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Rowing Coach

Rowing Coach

Headington School

Oxford, Oxfordshire

Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Start date:
February/March 2018
Apply by:
1 March 2018

Job overview

Rowing Coach, PT

Start date: February/March   2018

Headington is a vibrant and welcoming school set in 23 acres of   playing fields and grounds. In an   environment where individuals come first, Headington is renowned for its   commitment to academic excellence and an impressive range of sports, music   and arts. This is a superb opportunity   to join a dynamic coaching team with a successful   club. 

Applicants   are invited to apply for the position of Rowing Coach with Headington School   Oxford Boat Club, this role will involve instructing a squad of rowers in the   basic skills of sculling and/or rowing.  You will be passionate about rowing and ideally   possess relevant rowing coaching and first aid qualifications or certificates   (training for suitable applicants may be provided). You will have experience   of rowing and sculling and be flexible and able to commit to working weekends,   before and after school and during holiday periods.

Duties   include coaching three or four week days (depending on role) from 4pm to   6:30pm and Saturdays and Sundays from 8am to 12pm. Coaches will also need to   be available for boat club events for the duration (Regattas/Head races, camps,   meetings and fund raising events). 

If you are interested in applying for this position please refer to our website: www.headington.org for a job specification and application form.

Please send your completed application form and covering letter to recruitment@headington.org

Closing date: 5th February, interviews w/c 5th February 2018

Applicants must be able to provide evidence of having the right to live and work in the UK and be prepared to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

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About Headington School

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+44 1865 759 100

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Headington is a leading day and boarding school for girls aged 3-18, set in a green 23-acre site located a mile from Oxford city centre.

It is a place where girls are given the opportunities to grow and develop their strengths and talents, whatever they may be, partnering academic excellence with superlative pastoral care and extra-curricular activities. While academically selective, girls are selected on potential and many achieve far beyond their predictions on entry. The focus is on providing a well-rounded education, with fantastic teaching and learning complemented by exciting, inspiring and challenging opportunities outside the classroom, and ensuring girls are ready for their future, whatever it may hold.

Headington’s results regularly place it among the top schools in the country at GCSE and A Level. The School offers an extremely broad curriculum, with over 20 subjects to choose from at GCSE and a choice of nearly 30 subjects in the Sixth Form. Girls benefit from proximity to Oxford’s two universities with a wide-ranging programme of speakers, lectures and visits involving experts and specialists from Oxford and Oxford Brookes. 

Around 150 different extra-curricular activities are on offer each week, featuring academic enrichment, creative arts, sport, dance, performing arts and leadership and enrichment. 

The School is rated excellent in all areas by the Independent Schools Inspectorate. The School, which has over 1,000 pupils across the prep and senior schools, has a thoroughly international and culturally diverse outlook, with more than 45 different nationalities represented. Around one in four of the 800 Senior School girls board and there are opportunities for staff to become involved in the boarding life of the School alongside their day to day roles. 

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