Caretaker

Job Description

We're seeking a dedicated and versatile Caretaker to join our school community for the 2024-2025 year. The Caretaker will be critical in maintaining our 63-acre campus, ensuring a safe, clean, and welcoming environment for our students, staff, and visitors. This position requires a mix of outdoor and indoor responsibilities, focusing on general maintenance, emergency response, and animal care outside our operating hours.

Ideal Candidates

  • Experience in facility maintenance, landscaping, or related fields

  • Basic knowledge of carpentry, plumbing, and HVAC systems

  • Comfortable with animal care, including goats, chickens, and farm cats

  • Able to operate snow removal equipment and perform manual snow-clearing

  • Knowledge of basic pest control methods

  • Flexible schedule to handle off-hours emergencies and daily end-of-day walkthroughs

  • Interest or experience in sustainable practices and permaculture is a plus

  • Legally authorized to work in the United States

Key Responsibilities

Outdoors:

  • Maintain pool during off-hours

  • Perform animal care duties during off-hours

  • Conduct an end-of-day walkthrough of buildings and grounds

  • Handle snow removal and de-icing

  • Manage trash and recycling

  • Maintain outdoor lighting systems

Indoors:

  • Recording daily UV numbers

  • Oversee laundry facilities

  • Manage basic pest control

  • Respond to fire and security alarms

  • Perform basic carpentry and plumbing tasks

  • Maintain HVAC systems, including cleaning mini-split, ERV, and furnace filters

Compensation and Benefits

This part-time, around-the-clock position would be ideal for someone with remote and flexible work, such as a student or a retiree. We offer a competitive rate (commensurate with experience).

Benefits include:

  • No-cost housing in an efficiency apartment at CMS, including utilities and parking

  • Sick Time, 401k, and others as defined in our Staff Handbook

  • 5 Days PTO

    Apply

If you're interested in becoming an integral part of our school community, please send your resume and cover letter to the email below. Black people, Indigenous people, people of color (BIPOC), lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and gender diverse people are all strongly encouraged to apply. Our school community seeks to help each child build the adult of their future and engender respect for the differences of others doing the same. The land surrounding and supporting the school also inspires and informs our work as we guide the children to become global citizens and stewards of this land and our planet.

Gaurapriya Tester 
Head of School
info@catskillmontessori.org