Career Opportunities & Job Openings

Welcome! We invite you to learn about our community and our current job opportunities. Whether you're considering joining our team or already a valued member, we hope you will find these resources helpful. Together, let's educate students to live lives that make a difference.

Current Job Openings

Employee Benefits

William Penn Charter School offers a robust benefits package that affirms the school’s commitment to supporting our employees. We seek people who share our commitment to equity, diversity, empathy, and the development of socially conscious individuals prepared and determined to make a difference in the lives of others.

We believe in investing in our employees' growth and provide them with competitive compensation, diverse professional development opportunities, and health and wellness benefits, including medical, family leave, retirement and tuition remission.

Medical Plans

Penn Charter is a PAISBOA (Philadelphia Area Independent School Business Officers Association) Health Benefit Trust member. Our employees have access to a collection of comprehensive health care benefits designed to keep you and your enrolled family members healthy. Independence Blue Cross is our partner for medical benefits, prescription drug coverage and innovative wellness offerings, including a new program to provide expanded family-forming benefits. This program supports our inclusive and diverse employee population through fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits.

Dental Plans

Penn Charter employees have access to any dentist of their choice through our dental PPO plan offered through Delta Dental. The basic plan provides 100% coverage for diagnostic, preventive and endodontic benefits. The enhanced plan offers 100% coverage for diagnostic and preventive, basic, endodontic benefits and oral surgery. Periodontics, crowns, onlays, prosthodontic and orthodontic benefits are covered at 50%.

Life Insurance

Penn Charter offers two plans: one group term life for which the school pays 100% of the cost and the benefit is 1x annual salary to a maximum benefit of $112,000 to your beneficiary. A voluntary life insurance benefit is also available, in which employees buy additional insurance for themselves, their spouses and their children. UNUM is our carrier for life insurance.

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Short- and Long-Term Disability

The school pays employees 100% pay during the short-term disability period, which is 30, 60 or 90 days, depending on the length of service. The school also pays 100% of the long-term disability premium, which begins on day 91. On day 91, the salary goes down to 60%. On day 91, if the employee is still out, they will be paid 60% of their salary by the long-term disability insurance carrier.

Retirement Plans

The school offers a retirement plan whereby eligible employees receive an 8% contribution to their retirement plan and a 2% flexible, benefit which can be applied towards retirement, medical premiums or compensation. This is a contribution, not a match, which means it is made regardless of whether the employee contributes. Employees also have access to a voluntary supplemental 403(b) and a ROTH 403(b) plan. All contributions are 100% vested from day one. TIAA-CREF is our vendor for retirement programs.

Our Campus

Penn Charter rests on a sprawling, green 47-acre campus in the East Falls section of Philadelphia.

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About Penn Charter

William Penn Charter School was established in 1689 by William Penn and members of the Religious Society of Friends and is guided by five core Quaker values—simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, stewardship—and a commitment to excellence in academics, arts and athletics. These tenets are taught, modeled and lived by our community, a place that celebrates diversity, promotes social justice and fosters respect for all individuals.

At the heart of our pre-K through 12 coeducational independent school, our commitment to fostering an inclusive, nurturing and empowering environment begins with our dedicated faculty and staff.As you explore this virtual space, you'll discover more than just a workplace—you'll find a school community that is united by shared values and where every individual is respected, valued and encouraged to grow both personally and professionally.

Fast Facts

86%

Faculty holds advanced degrees

40

Days of paid parental leave for full-time employees

90 $6,000

Meet Our Community

Emma Cohen-Westbrooke, Chair of Health, Wellness and Sexuality Department

Phil Telan, Procurement Manager

Susan Spencer, Administrative Assistant - Development

Non-Discrimination, Anti-Harassment, Non-Retaliation

William Penn Charter is an Equal Opportunity Employer and an Equal Opportunity Care Provider.

Penn Charter acknowledges its obligations to prohibit discrimination, harassment, or retaliation on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex, disability/handicap, or religion in admission to its educational programs, activities, and services, and in employment opportunities. Retaliation against an individual for filing a complaint under this policy or participating in the informal or formal resolution is prohibited.

MISSION

Quaker principles and practice continue to guide William Penn Charter School, a Friends school founded in 1689. Within a school community that honors difference, we seek that of God in each person. We value scholarship and inquiry. With excellence as our standard, we challenge students in a vigorous program of academics, arts and athletics. Through global connections, civic engagement and a focus on environmental sustainability, we inspire students to be thinkers, collaborators, innovators and leaders. We educate students to live lives that make a difference.

Career Opportunities & Job Openings

Career Opportunities & Job Openings