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Chief Financial Officer - University School
University School
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Posted: 23-Apr-26
Location: Hunting Valley, Ohio
Type: Full Time
University School seeks a talented and experienced Chief Financial Officer to lead the School’s Business Office, manage school finances, and work collaboratively with the Board of Trustees, Senior Administration, Faculty, and Staff to advance the educational mission of the School beginning with the 2026-2027 academic year.
The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is a member of the Head of School’s Directors’ Group. The Chief Financial Officer attends all Board of Directors meetings and is the primary staff member responsible on the Finance, Building and Grounds, and Investment committees of the Board. The CFO is also a member of the Admissions & Marketing and Advancement committees, as well as the Retirement Advisory committee of the Board. The CFO is responsible for the planning, control, account and reporting of income, expense, contributed and invested funds of the school. The CFO manages all activities designated as Business Office responsibilities including physical plant and grounds; risk management and insurance; transportation; compensation and benefits budgets; facilities leasing; and city, state, and federal government compliance.
Qualifications include: Bachelor’s degree required, M.B.A. and/or a master’s degree in a related field strongly preferred, CPA professional accreditation a plus but is not required, eight to ten years of financial and business leadership in a non-profit or for-profit organization and experience in an independent secondary school, college or university setting preferred though individuals with strong financial and leadership skills in a related field are encouraged to explore this high visibility opportunity.
Qualified and interested candidates should submit electronically in one email and as separate documents (preferably PDFs) the following materials to CFOrecruiting@us.edu.
A cover letter expressing interest in the position and elaborating on one’s priorities if appointed.
A current resume.
A list of five (5) professional references with name, phone number, and email address of each.
Founded in 1890, University School is a nationally recognized college preparatory school for approximately 880 boys. Originally located in downtown Cleveland, the initial curriculum involved a unique balance of liberal arts and manual arts. The sons of Cleveland’s industrial barons, so the thinking went, needed an Ivy League preparation in the classroom while also gaining an understanding of wood working and metal smithing in order to understand manufacturing and industrial production. As part of the legacy, the wrought iron gates, which still grace the entrance to one of our campuses, and the three magnificent weather vanes on the rooftops were handmade by students.
Over the course of the past century, the school expanded, moved out of the city, and is now located on two campuses. The Shaker Heights campus (K-8), built in 1925, sits on 35 acres in a tranquil, yet cosmopolitan and distinctive community eight miles from downtown Cleveland. The Hunting Valley campus (9-12), built in 1970, makes great use of its more than 220 wooded acres with playing fields, a trout hatchery, and a maple syrup operation.
University School is a boys’ school by design, not by accident. ...We believe boys thrive in a community that understands how they learn best and responds accordingly with a developmentally appropriate curriculum and school culture. The US faculty and staff understand and appreciate what makes boys tick, and our teaching practices and curriculum are based on this understanding.
In the Lower School (K-5), the curriculum is theme-based, so that mathematics, language arts, science and social studies are taught in an integrated fashion through a series of themes. Recent themes have included Mexico, Japanese and European feudal culture, the New England whaling industry, the Renaissance in Italy, Chinese Civilization, the culture and religion of Sikhs in India, the City of Paris. Spanish instruction begins in the early primary years, with options for French, Latin, Greek and Chinese at the middle and upper schools.
The Middle School brings a degree of structure and rigor that prepares boys for the Upper School experience, though we do not view it simply as a transition to the next stage. The MS curriculum is thoughtfully and deliberately designed to meet the boy at this very special stage of personal, intellectual, physical, and moral discovery. While academic disciplines are treated distinctly, and we leave the theme-based structure of the lower years, there is a strong effort to allow boys to continue to "roll up their sleeves and to learn by doing." When sixth graders study the Renaissance, they take an urban outward-bound style trip to Chicago. When seventh graders study Cleveland, they get out into the neighborhoods, take oral histories from WWII veterans in nursing homes, and study the city from the street level. When basic economics is part of the curriculum, boys put on their boots in March and go to the Hunting Valley campus to work on the economics of maple sugar production, from extracting sap from the trees all the way to marketing the final product.
The Upper School program takes a rigorous, more traditional, college prep approach with a full array of AP courses. Though even there, we offer multiple opportunities for independent study and project based initiatives during a boy’s high school years. The Political Awareness Essay Contest, the Sherman Prize Speaking Contest, the Davy Writing Fellowship program, and the Strnad Fellowship in Creativity program are all examples of longstanding traditions of the School that encourage boys to stretch themselves in new directions.
University School has a long-held commitment to globalism and is a founding member of the International Boys’ School Coalition, hosting the Coalition’s second conference in 1995. With our roots in the city of Cleveland, we have also been keenly interested in and devoted to serving the city, both through our service programs and through a strong financial aid budget that allows us to open our doors to a wide range of families, reflecting the socioeconomic diversity of the city. Our school is connected to schools and institutions in Kenya, Botswana and China, and these allow for remarkable opportunities to travel and to host visitors to our community.
