Deputy Head: Care & Guidance (Secondary)

About Nord Anglia Education

Nord Anglia Education is the world’s leading premium schools organisation, with more than 80 schools located across dozens of countries in the Americas, Europe, China, Southeast Asia, India and the Middle East. Together, our schools educate over 68,000 students from kindergarten through to the end of secondary school.

Our philosophy for education rests on our four pillars of creativity, wellbeing, excellent academic outcomes, and global connectedness. These are delivered through innovative use of educational technology to create a personalised 21st century learning experience for all students.

Every parent wants the best for their child — so do we. Nord Anglia schools deliver high quality, transformational education and ensure excellent academic outcomes by going beyond traditional learning. Our global scale enables us to recruit and retain world-leading teachers and to offer unforgettable experiences through global and regional events, while our engaging learning environments ensure all of our students love coming to school.

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Our schools

Each Nord Anglia Education school is unique in character and designed to meet the needs of its community. We are united by our philosophy, to be ambitious for our students, our people, and our family of schools. We believe that being part of our family of schools gives them a special advantage. Working together, we can achieve more than we can individually. Our schools have access to a wide range of resources and support to enhance their success.

We also create unique opportunities to benefit our students and people, such as the Global Campus, Nord Anglia University, and our collaborations with The Juilliard School, MIT, UNICEF, and King’s College London.

The British International School Budapest

Located beside a golf course in the leafy 3rd District of Budapest, a short distance from the Danube and the city centre, our school campus is modern and well-resourced. Primary students benefit from one-to-one iPads and secondary students bring their own laptops. Specialist rooms are equipped with first class facilities, enabling our students to take advantage of our collaborations with The Juilliard School New York and MIT. Three major development projects in three years have added additional specialist facilities for the performing arts, visual art, science, computing and sports. Our multicultural students are motivated and enthusiastic, enjoying a lively approach to learning, and they are committed to active service and leadership in and beyond school. We are proud of our strong and supportive community, founded on elements of our mission statement and developed through shared values, consistently enacted by students, parents and staff. As we look towards 2023 and beyond, we seek enthusiastic and committed colleagues to help further our vision of “empowered students in a sustainable school.”

To learn more about our school, please visit our website: www.bisb.hu

Deputy Head (secondary)

This is an exciting opportunity for an adaptable and experienced professional to lead Care and Guidance across our secondary school.

You will be an outstanding leader, ensuring ambitious standards of achievement for all students through the development of learning, teaching and the curriculum. You will be a skilled communicator, able to work with and through the Care and Guidance leadership team to monitor, evaluate and raise standards. As a senior leader, you will have an eye on the future and will support the Secondary Leadership Team in developing care and guidance as well as ensuring the smooth day to day running of the Secondary School.

You will demonstrate the highest standards of professionalism and will, in particular: 

• To lead the Secondary School in all aspects of Care and Guidance
• To lead the school-wide Restorative Approach
• To lead the school-wide Student Wellbeing Strategy
• To serve as school-wide Designated Safeguarding Lead
• Generate excitement and passion for learning across the school community;
• Inspire trust and confidence in students, colleagues and parents;
• Engage and motivate students to strive for the highest achievements;
• Be relentless in the quest for excellence, using achievement and progress data and lesson observations to support learning
• Build and continue to develop strong teams, and create the conditions for staff to learn from each other;
• Contribute to school improvement planning and the continued development of pastoral support, including our Guidance (PSHE) curriculum;
• Promote the school mission and values, and those of the NAE family of schools.

Benefits

The successful candidate will enjoy a competitive package. You will have the opportunity to live and work in one of the world’s most vibrant cities. Budapest is a modern, cosmopolitan city, steeped in history and within easy reach of beautiful countryside. Conde Nast Traveler regularly places Budapest as one of the best cities in the world to visit. Budapest is also one of the world’s most affordable cities, located in the heart of Europe, within easy reach of the best of central, eastern and western Europe. Public transport, the arts and culture, shopping, dining and outdoor activity are incomparable. Several of our teachers have chosen to settle here, while others move on to international careers within Nord Anglia Education and beyond.

When you join a Nord Anglia Education school, you join a global community of more than 14,000 people working together to support our students’ success. We offer you unsurpassed opportunities to innovate and develop best practice across our family, to access extensive professional development, and to gain exceptional experience and career development in our schools. At Nord Anglia, you will have opportunities to progress more, learn more, and collaborate more.

We offer career and development opportunities that come with being part of our global organisation. Nord Anglia University unites our team through a vibrant online platform which harnesses the collective expertise of their peers in an exchange of knowledge, ideas and best practice. We also provide extensive online and face-to-face professional development through Nord Anglia University to ensure that our teachers don’t just maintain their skills, they develop at the cutting edge of educational thinking.

Our collaborations with The Juilliard School, MIT, UNICEF and King’s College London, offers our teachers unrivalled access to leading experts in their fields. We also offer selected candidates from our staff worldwide an opportunity to earn their Executive Master’s in International Education in an exclusive collaboration with King’s College London.

Alongside great training and a competitive package, you’ll enjoy the chance to live and work in one of the worlds' most vibrant cities.

Selection Process

The final closing date for applications is 5th December 2022. 

Please note: Early applications are encouraged, and we reserve the right to interview and appoint before the closing date.

First stage interviews will be conducted by Teams and final interviews will take place in person or by Teams, depending on location.

Start date: 15th August 2023.