Headteacher

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).