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North London Collegiate School

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Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2023
Apply by:
14 September 2022

Job overview

Head

The Governing Body of North London Collegiate School (NLCS) is delighted to invite applications for the role of Head from September 2023. Through the design and implementation of a revitalized strategy, the Head will ensure the School’s continued success as a leading academic girls’ school with a reputation for pioneering education and will lead the School through an exciting period in its development. 

NLCS educates over 1100 students aged 4 to 18 on a beautiful 30-acre site in Edgware, London. With a market-leading reputation for academic excellence, NLCS students enjoy an exceptional environment for learning through first-class teaching staff, exciting lessons and a broad and wide-ranging curriculum. Pastoral care is outstanding, and students thrive in a warm and welcoming community with a genuinely individualized approach. The School’s central mission is to provide an innovative and ambitious education to enable every student to excel in a dynamic and rapidly changing world, and NLCS is proud that its girls leave the School as accomplished, motivated, and self-driven individuals. 

NLCS is well catered for with superb facilities inside and outside of the classroom, and the next Head will have a significant impact upon the physical fabric of the School as it embarks on the new three-phase 20-year estates masterplan. The School is in a strong position financially, in part owing to the success of North London Collegiate School International Limited, which operates franchise schools in South Korea, Dubai and Singapore. 

This position presents the opportunity for an outstanding leader to make a real impact upon the future development of a well-established institution. It is an opportunity to ensure that NLCS exceeds its reputation as an institution of academic excellence for girls and that it continues to hold an unparalleled position within the London selective day school market and further afield.

The successful candidate will hold a personal and professional academic track record of the highest calibre and will have their own distinct educational ethos that they will bring to the School. They will possess a natural warmth with strong pastoral instincts and will be a convincing figurehead for the future of all-girls’ education. This person will be naturally outward-facing and forward-thinking with a robust, strategic mindset that will build upon the School’s existing successes whilst bringing to bear ambitious plans for the future. 

Further information on North London Collegiate School can be found via the website at www.nlcs.org.uk

A candidate brief including details of how to apply can be downloaded from www.odgers.com/86081.  

Application forms, CVs and covering letters should be submitted by the closing date of 9:00am BST on Wednesday 14th September.

North London Collegiate School is fully 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 (DBS).

Attached documents

About North London Collegiate School

North London Collegiate School is an independent all-through day school for girls, based in Edgware. Its motto translates from Latin as "in the hope of labour". There are 1,065 aged 4-18 on the school roll.

The school was founded by Frances Mary Buss at the family home in Camden in 1850. The current site was acquired in 1929, and the school was fully relocated in 1940. The main site is a country house built in the eighteenth century. Since 2011, North London Collegiate School has had a franchise school in South Korea.

Headmistress

Mrs Vicky Bingham

Values and vision

The school is proud of its tradition of producing independent and pioneering young women with the drive and confidence to make the most of opportunities and a difference in the world. North London Collegiate School combines academic excellence with a vibrant extracurricular life, an international outlook, excellent facilities and a warm community.

Pupils are shaped not just by the academic excellence of the teaching but by the spectacular environment in which they learn. As well as the beauty of the Old House, pupils and staff also experience and learn in the school’s expansive grounds and modern Performing Arts Centre.

ISI report

“The school successfully fulfils its aims to provide an ambitious academic education and to enable all pupils to recognise academic excellence. Pupils benefit from a broad and challenging curriculum and an outstanding range of extra-curricular activities, among which many are related to academic study.”

View North London Collegiate School’s latest ISI report 

https://www.nlcs.org.uk/about-nlcs/inspection-report

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