Assistant Foreign Principal
Royal Grammar School Guildford, Nanjing
Nanjing, China
- Expired
- Salary:
- A generous salary scale plus benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- August 2021
- Apply by:
- 15 February 2021
Job overview
RGS Guildford, Nanjing is a premium bilingual school that is a partnership between Gemdale Education and the Royal Grammar School, Guildford in the UK, which is a prestigious school with more than 500 years of history. The Nanjing school opened this September, and we are now recruiting staff for our second year of operation (September 2021).
We are seeking an Assistant Foreign Principal who will work with the Foreign Principal to help oversee a significant expansion of the international elements in the Primary School and, to some extent, the Junior High School.
The successful candidate must:
• Be an experienced and qualified Primary School teacher
• Have experience of teaching an international (ideally UK) Primary curriculum
• Be fluent in written and spoken English
• Have held a management or leadership position
Ideally, the successful candidate will:
• Also speak at least some Chinese
• Have worked at school(s) overseas, preferably in China
• Have some teaching experience beyond the Primary School age group
• Have taught students for whom English is not their first language
• Have experience of Project Based Learning
A full job description is attached. The closing date is 18/02/2021. Early applications are advised as we reserve the right to interview and appoint an exceptional candidate in advance of the closing date.
Attached documents
About Royal Grammar School Guildford, Nanjing
- Royal Grammar School Guildford, Nanjing
- Kangjian Road, Jiangbei New Area, Nanjing
- Jiangsu
- 211880
- China
RGS Guildford, Nanjing (RGSGNJ) is a partnership between Gemdale Education in China and The Royal Grammar School in Guildford, UK. RGS Guildford is a high achieving independent school with a proud history of more than 500 years. Its pupils have received some 350 Oxbridge offers over the past decade. RGS Guildford also has schools in Qatar, Dubai and Oman with plans to open more. The Gemdale Corporation was ranked by Forbes in 2018 as the top real estate company in China, with assets of some 40 billion USD.
RGSGNJ was opened in August 2020, with approximately 80 students. Now in its fourth year it has enjoyed rapid growth and now has nearly 600 students. It boasts a magnificent campus with superb facilities near the River Yangtze in the Pukou district of Nanjing, one of China's most historic cities. Pukou is a well established district, and the city centre is within easy reach. Nanjing is a green city with beautiful parks and hills. It is a very comfortable city for international staff whilst feeling traditionally Chinese. The fastest trains reach Shanghai in one hour and Beijing in three and a half hours. It is very well connected and has a busy international airport.
As a bilingual international school, the Chinese National Curriculum is taught in Grades 1 to 9 and an International Curriculum in Grades 10 to 12 (The International High School, IHS). The school is currently seeking IB authorisation for the PYP and MYP as a vehicle to delivering the Chinese National Curriculum in a manner than better prepares the students for international education. International teachers are employed throughout the school and make up nearly half of the teaching team in the IHS. The IHS curriculum is based on IGCSEs and A levels. The majority of our leavers go on to universities in the UK, USA and Australia.
The IHS operates a House system and Tutor system. Developing skills and extracurricular activities are important to us and our teaching team contributes to school life beyond classroom teaching. The school is not an "exam factory". The IHS is run by an international principal who was appointed from his role of International Education Director at the UK parent school.
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