Latin Teacher (9-12, FT)

The St. Jerome Institute NOVA is seeking a teacher of Latin for the 2026-2027 school year. SJI NOVA seeks in its founding year to bring into being in a new location what we have already proven possible: that joy and order can thrive together in harmony, that faith and reason are meant to work together, and that humility and the pursuit of excellence are the calling of all young people.

The Latin teacher will help guide students on an adventure into the West’s foundational language. For centuries, the most beautiful and profound works of the most creative and educated minds, from late antiquity through the Renaissance, were written in Latin. Even if many of these works were not still untranslated and inaccessible to contemporary readers, the promise of being able to read an author in his own language and in his very words opens students to an entire world that has been “lost in translation” for the last hundred years. For this reason, the goal of the Latin program at St. Jerome Institute is not merely to be able to translate works with the aid of a dictionary, but to be able to truly enjoy those of appropriate reading level, and so begin to reclaim our literary and academic heritage. The successful candidate will believe in this mission and have the mastery of Latin to make it achievable. If you believe you have the right unity of mission and competency, apply today!

St. Jerome Institute NOVA (SJI), is a co-ed, classical liberal arts high school in the Catholic tradition. SJI NOVA will open in its doors in August 2026 in Falls Church, Virginia, and is a first daughter of the original campus in Washington, DC, which was founded in 2019. SJI has reinvented traditional education to meet the challenges of our time. Our curriculum opens the most fundamental questions of the human heart at the very moment when young men and women are longing to understand themselves and their place in the world. Shoulder to shoulder with great thinkers, writers, artists, and saints, and led by the light of the Catholic intellectual tradition, we embark on a grand journey of academic excellence and joyful self-discovery.

SJI possesses a remarkable school culture of joy, order, faithfulness, and academic rigor.  SJI is seeking candidates who know their subjects deeply and are capable of guiding students to virtue and leading them into the full maturity of Christian adulthood. Therefore, the ideal candidate has been deeply formed in the Catholic intellectual tradition and also possesses the rhetorical and leadership capacity to direct and inspire students, as well as an understanding of the St. Jerome Institute Educational Plan.