Clerk to the Governors
UWC Atlantic
Vale of Glamorgan
- Expired
- Salary:
- £16,000 per annum for an average of 2 days per week
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 24 March 2017
Job overview
UWC Atlantic College, founded in 1962, is the original United World College. Enjoying a spectacular location at St. Donat’s Castle, perched above the Bristol Channel approximately 20 miles west of Cardiff, our 350 students are drawn from over 90 countries, with many attending on scholarship and all of them taking part in a well-developed co-curricular programme. Our unique and distinctive mission is ‘to be a world class educational institution equipping students with the skills and developing the commitment and confidence needed to create a more peaceful, socially just and sustainable world’. The College encourages international understanding and tolerance by demonstrating that conflict and hostility can be overcome if young people from different nations, races and religions are brought together and challenged physically and academically.
Instrumental in the creation of the International Baccalaureate, UWC Atlantic College has a global reputation for educational innovation. It continues to develop new programmes such as the Atlantic Diploma in which students undertake experiential work in areas such as outdoor service, social justice, sustainability and conflict resolution.
Highly organised and self-motivated, you will be accountable to the Board of Governors, covering approximately 19 meetings a year, consisting of 3 Board and 16 committee meetings. Meetings are generally held on weekdays and last approximately 3 hours.
The role averages 14 hours per week of administrative duties, which includes the clerking of all meetings. Excellent organisation, communication and ICT skills are essential, as is the ability to take accurate minutes of meetings. You will have an interest in education, be reliable and able to observe confidentiality requirements. Previous experience of clerking to governors is essential.
Further information about this position, including details of how to apply, is available on our website www.atlanticcollege.org/careers.
Closing date for receipt of applications: 5 p.m. on 24 March 2017
Interviews will be held on: 12 April 2017
UWC Atlantic College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Registered Charity Number: 525761
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About UWC Atlantic
ATLANTIC COLLEGE: Background
UWC Atlantic is at the heart of a powerful global movement and at the vanguard of progressive education worldwide. We are proud to be a part of the UWC family of 18 schools and colleges worldwide – and for our courage to champion the values, ideas and aspirations in which we all believe. We are driven by the UWC mission to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future. It drives everything we do.
We continue to embrace the spirit of those pioneers who not only created the College in Wales in 1962 and launched the UWC movement in 1967 but who also co-created the International Baccalaureate Diploma programme, in collaboration with the International School of Geneva (Ecolint) and UN International School in New York (UNIS).
Our multicultural student body, from over 90 countries every year, comprises young people from vastly differing political, religious, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. They are selected to attend UWC Atlantic based on their demonstrated promise and potential, to make a difference in the fields of sustainability, social justice and peace. These inspirational young people are the next generation of change makers, empowered to go on to careers and lives that create impact locally, nationally and globally.
The first of 18 United World Colleges now located across the Globe, UWC Atlantic was inspired by educationist Kurt Hahn to engage young people from all nations in finding peaceful means to bring together a world divided by political, racial and social barriers.
UWC Atlantic was the first school in the UK (in 1971) and also one of the first colleges in the world to follow an international curriculum. It continues to lead the way in pioneering new options for the International Baccalaureate Diploma which its students study over a two year period.
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