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Rector of Dollar Academy

Rector of Dollar Academy

Dollar Academy

Dollar, Clackmannanshire

Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
19 December 2018

Job overview

Fully co-educational day and boarding school for 5-18 since 1818.

The Governors of Dollar Academy Trust invite applications for the post of Rector. 

This is a unique opportunity for a visionary leader to build on the successes of this sector-leading school and maintain its position at the forefront of Scottish education, adapting and responding to a rapidly changing social, political and educational environment.

The school has flourished under its current excellent leadership; pupil numbers and academic results are at a record high, and it is fitting that in its bicentenary year the school was named Sunday Times Scottish Independent Secondary School of the Year 2018.

Dollar provides an outstanding all-round educational experience for pupils in a supportive and nurturing environment, and the Governors are seeking to appoint an individual who can not only sustain, but develop this, and who demonstrates a willingness to embrace and lead innovation, to ensure that our educational offering continues to be relevant and empowering to young people in a fast-changing world.

You will be an energetic, team-focused leader, with first-class strategic skills, strong intellectual abilities and a substantial track record of senior leadership. You will work with a high calibre and committed senior leadership team and engage the entire school community in the continued pursuit of excellence.

Dollar Academy has engaged FWB Park Brown as advisers on this appointment; for further details about the appointment please download the candidate information brochure via http://www.fwbparkbrown.com/portfolio/rector-of-dollar-academy/ or contact Judy Wagner via judy@fwbparkbrown.com

The closing date for applications is noon on Wednesday 19th December 2018 with interviews to take place around mid-January 2019.

Dollar Academy, Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, FK14 7DU | Dollar Academy is a registered Scottish Charity No.SC009888

About Dollar Academy

Dollar Academy was founded in 1818 as the UK’s first co-educational day and boarding school and has been at the heart of Scotland’s educational development for 200 years. The school is the Sunday Times Scottish Independent School of the Year 2018.

Dollar has over 1250 pupils aged 5-18, of whom approximately 75 are boarders. The school’s extensive 70 acre campus is set in a landscape of extraordinary natural beauty at the foot of the Ochil Hills in Central Scotland and is within easy reach of both Edinburgh and Glasgow. Edinburgh airport is conveniently situated and can be reached in 45 minutes.

Dollar is distinguished by its excellence in pastoral care, co-curricular provision and classroom teaching. 

Enjoyment of learning lies at the heart of this school and the aim is for all pupils to gain satisfaction from a real commitment to study and participation in the great range of sporting, art and cultural activities on offer. 

Dollar pupils undertake internationally recognised SQA examination courses and, in a typical year, over 65% of exam results are at Grade A. Although firmly grounded in the values of Scottish education, Dollar takes a deliberately international approach and the diverse boarding community is at the heart of school life. 

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