Founding Head of Junior School
Wellington College International Bangkok (WCIB)
Thailand
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- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- January 2018
- Apply by:
- 20 June 2017
Job overview
Founding Head of Junior School (FS to Year 6)
Wellington College International Bangkok
Wellington College International Bangkok opens its doors in September 2018. For January 2018 we are looking for an outstanding candidate to become our first Head of Junior School.
The School
Wellington College International Bangkok in Thailand opens in August 2018 and is planned to grow to accommodate up to 1,500 boys and girls aged 2-18 years. The school’s facilities have been designed to be world-class. The design and appearance is modern whilst retaining some distinctive features of Wellington College, Berkshire and aspects which represent the local Thai culture. The building will be set amidst one of the largest and most attractive campuses in the world. The school will be located in Krungthep Kreetha, an area midway between Bangkok city and Bangkok International Airport, on part of the land of Unico Grande Golf Course.
In the first year of operation, the Junior School (Pre-Nursery to Year 6) will open. The Senior School will follow in 2019. WCIB aims to be the leading and most inspirational education provider in Thailand. In achieving this aim, it will be actively building upon the long and successful history of Wellington College in the UK, comparing favourably with the very best schools anywhere around the globe, with a reputation centred on a breadth of excellence, both in provision and achievement.
The Candidate
The successful candidate will be suitably experienced, with UK teaching qualifications, knowledge of UK independent and high-quality international education, a postgraduate degree in an education-related field and further leadership certification. Founding a school is a hugely rewarding experience - and never dull - but also very challenging: resilience, problem-solving skills, flexibility and groundbreaking vision are essential.
Application
Interested candidates should, in the first instance, send a full, up-to-date CV, accompanied by a letter of application and details of three professional referees (of whom one must be the current or most recent employer) by email to hr@wellingtoncollege.in.th . Please note that we will conduct initial interviews on a rolling basis: early application is advised. Longlisted candidates will be interviewed via Skype; those on the shortlist will be invited to Thailand for final interviews, which will take place over the period 24-26 June, 2017.
Safer Recruitment
WCIB is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. All applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
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About Wellington College International Bangkok (WCIB)
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- Wellington College International Bangkok (WCIB)
- 18 Krungthep Kreetha Road, Saphan Sung District
- Bangkok
- 10250
- Thailand
Wellington College Bangkok
Wellington College Bangkok’s mission is to deliver the most exceptional international education in Thailand—and across the region. We are proud and thrilled to be able to provide a very important piece in the jigsaw of Bangkok’s growing prominence as a Southeast Asian hub, and we are delighted to welcome families of all nationalities.
Our School is purpose-built on an expansive greenfield campus. The buildings, designed by world-class architects, are airy and modern yet retain echoes of the grandeur of the past. Our sports provision includes a full Olympic-size 50-metre pool, a huge gymnasium, a 400-metre track, sports pitches, basketball and tennis courts, indoor and outdoor golf facilities. Our fully-equipped classrooms, Learning Studios, Reading Rooms, Harkness rooms, Faculty Salons, our extraordinary 600-seat Theatre, our stylish Copenhagen Café (named after the Duke of Wellington’s favourite horse), our equally chic Café 1815, as well as the recreation areas—the green of the trees and the grass, the blue of the water—all play their part in making the experience of being at Wellington unique, exciting and, on top of that, fun.
The global family of Wellington Colleges—in the UK, China, here in Thailand, and shortly in India—has a very strong reputation for the development of academic excellence, international-mindedness, leadership, responsibility, service to others, outstanding pastoral provision and an exceptionally rich programme of co-curricular activities.
Our values grow from those of our close partner school, the world-renowned Wellington College in Berkshire. It is a fundamental principle that every child can thrive when provided with outstanding, wide-ranging and open-ended opportunities to develop, explore and learn. Our students’ individual responses to these opportunities, shepherded by some of the best teachers in the world and supported by our uniquely dedicated pastoral teams, can set them on the path to extraordinary academic achievement—which, at Wellington, routinely goes hand-in-hand with excellence in performing and visual arts, sport and service to others. This is what it means for the whole child to flourish.
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