs, staff meengs, professional development days, teacher trainings, and workshops.

Parcipate in teaching aer school and other classes for the Nursery School and CentralSynagogue and Central Synagogue’s family engagement programming for families with young children.Qualificaons:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Teaching experience in early childhood classrooms or other sengs with young children desired
• Meet standards for licensing requirements (finger prinng, child abuse and other relevant training, etc.)

Other Duties:
Please note that the above is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this job. It should not be construed as an exhausve statement of dues, responsibilies, or requirements. Nothing in this job descripon restricts management’s rights to assign or reassign dues and responsibilies to this job at any me.

The expected salary range for this posion is $40,000 to $46,000. Central Synagogue offers an extensive benefits package designed to meet the needs of our dedicated and diverse community. The salary is

commensurate with experience based on several factors, including, but not limited to, skills, knowledge, training, educaon, areas of specializaon, and depth and scope of experience. The above salary range represents the Synagogue’s good faith and reasonable esmate of the possible compensaon range at the me of posng.

Addional Informaon:
Central Synagogue requires all staff members (full-me AND part-me) to (a) provide proof of vaccinaon and booster against COVID-19 or (b) obtain an approved exempon as an accommodaon. If you are offered employment this requirement must be met by your hire date unless a reasonable accommodaon for exempon is received and approved.

Applicaon Process:

• To apply, please submit a resume, cover leter, wring sample, New York State Teacher cerficaon documentaon, and three references addressed to Cindy Grebow, Early Childhood

Director, at educaonjobs@censyn.org.

• Please reference the job tle, Assistant Teacher, in the subject line of your email. Incomplete applicaons will not be reviewed.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $40,000.00 - $46,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Grade levels:

• Pre-Kindergarten

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

School type:

• Private school

Work Location: In person

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