Career Opportunities

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• Faculty, Administrative Faculty and Staff Positions

  
  Thank you for your interest in applying to Woodberry Forest School. Please click on the following link for all available openings at this time. 
  
  Woodberry Jobs Board

• Learn More About Faculty Careers at Woodberry

  What makes teaching and living at Woodberry Forest School special? Three things: Our people, our culture, and our place. Our student body is all-boarding, and more than 90 percent of faculty live on campus, creating an intimate, tight-knit community. We’re an all-boys school, focused on developing young men who are lifelong learners with a strong moral character. One of the boarding school’s defining characteristics is a nearly 120-year-old honor system that is entirely student run. 

   

  Our campus is set on 1,200 acres in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This is a place where we can focus on teaching and learning without distractions. Students, faculty, and faculty families take full advantage of our safe and beautiful campus, enjoying hiking and biking trails in the woods or the natural beauty of the Rapidan River, which borders our land. 

   

  Our culture is based on moral integrity, intellectual thoroughness, a reverence for things sacred, and good sportsmanship. We seek faculty who are passionate about and trained in their discipline — but who are equally committed to working with boys on stage, on the athletic fields, and on dorm. Living and learning at Woodberry doesn’t just take place inside our classrooms. 
  
  View the faculty guidebook

   

  Biography/contact info

  Matthew C. Boesen is Woodberry’s dean of faculty. Dr. Boesen, who holds the Camp Family Chair, came to Woodberry in 2001 and became dean of faculty in 2015. He designed and currently teaches Woodberry’s third-form history course, Stories and Histories.
  
  Dr. Boesen earned an AB from Yale University and an MA and PhD from the University of Virginia. In 2006 the John Marshall Foundation honored his work with its teaching award, presented annually to one Virginia high school teacher to recognize excellence in teaching the Constitution. He lives in the Class of 2007 Faculty North Duplex with his wife, Christal, Woodberry's psychologist. The Boesens have two children.
  
  E-mail: matt.boesen@woodberry.org

  Phone: 540-672-6021

   

  Byron C. Hulsey became the school’s ninth headmaster in 2014. He graduated from Woodberry in 1986 and was senior prefect. He was a Jefferson Scholar at the University of Virginia and studied history. He taught for two years at Bryanston School, a boarding school in Blandford, England, before returning to his native Texas to earn MA and PhD degrees from the University of Texas at Austin as a Patterson-Banister Fellow in American History. Byron served on the Woodberry faculty from 1998 to 2000 as assistant director of college counseling and in the history department. He was assistant headmaster at Norfolk Academy and was head of school at Randolph School in Huntsville, Alabama for eight years before coming to Woodberry. 

• Kenan-Lewis Fellowship Program

  The Kenan-Lewis Fellowship Program at Woodberry Forest School gives recent college graduates a two-year appointment to the school’s faculty. Established by the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust in honor of alumni Frank Hawkins Kenan ’31 and Lawrence Lewis, Jr. ’37, the program provides a guided, hands-on teaching and coaching apprenticeship designed to create a solid foundation in the profession. As the two years unfold, fellows gain independence, and by the end, they are qualified to seek full-time positions at top independent schools and will have attained a masters degree in education from the Curry School at the University of Virginia. 
  
  Fellows are assigned to an academic department, where they work with experienced mentors, observe master teachers, and learn to design lessons and teach classes. Outside the classroom, they serve as assistant coaches in one of our extra-curricular programs such as athletics or the arts, where again they work with mentors to gain practical experience, from running practices and teaching skills to coaching a game or directing a scene. 
  
  Living on campus — supervising dormitories and extra-curricular activities — they experience fully the work of the school and the life of the community, and they learn the art of guiding students in daily life and building substantial relationships. 
  
  Each fellowship carries a salary that is 75 percent of a first-year teacher's salary, with the other 25 percent devoted to fully funding a master's degree at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education. Fellows also receive housing, meals in the school dining room, retirement benefits and health care benefits.
  
  We accept applications from college seniors and very recent graduates for the upcoming academic year until January 15.
  
  Candidates chosen to interview will be notified by February 15. Applicants should submit the following: (1) a cover letter; (2) a résumé indicating previous education, employment, athletic and extracurricular experience, and special interests and skills; (3) their college transcript; and (4) two letters of recommendation.
  
  If you have filed an application with one of the major faculty placement agencies, such as Carney Sandoe & Associates, Southern Teachers Agency, or Educator's Ally, the only submission required is a letter of application and an email to Matt Boesen to ensure your information on file has been downloaded from the agency for consideration. 
  
  To discuss this opportunity further please contact, Matt Boesen, director of the Kenan-Lewis Fellowship Program. 
  
  Phone: 540-672-6021 
  Email: kenan_lewis@woodberry.org 
  
  Please submit all application matierials to kenan_lewis@woodberry.org