Middle School Literacies and Regenerative Design Educator

Green School Bali is a wall-less campus in the heart of the jungle, where education is lived, not delivered. Sustainability is our operational floor: the way we care for resources day to day. But our true work is regeneration: restoring ecosystems, re-patterning relationships, and creating conditions for all life to thrive.

In this living curriculum, literacies are indispensable. Regeneration is not only about soil, water, and energy. It is also about the ways we read the world, write ourselves into it, speak across differences, and listen for meaning. Reading and writing are not isolated skills; they are practices that connect stories to place, voices to community, and communication to action.

Here, students develop fluency in multiple literacies (textual, digital, cultural, ecological) while also learning to critique the systems of power that shape them. Literacies become design tools: ways of restoring connection, renewing imagination, and re-patterning how we live together.

Our invitation is bold: to help young people grow as readers, writers, speakers, and listeners who can hold complexity, question assumptions, and contribute regeneratively, not only as future professionals, but as present participants in the renewal of the world.

Role Description

The Middle School is a lively learning neighborhood of ~100 students across grades 6–8 within the wider Green School Bali community. Our teaching team works collaboratively to design learning experiences that are joyful, challenging, and deeply connected to real-world issues, always asking how we might learn with and contribute to the community (human and other-than-human).

We are looking for a passionate Middle School Literacies educator who can help young adolescents grow as readers, writers, speakers, and thinkers, not only in English but across the multiple literacies needed to navigate and shape today’s world. This role is about more than teaching comprehension or grammar; it’s about helping students discover how language and story shape our relationships, our communities, and our futures, and how they can be reimagined in service of Life.

Working in close collaboration with our dynamic Middle School team, the Literacies Educator creates learning that is integrated, project-based, community-connected, and grounded in regenerative practice. The role calls for creativity, adaptability, and a commitment to nurturing diverse ways of knowing and learning.

To thrive in this role, you’ll bring both a strong foundation in literacies and the imagination to cross boundaries, weaving reading, writing, and communication into dialogue with ecology, design, culture, and lived community experience.

Position Criteria

• Grounded in a regenerative worldview: sees literacies not as isolated skills, but as ways of making meaning across living systems, guided by principles of regenerative design.
• Connected literacies: integrates reading, writing, speaking, and listening with wider literacies (digital, cultural, ecological) so students experience language as relational and world-shaping.
• Love of reading and texts: fosters joy in reading a wide range of texts, from literature to informational writing, helping students see themselves as readers who connect stories to their own lives and the wider world.
• Creating with students: works alongside students to write, revise, and share texts that matter to them (personal, academic, and creative) building both skill and voice.
• Designing for agency: creates opportunities where stories, texts, and communication practices help restore connection, renew imagination, and re-pattern how we live together.
• Practical and lived: approaches literacies as daily practice: reading, writing, dialogue, and co-creating spaces where students’ voices matter.
• Critical and hopeful: helps students recognize how language reflects systems of power, while encouraging them to imagine and design alternatives.
• Relational in practice: cultivates classrooms as learning communities where every student’s expression is honored and collective meaning-making is real.
• Reflective and adaptive: open to surprise and growth, committed to ongoing learning as part of a regenerative Middle School neighborhood and BiRD’s (Biomimicry for Regenerative Design) vision for education in service of Life.
  

Other Requirements (by Indonesian Law)

• Must be holding a Bachelor of Education in English Language/Literature - and have experience teaching in that field for a minimum of 5 years. 
• Must hold a Teaching Certificate
• Must be able to pass a HIV test (legally required).
• Must not have any previous criminal convictions (legally required).
• Must not have any Child Protection concerns on file at previous schools or workplaces.
• Must be able to provide an original copy of certifications, transcripts, diploma and/or degrees (legally required).
• Any successful candidate must be willing to learn and communicate in Bahasa Indonesia.

The Unique Green School Bali Opportunity

• Be part of a mission-driven organisation and enjoy the freedom and independence to engage in new learning methods, projects and experiment with your ideas. 
• Be a member of an inspirational, intellectual and vibrant community of professionals.
• Hone your educator skills through peer training, exposure to hugely inspirational visitors and community members, and a formal professional development programme focusing on education for sustainability.
• Receive an employment package that allows for a comfortable and exciting lifestyle in beautiful Bali.
• Have the opportunity to share with the world your impact as an educator via our various platforms that allow for personal attribution and credit.

Start Date : August 2026

OUR CORE COMMITMENT TO CHILD PROTECTION

Please refer to our Student Safeguarding Policy HERE

Green School Bali is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all the students in our care and expects all applicants to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices, which are aligned with the recommendations of the International Task Force on Child Protection. We hold ourselves to a high standard of effective recruiting practices with specific attention to child protection. All appointments are subject to an interview, identity checks, criminal record checks, social media checks, successful references, as well as due visa and work permit process as required by Indonesian law.

GSB and EiM are committed to diversity within its team, organisational practices, policies and culture. It recognises that people with different backgrounds, skills, attitudes and experiences bring fresh ideas and perceptions, and it encourages and leverages these differences to make its work more relevant and approachable. EiM will not discriminate or tolerate discriminatory behaviour on any grounds such as, but not limited to, race, gender, disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age or socioeconomic background. EiM strives to be an inclusive workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging, has a voice, can raise concerns, and feels comfortable and confident. It expects everyone who works with it to share this commitment and to act accordingly, as it aspires to best serve the mission and its community.

Thank you for your interest in Green School Bali.