Director of Admissions
The King's School Canterbury
Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 9 May 2025
Job overview
The King’s School is one of the oldest schools in the country and, today, one of the UK’s leading co-educational boarding and day schools, providing an outstanding, 21st-century education to pupils ages 3–18.
With a new Head, Jude Lowson, who joined in September 2023, King’s is entering a new chapter and has ambitious targets to attract high-quality applicants to the school.
We are looking for an outstanding Director of Admissions to lead and oversee our pupil recruitment and onboarding across all three schools. With entry points ranging from the nursery to Sixth Form, this is a varied and wide-ranging role that has both strategic and operational responsibilities.
The aims of the role are:
- To further develop and implement strategies to attract highly capable pupils of talent, energy and academic curiosity from the UK and internationally.
- To ensure that all communications and events for prospective parents are effective in driving demand for places at the school.
- To nurture and further develop relationships with feeder schools such that we remain a highly recommended destination of choice.
- To further develop ways of assessing talent and potential in candidate pupils.
- To report admissions data, both qualitative and quantitative, to senior managers and governors and further develop systems which accurately record and monitor key metrics.
- To lead and effectively manage the admissions team in order to deliver on the objectives above.
Candidates with a wide range of experiences and backgrounds are encouraged to apply. You may currently be a teacher but with experience in admissions functions, an existing registrar, or someone who has transferrable skills from an allied sector. Give the scale of responsibilities, it is anticipated that the appointee is likely to be a non-teaching member of staff. However, candidates who have a teaching background alongside the responsibilities of this role are encouraged to apply and to indicate this as part of their supporting statement.
The King’s School offers an extensive rewards package, including:
- Gold membership at The King’s School Recreation Centre.
- Enhanced employer pension contributions up to 10%.
- Employee assistance programme.
- Life assurance.
- Cycle-to-work scheme.
- Free meals during term time.
- In-house training and CPD opportunities.
For further information and to apply online, please visit the job opportunities page of our website.
Closing date: 9 May 2025.
Please note that candidates may be called for interview before the closing date, and the post will close if an appointment is made.
The King’s School is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process which is in line with the statutory Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates.
All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and, where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
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About The King's School Canterbury
- The King's School Canterbury
- The King's School, 25 The Precincts, Canterbury
- Kent
- CT1 2ES
- United Kingdom
THE KING’S SCHOOL is a leading independent co-educational boarding school, situated in the heart of the historic cathedral city of Canterbury in Kent. The precincts of Canterbury Cathedral are part of a world heritage site, a centre of pilgrimage and study, and host to over one million visitors each year from many different cultures. This international dimension deeply influences the life of the city and the school.
The origins of King’s date back to the arrival of St Augustine in 597 AD and the school’s Christian tradition remains at its heart although pupils and staff subscribe to many different faiths and beliefs and none. Embracing this diversity, there is a desire to foster fairness, tolerance, courage, perseverance, mutual respect and understanding. The Benedictine tradition of developing mind, body and spirit within a community given to hospitality still influences the life of the Cathedral and the school lives out its life in that context. Thus, academic excellence and scholarship take their place alongside the school’s commitment to physical and cultural endeavour. Sport is strong, with a number of boys’ and girls’ teams at national level. Music and drama are outstanding, both having the finest traditions and producing performances of the highest standards. King’s Week, the school’s own Festival of Creative and Performing Arts, offers well over 100 events and attracts thousands of visitors each summer.
The curriculum at King’s is based upon strong academic roots. It emphasises and relies upon what is best in traditional school education: scholarly excellence, supported by a caring pastoral and tutorial system, and a wide-ranging co-curricular programme. The curriculum is continually adapting and reacting to the changing demands of modern education: new subjects are added, new teaching techniques adopted, and there is an increasing awareness of the need to provide programmes of study that match individual needs and skills. The school does not gauge its success by exam results alone but by broader measures of educational attainment and personal development, helping pupils to achieve their potential and equipping them to play an active and responsible role in society as young adults.
Our family of schools comprises The King’s School, Canterbury (KSC), The Junior King’s School (JKS), and the International College, all in Canterbury, with an international school in Shenzhen opened in September 2019. At KSC there are over 860 pupils, split 50-50 boys-girls, of whom about 80% are boarders. There are six boys’ boarding houses, seven girls’ boarding houses and three mixed day houses. Junior King’s occupies a fine rural site on the banks of the River Stour, in Sturry, two miles from Canterbury. There are over 350 pupils at Junior King’s of whom 20% are boarders.
The King’s School occupies various sites around the Cathedral and its precincts. Many teaching departments and the majority of houses are in the beautiful ancient buildings around Green Court and Mint Yard on the north side of the Cathedral. To the east of the Cathedral the St Augustine’s Abbey site is home to five boarding houses, a medieval refectory, and the magnificent neo-Gothic school library containing over 30,000 items. There are two major sites for sport: Birley’s, and the Recreation Centre, both within walking distance of the school, with rowing at Westbere Lakes in Sturry. The King’s School Malthouse Theatre opened in April 2019 with a 350-seat auditorium, studios, teaching, dance and rehearsal spaces.
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