Founding Head
King's College School, The Bahamas
Bahamas
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 15 May 2021
Job overview
This is a rare and outstanding opportunity to assume the leadership of King’s College School, The Bahamas, a brand-new premium school opened by Inspired education. With the school opening in September 2022 and initially catering to 350 students aged 3-14, and potentially expanding to senior school in due course, the Founding Head will develop and bring into reality a compelling vision for a school that will offer an academically rigorous education allowing students to successfully transfer to other Inspired schools around the world. King’s College School, The Bahamas will benefit from significant investment to create a world-class campus drawing on the strength and the expertise of one of the world’s largest and fastest growing school groups.
For the Founding Head, this will be a career-defining leadership challenge. The founding team will carefully shape an educational offer based on an understanding of Inspired’s ethos and the needs of the local market. The successful candidate will combine a track record of highly successful leadership and a passion for broad and rigorous education. He or she must have the desire to work as part of a regional team, and to build a close relationship with the Regional CEO, his team, and the regional family of schools.
The ideal Founding Head will have an entrepreneurial attitude and a hands-on approach to opening the school successfully, with an exceptional curriculum, extensive co-curricular programme, and an excellent founding staff body in place. S/he will possess adaptability and resilience, intellect, conviction, and an international perspective. First-class communication skills with the gravitas to act as a credible ambassador to a range of audiences is crucial and will be complemented by commercial acumen and personal drive. Applications are encouraged from candidates based in leading U.K. independent preparatory and junior schools and those in top British international schools globally.
Inspired has engaged the services of Odgers Berndtson to assist with the recruitment of a Founding Head. A full candidate brief is available from www.odgers.com/82540
Letters of application and CVs should be sent by the closing date, Friday 14 May.
King’s College School, The Bahamas 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.
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About King's College School, The Bahamas
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Our School is part of the Inspired Education Group
Inspired Education is the leading global group of premium schools, with over 110 premium private schools spanning six continents providing premium education to over 80,000 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 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 self assurance 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.
The Bahamas
The Bahamas is a coral-based archipelago consisting of around 700 islands and islets, and more than 2,000 cays (coral reefs) spread over 100,000 square miles in the Atlantic Ocean.
Since its independence in 1973, The Bahamas has become one of the richest countries in the Americas due to its booming tourism and finance industries.
The country is blessed with immense natural beauty and a wonderful tropical climate, and temperatures rarely drop below 21 degrees Celsius. The Bahamas is politically stable, and the economy has a very competitive tax regime.
King’s College School, The Bahamas will be based on the Western Road in Nassau, New Providence. This is the most populous island in The Bahamas containing more than 70% of the total population. Nassau is the island’s capital – it’s the centre of administration, commerce, education, law, and media.
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