Post Graduate Sports Internships

The College seeks to appoint recent graduates to provide a range of supporting functions to the provision of sport at Eastbourne College from September 2024.

The right person/s will have a marvellous opportunity to work in a stimulating environment where resources, buildings, colleagues and pupils all strengthen the process of teaching and learning.

Co-curricular activity is considered to be an important cornerstone in the education and development of pupils.

Pupils are encouraged and expected to participate in a wide variety of co-curricular experiences including sport. The College offers a wide range of sports ranging from the core sports of rugby, hockey, cricket and athletics for boys and hockey, netball, athletics and tennis for girls; there are also a range of non-core sports options including swimming, basketball, badminton, rowing, sailing, fencing to name a few. The College’s multi-million-pound Winn Building includes amongst other things a state-of-the-art sports hall, swimming pool, fitness suite, squash courts and dance studio.

This is an opportunity for an enthusiastic sport oriented person to work and gain first-hand experience across a range of areas of sport management, administration and delivery in a secondary school setting. Eastbourne College has a reputation for taking its sport seriously and this opportunity provides an excellent stepping stone for launching into a career in teaching or wider sports management. The College will support opportunities for the successful candidate to progress in some further qualifications in sport coaching, pool lifeguarding to name a few. Single accommodation is provided. The successful candidate is expected to be a self-starter who is self-reliant and can work with minimum supervision. An ability to work closely with others, to organise and deliver events and possess good IT skills is essential.

They will work directly with the College’s Director of Sport.

The College

Eastbourne College Incorporated is the term for the combination of Eastbourne College and St. Andrew’s Prep School. The two schools are run separately but are part of the same Charity and a single Board of Governors bears overall responsibility.

Eastbourne College is a co-educational HMC independent school of just over 660 pupils, of whom half are full-time boarders. It is a strong community with excellent links with local schools and the remarkable town in which it is located.

Academic standards are very high with an average of 85% of A-level grades being awarded A*, A or B in the last four years. At GCSE approximately two thirds of all grades awarded are A* or A. The College recruits from a wide ability range and value added outcomes are exemplary. The majority of College leavers enter higher education in leading universities at home or abroad.

The College is run as a seven-day week, full boarding school. Day pupils share the same wide curriculum as boarders and enjoy equal access to the physical and human resources of the school. Day pupils can complete their prep in Houses; buses run at both 18:00 and 20:00 on weekday evenings.

We are proud of our rich cultural and sporting traditions. The recently built Birley Centre is a hub of music practice, performance, composition, and recording. There is an established partnership with Glyndebourne and links with Rambert Dance Company, local artists, and musical ensembles. College artists exhibit in London, actors have starred in film and TV; the Design & Technology department wins an extraordinary number of Arkwright scholarships. We have an enviable reputation for sport both regionally and nationally. Eastbournians frequently represent the county in hockey, rugby, cricket, and netball; several old Eastbournians have gone on to achieve international honours. There are also thriving CCF, D of E and service programmes.

Eastbourne College places great emphasis on the importance of developing a school in which education is built on core values and positive, supportive relationships. These central qualities will endure long after a student moves on from the College. The five key values of participation, the pursuit of excellence, integrity, courtesy, and kindness are,it believes, the bedrock upon which every child’s education should stand, providing them with the wherewithal to flourish both at school and beyond.

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