# STEM DEPARTMENT CHAIR (MATHEMATICS & SCIENCES) at Davischicago > Onsite · United States · Unspecified · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Adavischicago%3A7fed8022-8bcb-4a6a-a0fd-48c8b604a4d4 (read 2026-11-12). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [Davischicago](https://alderhq.app/companies/davischicago) - Location text: Chicago - Where it can be done from (inferred): Onsite · United States (evidence: "Location: Chicago") - Posted: 2026-08-06 (98 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-04 · last verified: 2026-11-08 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/davischicago/7fed8022-8bcb-4a6a-a0fd-48c8b604a4d4 ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: not posted - Market band for similar posted roles (Chicago, n 781): p25 $63k, median $93k, p75 $140k ## Description (the employer's text) Full-Time Founding Leadership Position · Reports to the Principal · Master’s degree required in Education, Educational Leadership, Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; doctorate preferred · Illinois Professional Educator License in high school math and science preferred and National Board Certification a major plus · 3+ years of successful secondary (grades 6–12) teaching experience required; high school (grades 9–12) teaching experience highly preferred · Some form of leadership experience is required; Department, administration, or instructional leadership preferred · College-preparatory, independent, Jewish day or faith-based school experience is a plus · Being Jewish is not a requirement for this role · Fewer years but exceptional craft? We hire for mastery, not seat time. Are you an accomplished educator and academic leader passionate about teaching and learning in STEM? Do you want the opportunity to shape and lead a world-class STEM program that prepares students for college, leadership, innovation, and impact? Are you passionate about cultivating intellectual curiosity, academic excellence, problem-solving, research, and innovation in the lives of young people? If so, Davis School Chicago wants to hear from you. ### The Dream Team Davis School Chicago is a proudly Jewish, college-preparatory high school opening in fall 2027 in downtown Chicago, in a state-of-the-art building at the heart of a great city for learning. Every adult at Davis Chicago is an educator and a culture-builder. We hold two expectations at the same time: deep human warmth and uncompromising intellectual excellence. High health and high results, never one at the cost of the other. This is a summary of the characteristics that describe our dream team. Please read the full Profile of the Ideal Davis Chicago Educator and more information about our opportunities before you apply. ### To thrive here you are Warm and intellectually formidable. Genuinely kind and seriously bright. We hire for intellectual horsepower; only sharp minds grow students to their full potential. You bring the room to life. Passion people feel, loud or quiet, with the range to teach, support, and lead. A builder who owns it. Startup grit, a real growth mindset, open about mistakes, gives the gift of feedback, and the drive to create what doesn’t exist yet. Teach how to think, not what to think. Rigor, evidence, and a love of hard questions, including the controversial ones. Students reach their own conclusions. Rooted in tradition, built for what’s next. Ancient wisdom and modern tools, AI included, aimed at today's problems. Unapologetically Jewish. Israel has a right to exist; that is not up for debate. Everything else is fair game, including spirited debate about Israel’s actions. You’re excited to help build a proudly Jewish, pro-Israel school. ### What Davis Chicago Needs Davis Chicago is hiring a rigorous, inventive STEM Chair to build our mathematics, science, and engineering program from its first course map, and to teach in it every day. As a founding leader, the Chair is a member of the team opening a school from scratch. Therefore, the person needs to be a builder-leader: someone who can take a bold founding vision and turn it into a living school, then run a department in that school at a level of excellence every student, parent, and teacher can feel. Davis School Chicago has also posted part-time Mathematics, Biology, and Chemistry Teacher roles. If you want to teach your subject without leading the department, apply for the part-time role that fits; if you are open to either, apply to both. ### Who Thrives in This Role Warm, Relational, and High-Performing – Kind, emotionally intelligent, intellectually rigorous, and committed to excellence. A Teacher First – Leads from the classroom and teaches every day. A Rigorous Problem-Solver – Models mathematical and scientific thinking students can feel. An Entrepreneurial Builder – Thrives in ambiguity, solves problems, and creates programs, systems, and traditions from the ground up. --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Adavischicago%3A7fed8022-8bcb-4a6a-a0fd-48c8b604a4d4 and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.