Director of Communications

McLean School’s mission is to make education accessible, stimulating, and meaningful to a broad range of bright K-12 learners. McLean understands each student’s unique strengths and challenges, and supports both in a way that fosters intellectual growth as well as confidence, self-advocacy, empathy, and connection. At McLean, students succeed because they learn how to learn in an inclusive, conscientious community of caring teachers and peers.

Transforming the lives of students and families, McLean School is Washington, DC’s premier independent school preparing bright students in grades Kindergarten through 12, including those with dyslexia, ADHD, and executive functioning challenges, for college success. For more than 70 years, the school has helped students realize their full potential with a comprehensive and academically rigorous full-scope educational program and curriculum that is traditional without being rigid, challenging without being intimidating, and designed with the real world in mind.

Many schools talk about the warmth of their community, the collegiality, and the deep sense of caring and trust among and between students, faculty, staff, administrators, and parents. At McLean, born from the mission of serving learners that span the range of racial, socio-economic, cultural, and learning strengths and challenges, that deep sense of caring for one another provides a bedrock foundation.

Reaching all corners of the McLean experience, the school’s commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging is an extension of its mission to make education accessible, stimulating, and meaningful to a broad range of learners. McLean embraces diversity and values the integrity of all individuals. This recognition enriches the community and encourages students to be better leaders and more responsible citizens.

McLean has been built to celebrate and serve all students, recognizing that all children are natural learners, but that they learn in different ways. The school’s unique Abilities Model® provides a holistic way to understand and engage students, recognizing each child for their unique strengths, allowing them to excel, while also providing support in areas of need.

McLean School may look like a typical, maybe even traditional college‑prep school. But what happens within the walls of the school is anything but traditional. The school attracts deeply caring and trained educators whose passion is discovering and teaching to the unique abilities of each student.

With close to 500 students in grades K‑12 on two campuses just minutes apart, McLean School is delivering on the promise of giving students skills, confidence, tools, and knowledge to succeed in college and beyond. Many schools whose population includes traditional learners and those with dyslexia, ADHD, and executive functioning challenges talk about their aspiration for graduates to attend college. At McLean School, that is not only an aspiration but a reality for nearly 100% of graduates.

Following the retirement of a long‑serving and highly successful leader of the school’s marketing and communications team, McLean seeks a new Director of Communications, a reimagined and retitled role that leads the development and delivery of the school’s outreach to current and alum parents and students, strategically, creatively, and tactically, and collaborates widely with the leadership team, key offices, Parents’ Association, and other constituency groups.

Working hand‑in‑hand with the similarly retitled role of Director of Marketing, who is primarily responsible for outreach to prospective families, and supervising a Graphic Design and Social Media Manager, the Director of Communications sits on the school’s leadership team, reports to an Associate Head of School, and regularly collaborates with and supports the Head of School in service of the school’s mission, strategic direction, and culture.

In his second year as Head of School, Barry L. Davis is empowering a talented team of educators to create an environment where students can be transformed, and families can exhale in the knowledge that their child…