Emma Willard School

Founded in 1814 by Emma Hart Willard, Emma Willard School is one of the oldest all-girls secondary schools in the United States. The boarding and day school enrolls between 300 and 500 high school girls on a hillside campus in Troy, New York, just across the Hudson from Albany. It is non-sectarian, and language offerings include Mandarin, French, Latin, and Spanish.

Teaching at an all-girls school shapes daily work in specific ways. Every seminar, lab, and studio is led by young women, so faculty build courses around that fact rather than adapting around it. Class sizes stay small. The mix of boarders and day students means a teacher may see the same student in class, at lunch, and in a dorm common room on the same afternoon.

Faculty life leans collaborative, but with clear expectations. Many teaching roles carry a residential or advising component, and dorm parents receive on-campus housing and term-time meals as part of the package. Department chairs tend to hire for curricular curiosity over a fixed playbook.

The financial picture is solid. Net assets sit near $255 million on about $42 million in annual revenue, and fundraising grew roughly 13 percent last year. That stability supports competitive salaries, health and retirement benefits, and a real professional development budget in upstate New York.

Emma Willard hires across teaching departments, residential life, athletics, arts, and administration. Recent searches include leadership roles like Dean of Enrollment Management alongside the yearly cycle of faculty openings. Applications run through the school's careers site.