Deputy Head of Programme
English National Programme
France
- Expired
- Salary:
- to be negotiated within pay scale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- from September, 2017
- Apply by:
- 6 March 2017
Job overview
DEPUTY HEAD OF PROGRAMME in the English National Programme
part of the Lycée/Collège International, Ferney-Voltaire, France
(on the Swiss border, near Geneva)
APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 6th 2017
START OF CONTRACT: September, 2017
We
We are the English National Programme (ENP), the English speaking part of a leading public sector international school offering primary and secondary bilingual and bicultural education in English within the French state system. Our school is in France on the Swiss border, minutes from Geneva. We offer a British based curriculum and a range of examinations from the French and English systems, including GCE, GCSE and IGCSE, along with the Brevet and Baccalauréat from the French system. The school leaving qualification that we offer is the Option Internationale du Baccalauréat (OIB), which follows a bilingual curriculum jointly set by the French Education Nationale and Cambridge Assessment in England. We have a strong track record in placing students at high-ranking universities in the UK, North America and Europe.
We are looking for a Deputy Head of Programme to play a key role in helping to provide leadership and direction for ENP. We wish to recruit an individual who will work closely with the Head of Programme, the leadership team and the ENP governing body in building vision and shared values across the Programme while sustaining a culture that promotes excellence, collaboration and responsibility.
You
You have at least three years’ experience as Deputy or Assistant Head teacher in an 11-18 secondary school or five years as Head of Department or Head of Faculty and have proven potential for school leadership. A working knowledge of French would be an asset, but is not a requirement. However, a commitment to learning French, or improving your command, will be essential.
You are an educational leader who has played a decisive role in whole-school improvements, based on sound theory and practice, and you have confidence in your work. Outstanding communication skills and the ability to influence and convince will be highly relevant to this post. You will be able to drive policies for change and improvement, and will take on responsibility, working closely with the Leadership Team, for securing the involvement of staff in all initiatives.
You are a talented classroom practitioner in one of our three secondary subjects, English, Mathematics or History-Geography. Your teaching will exemplify the best of current practice, and be employable by you as a means to set high standards and a convincing improvement agenda.
The Programme
Pupils in ENP are part of a large public-sector French international school with over 2000 students, working on two sites. We teach three subject areas in English in secondary, and English in primary. History- geography and English language and literature form part of the French state curriculum of the sections internationales; we also offer IGCSE examinations in English and English Literature. I/GCSE and GCE Mathematics/Statistics exams are offered, allowing our students to take English examinations up to AS level in year 12. The international options of the Brevet (year 10) and Baccalauréat (year 13) link us to 40 or so other schools like ours within the French state system. These form a unique group in offering a major internationally-recognized school leaving qualification, along with, in most schools, examinations from the English system.
ENP is financed by parental tuition fees and governed by a parents’ association, the ALA-ELP association. The main part of pupils’ studies is taught in French and is not fee-paying. Subjects in ENP are taught, as if within an English school, to pupils who are mother-tongue English speakers or have good second language competence. The Programme has 1000 primary and secondary pupils who have to make a rapid transfer between French and English as they move between lessons taught using the methods of French and English school systems. For more details, please see ‘Employer information’.
Our offer
We offer a competitive salary commensurate with the skills and qualities you bring to the post. An installation package and top-up health insurance are also offered. Social security contributions are deducted at source and give healthcare coverage and other benefits. The Lycée and the Programme form a unique and highly stimulating environment. The Programme’s pupils are drawn from a strong demographic base and are enthusiastic about their education. The parent body is highly supportive and the Programme is well-funded. There is a high potential for excellence in teaching, learning and achievement, all of which makes for a highly rewarding working environment.
Contract
An open-ended full-time contract (CDI or contrat a durée indeterminée) is offered, commencing with two consecutive two-month probationary periods.
Application
Apply by email only, sending a full letter of application and current CV with names and contact details of three professional referees to the following address to arrive by Monday March 6th: deputyHOPsearch@enpferney.org Please see fuller guidelines regarding application in the attachment ‘How to apply’. Our website and all attachments should be consulted before applying.
Attached documents
About English National Programme
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The English National Programme is a ‘section internationale’ within the French state educational system, governed and financed by a parents’ association. It teaches several secondary subjects in English for part of the school week within the French Lycée/Collège International de Ferney-Voltaire and offers part time complementary primary education in English in years 2-6.
The employer and governing body of the Programme is the parents’ association, ALA-ELP, a well-established structure that has been employing teachers for many years. Parents pay an annual fee to the association for tuition by ENP staff and for resources used or provided by the Programme. The ALA-ELP school budget covers purchase of books and libraries, ICT equipment, staff CPD, inspection and so forth. Secondary classrooms are made available to ENP by the French school in which it works.
The Lycée/Collège International is a prestigious French state secondary school, with historical connections with CERN, the particle physics laboratory, and incorporating international sections in several languages. The Lycée/ Collège as a whole now welcomes well over 2,000 pupils and occupies a site with views of the Jura mountains and the Alps, on the edge of Ferney-Voltaire and near the open countryside of the French/Swiss border.
Places in the school and in the Programme are much sought after. They are awarded, after entrance test, by the ‘proviseur’ of the Lycée/Collège. Continued growth in numbers has led to a second Lycée site being built in St Genis-Pouilly, a short drive away. This site opened in September 2016. ENP teaches on both Lycée sites and applicants are asked to note that the post advertised will involve work on both and travel between them.
The English National Programme, with over 1000 pupils altogether in secondary and primary, is the largest international section in the Lycée and now among the largest in France. The school also has German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Swedish sections. All pupils in the school receive the major part of their education in French. The Programme teaches bilingual pupils in English for part of the school week: half a day for primary pupils and 6 or 8 hours per week for secondary pupils. Primary pupils study English only. Secondary pupils study English (for 4 hours) as well History-Geography for 2 hours and Mathematics in English, a subject which is taught as an option (in addition to the compulsory Mathematics course taught in French) for 2 or 3 hours per week. While secondary pupils are part of an international school, and while their ENP lessons form an integral part of the school week, primary pupils attend their local town or village French school and come to the Lycée site for one of three half days (according to age-group) each week for tuition in English.
In certain ways, the Programme acts as an autonomous educational unit within the school, with its own teaching departments and its own leadership structure. The Leadership Team works with the Head of Programme to lead and manage the Programme effectively. ENP’s main aim is to apply English educational principles and curricula, as well as teaching and assessment methods, to the teaching of subjects in English within a French state school context, enriching pupils’ bicultural education and development and aiming for high levels of achievement. ENP pupils are a mix of nationalities, with a sizeable minority of first language speakers and pupils with good second language mastery, many of them French. All pupils are taught in mixed groups. Care is taken to limit class size as much as possible, so that a strong emphasis can be laid on participation and oral work and on teachers’ knowing pupils well, maintaining strong positive relationships, and promoting rapid progress.
Exams results as well as summaries of the university places gained by pupils can be seen on the ENP website; recent Newsletters, published by ALA-ELP and available on the site, will give applicants a sense of the successes and achievements, academic and personal, of our pupils and of the range of activities of the Programme and the Association.
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