Director of Operations (Rugby School Japan)
Rugby School Japan
Kashiwanoha, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
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- Salary:
- Internationally competitive, includes benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Apply by:
- 11 April 2023
Job overview
The Rugby School Group’s second international sister school opens in Japan in September 2023. Rugby School Japan will be a day and boarding school for 750 students aged 11 to 18 and is now under construction at Kashiwanoha in Chiba Prefecture, 30 minutes by train from central Tokyo. It will offer the full Rugby experience focusing upon the development of the whole person. Students will follow the Rugby curriculum, leading to IGCSE and A-level studies, and aspire to accessing the world’s leading universities.
The Founding Principal of Rugby School Japan wishes to appoint a dynamic and inspirational Director of Operations to commence duties in Japan from May 2023 or as soon as possible, ahead of the school opening in September 2023.
Rugby School
Founded by Royal Charter in 1567 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Rugby is one of the world’s most famous boarding schools. Today, it educates 850 students aged 13 to 18 and 360 boys and girls in its Prep school. Described by Tatler as ‘a school at the top of its game’, Rugby’s students achieve outstanding GCSE and A-level results within an educational environment where the whole person is the whole point.
The cornerstone of a Rugby education is its focus upon the importance of an all-round education in the tradition of its greatest Head Master, Dr Thomas Arnold (1828-42), who transformed British education in Victorian England and developed the model that many other schools have since adopted. He recognised, as Rugby continues to do today, that education should address the formation of character, going beyond an understanding of learning as simply the acquisition of knowledge. In the words of the current Executive Head Master of the Rugby School Group, Peter Green: “Our goals are to foster academic excellence, to nurture individual talents, and to equip our boys and girls with the tools to maximise their individual learning. Critical thinking, memory skills, goal setting and the use of new technology are blended with reflection, self-awareness and stillness. And through service we aim to form young people who can contribute intelligently and effectively to the welfare of society. In other words, the whole person is the whole point.”
Rugby’s House structure has been central to its strong sense of community for almost 200 years. Its 15 Houses, led by their Housemasters and Housemistresses, together with a team of Tutors, each have their own unique character and offer a true home away from home.
Throughout its 455-year history, Rugby has produced Prime Ministers of European nations, an Archbishop of Canterbury and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Rugbeians have contributed to stage and screen, to politics, the arts, philosophy, medicine and public life. They have upheld justice as judges and lawmakers, helped to run governments, schools and universities, founded businesses and won Olympic gold medals. During a game of football at the School in 1823, Rugby student William Webb Ellis caught the ball and, ‘with a fine disregard for the rules…took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the rugby game’. In 2023, Rugby will mark the Bicentenary of the game.
The Rugby School Group is now committed to developing a worldwide family of schools, shaped by Rugby’s distinctive educational ethos, offering girls and boys around the world the opportunity to benefit from a Rugby education. In 2017, its 450th year, Rugby’s first international sister school opened in Thailand on a striking 80-acre campus outside Bangkok and now educates 850 students.
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About Rugby School Japan
Rugby School Japan opened in Kashiwanoha (“Oak Leaf”) Smart City, Chiba Prefecture (Greater Tokyo), in September 2023, championing a new era of British international education in Japan. It is Rugby’s second international sister school. The School is a co-educational day and boarding school based on a campus within walking distance of a baseball stadium, football pitch, lake and running track in Kashiwanoha Park.
Rugby School Japan is situated in an urban campus in Tokyo, occupied by two of the best universities in Japan: Chiba University and Tokyo University.
Tokyo is one of the largest metropolises in Asia, and Rugby School Japan is the first of the British Public Schools to be established in the city.
Rugby School Japan shares Rugby’s ethos of ‘the whole person, the whole point’. The School believes in taking education beyond the classroom and nurturing the whole person – in mind, body and spirit – to give students a holistic sense of self and to enable them to achieve in all areas of life. Rugby School Japan aims to become a benchmark for British education worldwide.
Rugby School
Rugby School is a co-educational boarding and day school situated in the English county of Warwickshire. Founded in 1567, it is one of the original ten English public schools defined by the Public Schools Act 1868. Today, the School has 850 students aged 13 to 18 housed in 15 houses, 13 of which are for boarders and 300 students aged 3 to 13 at its Prep school, Bilton Grange. In 2019, Rugby achieved record results at GCSE and A-level, and has been described by Tatler as ‘a school at the top of its game’. Rugby has produced Prime Ministers of European nations, an Archbishop of Canterbury, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Rugbeians have contributed to stage and screen, to politics, the arts, philosophy, medicine and public life. They have upheld justice as judges and law makers; helped run governments, schools, universities; founded businesses; and won Olympic gold medals. In 1823, it is said that, during a game of football at the School, Rugby student William Webb Ellis caught the ball and ‘with a fine disregard for the rules… took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the rugby game’.
Rugby’s greatest Head Master, Dr Thomas Arnold (1828-42), transformed British education and formed the model that many other schools have since adopted. He recognised a modern concern – that education should address the formation of character, going beyond an understanding of learning as simply the acquisition of knowledge. Towards the end of the 20th century, the boys’ school once favoured by England’s monarchs became thoroughly co-educational. In 1975, three girls were admitted into the sixth form, and in 1992 the first 13-year-old girls arrived. The School is now almost equally populated by boys and girls. Rugby is national and international in outlook and recruitment, with boys and girls from all over the UK and 10% from overseas. As widening access to Rugby remains central to the School’s aims, the Arnold Foundation for Rugby School was set up in 2003 to fund places for students who stand to gain the most from a boarding school education. The opening of Rugby School Japan is the next step in this rich history, as Rugby proudly takes its educational philosophy international to make a difference across the world.
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