faculty hiring support

search partners

The Gowan Group will partner with your school to bring your faculty member search to a successful conclusion. As explained below, we offer two levels of support: Sourcing & Vetting, and Committee Facilitation

sourcing and vetting

For schools who have a good handle on the mechanics of conducting a search, The Gowan Group offers the Sourcing & Vetting package.

• Our consultant will provide broad exposure to your job description across multiple platforms. Gowan Group’s rich network and deep knowledge of digital hiring platforms ensures a rich candidate pool.

• As potential candidates respond, we will screen them and pass along the qualified candidates who seem to be a potential match for your school. This will save your committee a great deal of time and effort and allow them to focus exclusively on serious candidates.

committee facilitation

As the faculty labor market has shifted, so too must the mechanics of the search process. Schools must be conscious of their teacher value proposition, educate committee members on how to avoid bias, etc. For schools who would like more guidance throughout the search process The Gowan Group offers the Committee Facilitation package.

• This package includes the Sourcing & Vetting components but adds a great deal more value.

• A Gowan Group consultant will guide the search committee through the entire search process - from developing an effective position description that highlights the school's teacher value proposition, to providing anti-bias training to committee members, to developing interview questions, to scheduling the campus interviews.

onboarding and continued support

Gowan Group believes that an effective onboarding program is ley to the success of new hires. We will work with the school to suggest an onboarding program on campus - and we will work with all Gowan candidates to orient them to the profession and the high expectations that people will have for them. We will also conduct monthly check-ins with those Gowan candidates. There is no charge for this service.

hiring teachers early in their career

Many independent schools prefer to hire teachers with strong experience. Given the sharp decline in people choosing to go into education as a profession, this will become increasingly challenging. We anticipate seeing a steady rise in the number of early career teachers in every candidate pool.

To give schools more confidence to hire early career candidates, Gowan Group offers a 4-month (August - Dec) New Teacher program. This online bi-weekly class will cover all of the basics - with the specific nuances of independent schools serving as the context.

• An online class of no more than 20 new teachers will be led by a master teacher with decades of experience teaching in independent schools

• The class will meet for 45 minutes from 3:45 - 4:30 (we will accommodate different time zones) every other week from mid-August to early-December and deliver “just-in-time” content to the early career teachers in the class

• The instructor will hold weekly office hours - open to the teachers in the class and the senior administrators at those teachers’ schools.

If you would like to schedule conversation with one of our consultants to discuss Hiring Support for your school, please click on the button below; we will respond within 72 hours.