Director of Music
North London Collegiate School
Edgware, Middx
- Expired
- Salary:
- North London Collegiate School has its own salary scale, with the role being paid according to experience and qualifications
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 2 March 2018
Job overview
Director of Music
For September 2018
An enthusiastic, ambitious and committed musician is required from September 2018 to lead this highly successful department. We are looking to appoint a Director who is able to build on the already extraordinarily successful Music programme at NLCS, and help lead it into an exciting new phase.
The successful candidate will have a real passion for their subject and providing opportunities for students to participate in the vibrant music making scene at school, as well as developing elite musicians. They will be prepared to lead from the front and collaborate with highly talented colleagues. The role will be responsible for the strategic direction of the department, both academically and from an extra-curricular perspective.
Music is a central part of school life at NLCS, with large numbers of students performing in our many orchestras, ensembles and choirs, as well as taking lessons with peripatetic teachers. Students are ambitious and enjoy success across a diverse range of instruments and styles, performing to the highest standard inside and beyond school. A number of students are successful in gaining places at conservatoires each year.
North London Collegiate School offers both A Levels, Pre-U and the International Baccalaureate in the Sixth Form.
Founded by Frances Mary Buss in 1850, the North London Collegiate School is a highly academic girls’ independent day school which occupies a superb 30 acre site in Canons Park, North West London.
North London Collegiate School has its own salary scale, with the role being paid according to experience and qualifications.
Applicants are required to submit a covering letter and complete an application form which is available, along with job details, on our website: www.nlcs.org.uk or alternatively, you can request an application form and further details from the Deputy Heads’ PA: deputyheadspa@nlcs.org.uk
Closing date for applications: Friday, 2nd March at 12 noon. Interviews will be held on Wednesday 7th and Friday 9th March.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be asked to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service for an Enhanced Disclosure.
Attached documents
About North London Collegiate School
North London Collegiate School is an independent all-through day school for girls, based in Edgware. Its motto translates from Latin as "in the hope of labour". There are 1,065 aged 4-18 on the school roll.
The school was founded by Frances Mary Buss at the family home in Camden in 1850. The current site was acquired in 1929, and the school was fully relocated in 1940. The main site is a country house built in the eighteenth century. Since 2011, North London Collegiate School has had a franchise school in South Korea.
Headmistress
Mrs Vicky Bingham
Values and vision
The school is proud of its tradition of producing independent and pioneering young women with the drive and confidence to make the most of opportunities and a difference in the world. North London Collegiate School combines academic excellence with a vibrant extracurricular life, an international outlook, excellent facilities and a warm community.
Pupils are shaped not just by the academic excellence of the teaching but by the spectacular environment in which they learn. As well as the beauty of the Old House, pupils and staff also experience and learn in the school’s expansive grounds and modern Performing Arts Centre.
ISI report
“The school successfully fulfils its aims to provide an ambitious academic education and to enable all pupils to recognise academic excellence. Pupils benefit from a broad and challenging curriculum and an outstanding range of extra-curricular activities, among which many are related to academic study.”
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