Director of Hockey
Abingdon School
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- £35,182 per annum (including special responsibility allowance)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 3 October 2022
Job overview
Abingdon School is seeking to appoint a highly committed, enthusiastic and experienced coach, who has played hockey to a high standard, as the Director of Hockey. The Director of Hockey will be responsible for promoting and enhancing the Foundation’s Hockey Programme at all levels.
The post-holder will join a team of Directors of individual sports who work closely together to provide a well-balanced, aspirational and forward looking sporting programme with a consistent approach.
Abingdon Foundation benefits from first class sporting facilities and staff expertise which will enable an innovative and ambitious candidate to drive hockey to greater success.
The successful candidate should have experience of working with elite athletes and an understanding of player pathways at all levels of the game. The successful candidate will be expected to work Monday to Friday running daily games, including lunchtimes and after school sessions, as well as on Saturdays for fixtures and training.
The role is term time plus an additional four weeks in school holidays to organise and run sports camps and courses (e.g. for the public as part of courses marketed by Abingdon School Enterprises) and hockey pre-season training, trips and tours.
The start date for this position is as soon as possible.
Closing date: Monday 3 October 2022 (midday)
Interview date: Friday 14 October 2022
For further details and to apply please visit our recruitment portal:
https://vacanciesatabingdonschool.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/
Abingdon is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
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About Abingdon School
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A level 2023 - 90% grade A* to B
GCSE 2023 - 81% grade 9 to 7
Abingdon combines over 750 years of history and tradition with a modern outlook. It offers day and boarding with the senior school housing around 1070 students aged 11 to 18, of whom 360 are in the sixth form, and approximately 130 are boarders. There is also a preparatory school at Frilford, near Abingdon, for 215 students aged 4 - 13. The two establishments together form the Abingdon Foundation, an independent charity, governed according to a scheme approved by the Charity Commissioners. Full particulars can be found in the Independent Schools Year Book.
The School stands in beautiful grounds close to the centre of Abingdon, six miles south of Oxford. Day students are drawn from a region that includes the University and City of Oxford, a number of large scientific establishments such as those at Harwell and Culham, and a wide area of the Upper Thames Valley and the Berkshire Downs. A wider region supplies weekly boarders, and there is a thriving international community of full boarders.
Students are selected for entry by examination, and the curriculum is geared towards the academic pupil. The expectation is that the vast majority of students who enter the school proceed to university, with a significant number winning places at Oxford and Cambridge every year.
The School has developed considerably over the last half-century, and has benefitted from a major building programme, including a new arts centre and a multi-million pound sports centre. Recent additions include a superb science centre housing 21 teaching labs and a new sixth form centre, a library and art facilities which opened in 2018. Autumn 2020 saw the Computer Science and Business & Economics departments move into a purpose built new three-story building. New and refurbished boarding facilities as well as a flexible new dining pavilion were completed in Autumn 2023.
The strength of the teaching staff is seen as the key to Abingdon’s continuing success. The Head seeks recruits of the highest possible standard, with a powerful professional vision and who are prepared to exert themselves wholeheartedly for the benefit of their pupils and the School.
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