Lower School Dean of Students Job Tallahassee Florida USA,Education / Teaching

Position: Lower School Dean of Students for the 2026 – 2027 School Year
Location: Tallahassee

Lower School Dean of Students for the 2026 – 2027 School Year

The Lower School Dean of Students is tasked with fostering the culture and discipline of Geneva’s lower school (K4 - 6th grades) and with oversight of school functions and aftercare personnel. The Lower School Dean of Students is an exempt position and must be in full compliance with the school’s official mission, vision, and values, as stated below:

Mission: The Geneva School seeks to provide students in grades K4–12 an extraordinary education, by means of an integrated curriculum, pedagogy and culture, both distinctly classical and distinctively Christian, that pursues goodness, truth, and beauty in all spheres of life, while viewing these spheres as elements of a divinely ordered whole.
Vision: The Geneva School seeks to become an educational institution of scholastic and cultural gravitas, of extraordinary and exemplary virtuous scholars, a formidable force in the expansion and enrichment of Christ’s kingdom, in the life both of the individual and of the world.
Values: The Geneva School seeks to instill in the educational community it cultivates an enduring love of learning, a commitment to serve others, and a dedication to the pursuit of religious truth, moral goodness, and aesthetic beauty, forged from historical models of orthodox Christianity.

To both the external and internal constituencies of The Geneva School, the Lower School Dean of Students champions that we inspire students to love beauty, think deeply, and pursue Christ’s calling. To the internal constituency of the school, the Lower School Dean of Student’s leadership is exerted because students need an education that orders their loves and renews their minds in preparation for service in the kingdom of God.

He/she is charged with cultivating an educational community of faith and learning within the Christian, liberal arts tradition whose community of learners studies, re‑imagines, and teaches within the Christian, liberal arts tradition.

Essential Duties

In order to succeed in this endeavor, the strategic anchors that form the responsibilities of the Dean of Students and which serve as the basis for the annual evaluation lie in the following functional categories.

Ⅰ. Geneva re‑imagines and embodies the richest practices of Christian, liberal arts culture, curricula, and pedagogy. In culture formation, the Lower Student Dean of Students shall:

Serve as chief administrator of student activities and affairs
Create both a sense of what a “virtuous scholar” is and an environment conducive toward its living out. The Dean of Students will seek to:

Mentor specific students and, working with the other administrative staff, offer one‑on‑one time throughout the year, during and after school, with the rest of the student body.

Work to raise the cultural expectations of our students, in order that they might pursue the triadic virtues of the good, true, and beautiful. Illustrative examples of this include dress code, language, personal habits, heart desires, and relational charity.

Know that The Geneva School is neither the church nor the parent (God’s two ordained institutions of direct authority over children), but that the school is charged with aiding both the family and the church in the faith formation of children. The Lower School Dean of Students will, with the Headmaster and Directors of the Lower School, design and implement the chapel and discipleship programs for the school.

The Lower School Dean of Students will work with the Directors of the Lower School to ensure that the curriculum includes a biblical world‑and‑life‑view that is thoroughly and consistently integrated into the classroom experiences.

Oversee the Ambassador program which focuses on cultivating servant leadership within our 6th grade students and work to expand the program into other grade levels.

Organize and oversee the Knighting program in 4th grade which provides faculty mentors as well as upper school mentors to our 4th graders.

Create and oversee a program encouraging and emphasizing intellectual virtues that allows students to be recognized for displaying these virtues.

Attend various extra‑curricular…


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