Director of Sport
Roedean School
Brighton and Hove
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 25 February 2025
Job overview
Required from September 2025
Director of Sport
Roedean seeks an outstanding and visionary leader to take our Sports Department forward into the next exciting stage. This role demands a high level of expertise, leading a highly-motivated team, but this must also be complemented by an ability to view the department objectively, and be ready to manage change, where necessary, to build a sector-leading department, ready for the School’s 150th anniversary in 2035.
This is an outstanding opportunity for an individual with high aspirations, coupled with ambition for others. You will be an experienced specialist Teacher of PE but, most importantly, you will have the girls’ aspirations and welfare at the heart of your vision. A passion for all sports and a commitment to ensure that every student flourishes in this highly successful department should be at the very heart of everything you wish to achieve – every student, regardless of their sporting ability and enthusiasm, should be empowered, encouraged, and engaged.
Our stunning cliff-top location, between the English Channel and the South Downs, provides a wonderful location to play sport, but it also encourages the students to widen their horizons and aim high. The School’s founding ethos remains as strong today as it was in 1885, and this rich heritage permeates many aspects of school life. In sport, our key sports of Hockey, Netball and Cricket are complemented by strength in other areas, such as Swimming and Athletics.
The Sports Department supports broad participation in a range of disciplines, with A to F teams in Years 7 and 8, allowing every student the opportunity to represent Roedean. Students are also encouraged and supported to challenge themselves to excel, and, in 2022, a team of six students (from Years 8-12) successfully swam from Dover to France in a Cross-Channel Relay. In sport, as in many areas of school life, Roedean bucks the trend for what is often expected of girls.
In October 2024, Amber Anning, who won two Olympic Bronze medals in her debut Olympics in Paris, returned to Roedean to share her experiences with our students, and Helen and Kate Richardson-Walsh, who both won Gold in the Rio Olympics in 2016 are the School’s Sports Ambassadors. Roedean enjoys regional success in both Hockey and Netball, and this year, Roedean has again been named in the top 20 girls’ schools in The Cricketer.
Roedean is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
Please download an application pack from our website (www.roedean.co.uk/Vacancies) or contact Louisa Butler via vacancies@roedean.co.uk. Please note we do not accept CVs.
Closing date: 24 February 2025.
Due to the need to appoint quickly we reserve the right to interview and appoint at any time.
About Roedean School
Roedean is a mainstream, single-sex, independent school for girls aged 11-18. The School is situated to the east of Brighton, in a beautiful location on the South Downs overlooking the English Channel. There are 620 students on its roll. It is a selective school with termly fees, but scholarships and bursaries are available for girls going into Years 7, 9, and 12.
Headteacher
Niamh Green
Values and vision
The School was founded in 1885, and the founding sisters wanted to provide a “thorough, physical, intellectual, and moral” education. This ethos continues today, and Roedean provides a genuinely holistic education, in which all elements complement each other; this approach places a high value on all the experiences that happen beyond the classroom in sport, art, drama, music, and dance, as well as community outreach and partnerships.
The ‘Six Pillars’ of Roedean are to encourage healthy and active living, a strong academic foundation, an appreciation of sport, culture, and the arts, to build independence of thought and character, to build on skills and confidence, and to have moral and personal values.
ISI
“The school is highly successful in achieving its aims. All pupils, including those with SEND or EAL and the more able, achieve excellent results in external examinations. Pupils, including those in Sixth Form, make a high rate of progress in relation to the average for pupils of similar abilities. They have an exemplary attitude towards learning which contributes to their success. Pupils enjoy their lessons, working together well to attain high standards of learning.”
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