Director of Sport
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Hurstpierpoint College
West Sussex
- Expired
- Salary:
- Highly competitive salary and benefits, including free, on-site accommodation
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 20 March 2025
Job overview
We are thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity to join Hurst as the Director of Sport to lead, innovate, and inspire excellence in our sporting programmes.
The Role
As the Director of Sport, you will provide inspiring leadership, management, and development of our Sports department. You will set the strategic vision for Sport in line with the Hurst Vision and Strategic Development Plan, creating a sporting programme that is attractive to pupils and taking overall responsibility for the quality of sporting performance throughout the Junior Prep, Senior Prep, and Senior School.
The Person
The successful candidate will:
- Be an ambitious and innovative leader with a passion for sports, and a commitment to promoting physical activity and wellness
- Have previous experience of the leadership and management of a large sports department, with a proven track record of success in developing and inspiring managers.
- Possess a strategic mindset with the ability to envision and implement initiatives across the entire school and a diverse range of sports
What we offer in return:
- A highly competitive salary and benefits, including membership of one of the colleges generous contributory pension schemes with either: The Teachers Pension Scheme, APTIS or TPT.
- The opportunity of free, onsite accommodation is offered with this role
- Free dining and refreshment facilities during term time.
- Contributory BUPA Health Insurance.
- Extensive professional development programmes, together with career opportunities across the College and Hurst Education Trust
- Comprehensive health and wellbeing offering including an on-site mind clinic, wellbeing MOTs, Employee Assistance Programme and Chaplaincy
- Free use of extensive sports and leisure facilities
- Calendar of staff social and sporting events
If you are excited by this role we encourage you to submit a timely application. The vacancy will close on Thursday 20th March and interviews held Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th March.
We look forward to receiving your application.
Hurstpierpoint College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including an online presence and adverse media review, checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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About Hurstpierpoint College
- Hurstpierpoint College
- College Lane, Hurstpierpoint, Hassocks
- West Sussex
- BN6 9JS
- United Kingdom
The College comprises a Sixth Form, Senior School, Senior Prep and Junior Prep with 1,300 pupils in all. Over half the pupils in the Senior School are boarders (weekly or flexi). Hurst is a significant medium-sized enterprise in Mid Sussex with around 480 employees and an annual turnover of £35 million pa.
What particularly strikes visitors to the College is the vibrant dynamic of our community. Situated within a 140- acre campus, surrounded by beautiful countryside, Hurst lies on the border of the South Downs National Park, close to the village of Hurstpierpoint in West Sussex.
This superb location is also just 20 minutes from the city and beaches of Brighton and Hove, whilst London train stations can be reached from Hassocks or Haywards Heath in under an hour. The central campus is thoughtfully laid out and planned with zones for the Academic, Co-Curricular and Pastoral areas of school life. These all lie at the centre of a superbly equipped broader campus.
Hurst has an excellent academic track record and the vast majority of pupils go on to Russell Group universities including Oxford, Cambridge, the various London Universities, as well as large numbers to Exeter, Bristol and Durham.
Founded in 1849 by Nathanial Woodard, Hurst is a Church of England College. The Christian ethos underpins College life but we are a diverse community; we welcome those of other faiths, or no faith, and pursue an inclusive approach in all that we do.
The College is a Co-Sponsor, together with the Diocese of Chichester, of the newly formed Hurst Education Trust, a local Multi Academy Trust. The Trust currently has four local primary schools, although it is envisaged it will grow to over time.
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