Executive Head
King's College School Cascais
Portugal
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 1 February 2022
Job overview
This is a rare and outstanding opportunity to join the Inspired group and lead King’s College School, as it opens its doors in Cascais, Portugal. A brand-new premium school, King’s will harness the 50-year heritage of academic excellence instilled from the King’s College Schools group with the global and market-leading best practices of Inspired education.
King’s College School, Cascais will open in the primary phase in September 2022, initially offering places to children between the ages of 1-13 years old. From September 2023, the School will expand to offer the full world-renowned Cambridge curriculum for pupils aged 11- 16 years. As students progress through the School, the provision will be extended to deliver the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) in Years 12 & 13. The School will ultimately cater to over 1,200 students from 1-18 years old and will accommodate up to 50 boarders aged 13-18 years.
The Executive Head and their team will carefully develop and bring into reality a compelling contemporary vision for the School, based on an understanding of Inspired’s ethos and the needs of the local market. Inspired is a leading global, premium schools group designed to inspire students to achieve their maximum potential in a nurturing, and progressive academic environment. Inspired educates over 50,000 students across an international network of over 70 schools on five continents. The successful candidate must have the desire to work as part of a regional team, and to build a close relationship with the Inspired Board and regional family of schools.
The ideal Executive Head will have an entrepreneurial attitude and a hands-on approach to growing the School successfully, with an exceptional curriculum, extensive co-curricular programme, and an excellent staff body in place. S/he will possess adaptability and resilience, intellect, ambition, and a global perspective. First-class communication skills, with the gravitas to act as an ambassador to a range of audiences, are crucial and will be complemented by commercial acumen and personal drive and ambition. Applications are particularly encouraged from candidates with experience of founding and growing schools from inception.
Inspired has engaged the services of Odgers Berndtson to assist with the recruitment of the Executive Head. A full candidate brief is available from www.odgers.com/84885
Letters of application and CVs should be sent by the closing date, Tuesday 1 February 2022.
King’s College School, Cascais and Inspired are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
About King's College School Cascais
- King's College School Cascais
- Rua Cesario Verde 395, Pampilheira, Cascais
- Lisbon
- 2750-657
- Portugal
Our School is part of the Inspired Education Group
Inspired Education is the leading global group of premium schools, with over 80 premium private schools spanning six continents providing premium education to over 70,000 students ensuring they all receive a first-class learning experience from Kindergarten to Year 13.
We offer you the chance to work/live in an exciting new location, collaborate with passionate educators, develop your skills, and grow in a role that inspires you.
Please visit our careers site for further information and to see our latest opportunities - https://careers.inspirededu.com/
About King's College School, Cascais
King’s College School, one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the world, is opening its doors in Cascais, Portugal. The school comes with a 50-year heritage of academic excellence instilled from the King’s College schools group.
King‘s College School, Cascais is an international school offering a truly global education and is the only school in Lisbon to offer the full world-renowned Cambridge curriculum up until Year 11 (age 16) and then culminate with the International Baccalaureate Diploma programme in Years 12 & 13 (age 16-18).
The school will offer the highest quality modern facilities, ensuring that students benefit from a learning environment that has been designed for how students learn in the modern day. Facilities include football pitches, tennis courts, padel courts as well as dance, drama, and art studios.
King’s College School joins other King’s Group schools in Spain, Panama, Latvia and soon The Bahamas and Egypt. King’s Group schools have provided children with a rigorous and broad British and international education since 1969 with a focus on developing thoughtful and knowledgeable young people. The success of the group comes from recruiting teachers with the skills and experience to turn the curriculum into dynamic lessons that ignite the imagination.
The King’s belief that child-centred, exploratory learning teaches students to think, question and explore new ideas, complements lnspired’s forward-thinking learning approach.
About Inspired
Inspired students benefit from the unique global connectivity of premium schools that
are anchored in their local communities.
The individuality of every student is unlocked through a holistic curriculum focused on the three pillars - Academics, Sport and Performing Arts, to ensure every student achieves their full potential.
Through this global approach, we aim to inspire and prepare students to be global citizens, ready to seize their exciting futures and truly flourish with the confidence and attitude needed to thrive in their ever-changing world.
Inspired schools are among the highest performing in the world, most are non-selective and are proud to add considerable value to every student. These Schools regularly achieve highly in league table rankings across the world.
Most importantly, Inspired students not only attain outstanding academic results but also graduate to some of the best universities and careers in the world.
The exciting combination of Inspired’s global standings and the King’s College group’s
50+ year history of academic excellence enables students to consistently graduate with exceptional results, with over 90% going on to their first-choice university.
The Inspired learning approach
Our approach is defined by supportive academic excellence and the exploration of life skills to develop students’ self-confidence and self-assurance.
We do this by delivering a focus on the individual and offering a broad curriculum based on the three pillars. Academics are at the centre of our approach but are also complemented equally by Performing Arts and Sport. This rich curriculum ensures that every student can discover their passions and develop their skills. Students are encouraged and supported to excel across all areas, even those they find more difficult.
Our Three Pillar Approach
1. Academics
Central to all our schools, our core of academia teaches our students critical and lateral thinking to inform the understanding and application of a wide variety of disciplines. At King’s College School, we follow the British Curriculum to Year 11 and then the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme to Year 13.
2. Sport
Inspired’s sporting pillar stands for health, wellbeing, fun, motivation, self-discipline,
and self-esteem. Whether it’s about involving students in team sports or introducing them to individual pursuits, we aim to provide an athletics programme to suit every student. King’s College School students can get involved in a broad range of sporting pursuits including football, basketball, cricket, swimming, and tennis.
While some students in each school go on to achieve national and international honours, all students benefit from the fitness, enjoyment, and life-long interest that sport can spark. The physical exercise involved also contributes to the mental alertness necessary for successful study.
3. Performing Arts
The arts help to instil confidence and selfassurance within our students to nurture and
develop their interests for life. This confidence is derived from performance, the appreciation of the arts as fundamental to the human experience, and a creative approach to all that our students do.
From drama lessons and public speaking to instrumental music lessons and visual arts, King’s College School students get to experience it all as part of the core curriculum.
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