Approximately 300 people work at Riverdale, finding professional and personal fulfillment through working alongside creative and committed colleagues, pursuing opportunities for professional development, and enjoying benefits such as health/dental care, retirement plan, on-site daycare, and yoga.
Featured Jobs
Lower School Homebase Associate Teacher (2024-2025)
Riverdale Country School is seeking Homebase Associate Teachers for the 2024-2025 school year.
Associate Teachers at Riverdale are members of a three-year cohort program designed for individuals who are in the early stages of their careers as educators. Associate Teachers work alongside a Head Teacher to support a homebase class of students for the full year. Associate Teachers are predominantly involved in supporting students through small group or 1:1 instruction, though certainly have opportunities to lead full-group lessons. As full-time faculty members, Associate Teachers are also members of grade-level teams that engage in frequent collaboration related to planning, instruction, and assessment directly connected to student learning.
In addition to the intensive, hands-on, teaching experience, Associate Teachers also receive ongoing professional development. These opportunities are geared toward strengthening foundational teaching practices as well as supporting individuals in their pursuit of future career opportunities. Associate Teachers may remain at Riverdale a maximum of three years and are supported in their pursuit of other opportunities beyond their time at the school.
Middle and Upper School Math Teacher
Riverdale’s Mathematics Department seeks an enthusiastic and collegial educator to teach Middle and Upper School Math. We hope to find a candidate comfortable teaching a variety of math courses from our Mathematics 6 (sixth-grade) curriculum through our upper level courses in Calculus and Advanced Math.
Middle School Learning Specialist (2024-2025)
Riverdale seeks a middle school learning specialist. The position focuses on direct work with sixth-grade students in study skills. These are students with documented learning differences and needing additional academic support. An important part of the Learning Resource Team’s mission includes working with faculty on implementing best teaching practices and effective pedagogy. You will work with a team of other learning specialists, each specializing in a particular age group, so there is collaborative help in onboarding the candidate to daily tasks and expectations.
Junior Varsity Field Hockey – Head Coach
Rivedale Country School is a Junior Varsity Field Hockey Head Coach. Riverdale Athletics’ mission is to provide a meaningful athletic experience for each student-athlete, maximizing student participation, promoting sportsmanship, representing the school with integrity, and balancing the commitments of being a student-athlete. We aim to hire coaches who emulate the values of Riverdale Athletics and Riverdale Country School. Our dedicated coaches, viewed as teachers, represent the school in interscholastic activities and use effective teaching strategies, expert knowledge, and skills in planning, instruction, motivation, and discipline. Coaches must set high expectations while understanding the physical and emotional stress of competitive sports alongside academic commitments, maintaining safety standards and reporting unsafe environments. The fall season begins on August 17th and concludes by the end of October, with practices from 3:45-5:45 p.m. Monday to Friday and competitions after school during the week, with no Saturday commitments for junior varsity teams.
Responsibilities include: Plan and deliver daily practices that include sport-specific fundamental technique, strategies, rules, conditioning, and safety; Organize and supervise drills while executing and teaching sport specific techniques: Collaborate and assign tasks to assistant coach(es); Stay current with rule changes and trends in your sport; Seek professional development and collaboration with fellow coaches
Production Cook
Riverdale seeks a production cook. The cook is to assist in the preparation of meals in the kitchen under the guidance and direction of the Executive Sous Chef and the management team. The person will perform routine kitchen tasks such as setting up workstations and ingredients so that food can be prepared according to recipes. To be successful in this job, you will need thorough experience with hot and cold food preparation.
Varsity Water Polo Head Coach
The Riverdale Country School Athletics Department is looking to hire a qualified Varsity Water Polo Coach. The candidate must be a qualified teacher of water polo skills and strategies. The candidate must be comfortable with working with high school aged students, while being aware of the demands of a culture of high academic expectations. The salary is reflective of the expectations and demands of a varsity coaching position.
Candidates will only be considered if they identify relevant playing or coaching experience on their resume or cover letter.
This ten-week season begins with a two-week preseason that takes place daily from 8-11am, while eventually transitioning to 3:45-5:45pm daily practice regimen.
Professional
& Personal
Development
A generous professional-development budget provides for conferences, skills training, and onsite training in areas such as mindfulness, coaching, classroom technology, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Zagat Global Fellows program pays for faculty to make extended visits to schools overseas — teachers have gone to England, China, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Grants &
Stipends
All employees are eligible for Frankel Fellow grants, known as “passion grants,” which pay for enrichment activities. More than 120 grants have been made to faculty and staff since the program started in 2014. Stipends are available for coaching, advising clubs with significant out-of-school time, and chaperoning trips (including global trips!). After 10 years, faculty are eligible for a sabbatical. You can take a half-year sabbatical at full pay or a full-year sabbatical at half-pay. (Or, you can take a payout of a half-year’s salary while you continue working.)
Age Smart
Employer
In 2018, the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center presented us with an Age Smart Employer Award for offering programs to support workers of all ages. The Selection Committee took note of the grants established by the Frankel family that allow faculty and staff to explore personal passions during the summer recess.
Transportation
Faculty shuttles are offered from Manhattan and from the 242nd St/Broadway subway station, making stops near transit hubs including the MetroNorth – Harlem Station, subway lines – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, N, Q, R, A, B, C, and D, and the Henry Hudson Parkway at the 246th St bus stop, connecting to #7 and #10 bus and Express Buses from Manhattan.
Equal Opportunity
Statement
Riverdale Country School seeks diversity in its faculty, staff, and student body. In admission and employment policies and practices, in financial aid and loan programs, and in all its educational programs, Riverdale does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national and ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, and any other protected categories under applicable law.
It is the policy of Riverdale Country School to provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national and ethnic origin, citizenship, marital status, disability, military status, or any other basis protected by applicable law to all qualified employees and applicants for employment.