Job Openings
Early Childhood Director 2025-26
Position Description
Cedarwood Waldorf School in beautiful Portland, OR, host of the 2025 Pacific Northwest Regional WECAN Conference, is searching for an experienced Waldorf early childhood educator and school leader to join our dedicated, talented faculty as our inaugural Early Childhood Director. If you are looking to serve Waldorf education with colleagues who are passionate about their work in early childhood education, Cedarwood is the place for you! We offer a full benefits package, regular professional development opportunities and educational leadership mentoring in a supportive, vibrant school community.
Cedarwood's Early Childhood Director oversees the operations, educational programming and administrative functioning for our early childhood classes and ensures regulatory compliance with Oregon Early Learning Division Licensed Program requirements. The Early Childhood Director ensures high quality, mission aligned early childhood teaching and learning, fosters a positive, inclusive school culture, and supports faculty, students, staff and families in close collaboration with the Head of School and Grades Director to deliver the mission and strategic goals of Cedarwood Waldorf School. A complete job description will be available during the hiring process. Start date: July 1, 2025.
To apply for this professional growth opportunity, please submit a letter of interest and resume to Dr. Joseph Doucette, Head of School at jdoucette@cedarwoodschool.org.
Early Childhood On Call Substitute Teacher
Position Description
We have a robust, resourceful, and inspiring early childhood program offering parent child classes, two pre-kindergarten classes, and three kindergarten classes. Cedarwood is licensed through the State of Oregon as a Childcare Center and must meet licensing requirements for substitutes.
We are always looking for early childhood substitute teachers. This position is an on-call position and would have a four-hour minimum. School hours are from 8:15am to 3:00pm; before care begins at 7:30am and extended day goes until 5:30pm. There are occasional substitute needs on evenings and weekends. Applicants must be listed in Oregon Central Background Registry and have first aid/CPR certification.
A complete job description will be available during the hiring process.
Please send your resume, letter of interest and three references that we can contact to: mhansen@cedarwoodschool.org
Grades On Call Substitute Teacher
Position Description
Cedarwood is a comprehensive and creative Waldorf elementary through middle school program that introduces academics in a developmentally thoughtful way. Each student’s imagination is continually nurtured as they develop the capacity to meet the challenges of learning math, language arts, history, geography, science, music, eurythmy, handwork, movement, and two foreign languages, Spanish and Japanese.
We are always looking for an on-call substitute teachers for grades one through eight, including subject classes. This position is an on-call position and would have a four hour minimum. School hours are from 8:15am to 3:00pm; before care begins at 7:30am and extended day goes until 5:30pm. There are occasional substitute needs on evenings and weekends.
A complete job description will be available during the hiring process.
All candidates must have an interest in working collaboratively, intuitively and joyfully on behalf of the child.
Please send your resume, letter of interest and three references that we can contact to: mhansen@cedarwoodschool.org
Cedarwood Waldorf School is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions, including the recruiting, hiring, placement, training availability, promotion, compensation, evaluation, disciplinary actions, and termination of employment (if necessary) are made without regard to the employee’s race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy or childbirth, personal appearance, family responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, political affiliation, source of income, place of residence, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military veteran status, unfavorable discharge from military service, physical or mental disability, or on any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
