Manara School’s Mission
Manara School provides exceptional students with a world-class education based on ethics, academics, and diversity. We expect our students to become the passionate leaders required to shape a more prosperous and equitable world.
About Manara School
Manara School started its first year of operation in the Fall of 2023, with its inaugural class of 2028. The school is expected to grow to 500 students. As a co-educational residential school, with a mission to provide exceptional students with a world-class education based on ethics, academics, and diversity, Manara continues to build its organizational systems and infrastructure.
Manara School seeks a faculty member in Computer Science beginning in the 2027–28 academic year.
The faculty member will teach computer science courses at different levels, potentially including AP Computer Science Principles and AP Computer Science A, and will have the opportunity to develop and teach more specialized courses such as advanced programming and algorithms, AI and machine learning, cybersecurity, and/or robotics and physical computing.
Manara School is a residential school, so all faculty contribute to the evening and weekend residential program as well as to the academic program, and most live on campus.
The successful candidate will report to the Dean of Academics and will also work in close collaboration with the Dean of Students with regard to their residential duties.
Responsibilities
- Teach four course sections with responsibility for around 60 students (depending on the department and nature of the courses)
- Perform a combination of these co-curricular and residential duties as assigned:
- Coach or support student sports and/or clubs
- Advise a group of approximately 5-7 students
- Serve as a dorm parent for approximately 9-13 students
- Supervise study halls
- Supervise evenings and weekends on a rotational basis as part of a duty team
- Contribute to special activities such as community service events, school trips, and outdoor excursions
- Serve on assigned committees (such as discipline, accreditation, curriculum, etc.)
- Attend and contribute to all school-wide events (such as school meetings and assemblies, admissions events, faculty and student orientation, parent weekends and meetings, and staff meetings)
- Any academic, supervisory, educational or other activities that are typical for boarding school teachers, and work as assigned by direct supervisor or the Head of School
Qualifications and Requirements
Fundamentally, Manara’s teachers are knowledgeable, joyful, and caring mentors, both in and out of the classroom. To help Manara students develop as leaders, faculty empower and guide them towards exercising curiosity, problem-solving, perseverance, resilience, and responsible decision-making. As faculty members with the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help build a new, world-class residential school program, our teachers will manifest flexibility, teamwork, and an entrepreneurial spirit, and will celebrate the school’s Egyptian identity within a diverse global context.
Qualified candidates will demonstrate
- Educational qualifications (at minimum, a Bachelor’s degree), or other evidence of deep knowledge in their subject area
- Passion for their subject area and a demonstrable love of learning
- Joy in spending time with teenagers and helping them find their way through adolescence and young adulthood
- Mastery of engaging and age-appropriate pedagogical strategies, including differentiation, student-directed inquiry, and experiential learning
- Demonstrated success in a boarding environment or similar setting where they have provided care and mentorship for students outside the classroom
- Experience teaching students who are multilingual learners, or an eagerness to develop this skill set
- Patience, kindness, and a collaborative work style
- Interest in our Egyptian culture and the motivation to embrace it
