George school seeks candidates for a full-time woodworking teacher. The candidate should have previous teaching experience, an extensive portfolio, an MFA (or a reasonable facsimile), and be able to demonstrate the ability to run, maintain, and keep a classroom of 14 teenaged students moving forward in the common goal of designing and building original furniture.

The woodworking program at George School has been operating since 1893 when it was housed in a basement. In 1948 it was moved to the Hallowell Arts Center. Only 4 teachers have run the program since the school opened.

The woodworking program encompasses a 4000 sq ft shop and bench room. The machines in the shop include 2 sawstop table saws, 2 bandsaws, two joiners, 6 one-way lathes, 2 drill presses, 13 woodworking benches with Record 53E vices, and many other stationary tools too numerous to list. A large basement with wood storage and a finishing room rounds out the shop.

There are three outbuildings for additional wood storge, much of that material has been sawn from trees on campus. For the past 40 years this has been a local hardwood shop, meaning the shop uses only locally sourced walnut, cherry, ash, white and red oak, maple, poplar, and beech.

The role of the woodworking teacher would be to teach between 2 and 3 classes per term including the IB curriculum, maintain the shop and all the tools within, oversee student co-op workers, and handle the additional duties that come with teaching at a boarding school. It is likely that living the dorm would be an initial requirement of employment.