Violin Teacher
Eton College
Windsor and Maidenhead
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- November 2019
- Apply by:
- 28 September 2019
Job overview
Violin Teacher (Maternity Cover)
Eton College is seeking to appoint an experienced and talented violin teacher to start in November 2019. Eton has an excellent reputation for music making and it’s orchestral and chamber music scenes are flourishing. Responsibilities will be to teach and inspire violin playing to boys across the 13-18 age range, encouraging technical and musical development. You will also monitor, record and report on pupils’ progress; meet all administrative deadlines and attend concerts in which your pupils perform (when possible).
Main Duties
- To teach violin across the 13-18 age range
- To monitor, record and report on pupils’ progress
- To meet all administrative deadlines
- To attend concerts in which your pupils perform (when possible)
The Ideal Candidate
- A music degree, diploma or professional teaching qualification.
- Previous experience of teaching 13-18 year olds
- Experience of teaching to and beyond Music College entry standard
- Experience of playing at top professional level
- Good written and verbal communication skills, especially in relation to staff, students and parents.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent IT skills.
- To have a willingness to collaborate and coordinate with other teachers and musicians in the department.
You will also need to be:
- A ‘team’ player with the ability to work flexibly as part of a diverse team.
- Positive, enthusiastic and flexible with a pro-active attitude.
- Able to adapt to changing situations.
- Able to work evenings and weekend by arrangement.
- Approachable, open and honest.
- Dedicated, conscientious and hard working.
Benefits
Eton College offers a wide range of benefits, including an 11% employer contribution to your pension (with 4.9% employee contribution), a cycle to work scheme and free access to the College’s sport and leisure facilities.
Salary
Competitive
Closing date: 29 September 2019 at midnight
Full details and an application form are available from our website:
https://recruitmenthub.etoncollege.com/members/?j=45&jobboard=TES
Eton College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
About Eton College
Eton College is a charity for the advancement of education. At its heart sits an independent boys’ boarding school which leads a dynamic range of educational activities and an expanding network of educational partnerships. The charity’s primary purpose, determined from its Christian foundation in 1440, is to draw out the best of young people’s talents and to enable them to flourish and make a positive impact on others through the course of a healthy, happy and fulfilling life. Founded to offer transformative educational opportunities to boys with limited life chances, currently over 100 boys pay no fees at all.
With an extensive curriculum both within and beyond the classroom, a focus on pastoral excellence, and a growing expertise in digital education through its digital education platform, EtonX, Eton College stands in the vanguard of educational developments. Its award-winning flagship embedded research facility, The Tony Little Centre for Innovation and Research in Learning, is at the core of these new developments, informing Eton College's own educational practice, as well as sharing best practice across the sector.
In addition, Eton Connect coordinates over 1,000 cross-sector partnerships between schools, charities and other organisations working together for the benefit of young people and teachers. Through research, digital resources, summer schools, visits and events, Eton Connect brings people together who are determined to increase the range of learning opportunities available to young people. Last year, Eton Connect coordinated activities for over 5,400 state school pupils, with over 2,000 pupils continuing to visit its museums and collections each year.
As it looks forward, the ambitions of the charity will continue to broaden, from maintaining and developing new partnerships to the plans for opening selective state sixth form colleges in partnership with Star Academies in Middlesbrough, Dudley and Oldham. Its partnership with Holyport College, an Ofsted outstanding state-maintained boarding school, is one of the strongest, closest and most reciprocal cross-sector partnerships in the UK. Amongst other partnerships, Eton College also co-sponsors the London Academy of Excellence, an outstanding sixth form in Newham, East London.
Headmaster Simon Henderson
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