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Position Type:
Library/Library Faculty Assistant

Date Posted:
3/20/2025

Location:
Pembroke Hill School

Date Available:
August 2025

Library Faculty Assistant
Begins August 2025

Job Summary: The Library Assistant provides library and reference support to students and the Head Librarians on the Wornall and Ward Parkway campuses. The Library Faculty Assistant contributes significantly to the library's educational program by teaching and providing support to students through whole group and half group instruction in the library. They work under the supervision of the campus Librarians.

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree required; education related major or equivalent experience in education.
• Experience working with children, minimum of two years strongly preferred.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to create and maintain positive relationships with children, families, and colleagues.
• Previous library or reading education experience, a plus

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage children in learning, support problem solving, and supervise children throughout the day.
• Support, and at times lead, whole group instruction.
• Assist the lead librarians in planning and implementing the curriculum and classroom routines.
• Collaborate with the lead teacher in planning daily activities, gathering materials, and setting up experiences.
• Provide technology and administrative support
• Perform duties of librarian when absent or in meetings outside the classroom.

Schedule: This is a school year (August through May) position. During the school year, there are three school vacations - one week at Thanksgiving, two weeks in December, and two weeks in March - plus holidays, personal and sick days.

Compensation: The annual base salary for the school year ranges from $32,500-35,500 based on previous experience, and there are ways to earn additional compensation through the extended day program, coaching, and/or summer camp.
Benefits include health, dental, retirement match (up to 8%), professional development opportunities, PHS tuition remission, free lunch, and more!

About Pembroke Hill School:
Pembroke Hill School is an independent school in Kansas City, Missouri. Pembroke Hill seeks to fulfill our mission by recognizing that diversity, belonging, equity, and inclusion are integral elements of school and community life. Our mission-inspired goal is together, cultivating the best in each, for the benefit of all. Cultivating each to be a global thinker and valuable member of the PHS community poised to acquire the academic and life skills that make a significant difference for all.

We have newer and updated facilities, excellent classroom resources, small class sizes, and a competitive and comprehensive compensation and benefits package. If you would like to join a highly qualified team who enjoys teaching talented and dedicated students please complete the online application to be considered.

Physical Demands for Staff positions:
The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Ability to sit for extended periods.
• Ability to enter data into a computer, to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids
• Ability to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors, and on the telephone
• Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone
• Physical ability to lift, carry and/or hold up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and 50 pounds to waist height
• Ability to occasionally balance, reach, bend, squat, stoop, or kneel
• Ability to climb stairs, walk, and occasionally run, if required