Head of Art and Design
Malvern St James
Worcestershire
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 22 April 2024
Job overview
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Head of Department has responsibility for leading their department throughout the School, in fostering a love of the subject at every level and promoting it within the School. They will ensure high standards of teaching and learning, promote high achievement, efficient use of resources and a creative development of the curriculum.
The Head of Art and Design will be an experienced and well-qualified graduate who has a genuine passion for and commitment to promoting a love of Art and Design. The successful candidate will develop a strategic vision for the teaching and learning of Art and Design at Senior level and will also support and collaborate with the Prep Department, where the department also delivers Art and DT lessons between Years 3-6.
The post holder will be an inspiring role model to pupils who believes and can demonstrate that with excellent teaching and relevant support, all girls can go beyond any limits they may place on themselves. This is a key appointment that will help to shape the School’s wider curriculum offer: the successful candidate will have significant responsibilities in supporting the School’s Co-curricular provision to ensure excellent opportunities and support for every pupil’s enjoyment, development and success.
We require someone who can provide inspirational and innovative leadership to an energetic and committed department and who has clear ideas about developing girls’ learning and achieving strong results at all levels including examination level. Excellent organisational, management and interpersonal skills are essential as is the ability to build effective relationships and inspire confidence with pupils across the school, their parents, the department and the wider local community to be effective in role. They should have a strong track record in teaching Art and Design up to A level and will lead by example.
For a more detailed job description and person specification please refer the the Head of Art and Design pdf
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About Malvern St James
Malvern St James Girls’ School is set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty at the foot of the Malvern Hills and is a leading independent boarding and day school for girls aged 3-18. Our values today reflect those of our founding schools, set up in the nineteenth century by pioneering proponents of women’s education. In this inspirational setting, MSJ continues a fine heritage of academic rigour, outstanding enrichment and leadership opportunities, and preparing girls for rewarding careers and lives beyond school.
MSJ is an exceptional place for learning and living. Every girl matters to us, and our size (at around 450 pupils) means that we can offer an individually tailored education. Our focus is on inspiring teaching to deliver excellent academic results; and equally on encouraging intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, considered risk-taking and collaboration that universities and employers will value. Our enrichment programme is as long as it is broad, and has something to fire the imagination of every individual: clubs for budding engineers and scientists, extra-curricular languages, drama, music, Leiths, journalism, photography, sport of every kind, Young Enterprise, Debating and Model United Nations … to name but a few.
Life at MSJ is underpinned by first class pastoral support which makes us a happy and friendly community, relaxed yet purposeful, with a real sense of family. When girls reach the end of their time here, they are thoroughly prepared to embrace life’s challenges. The diverse list of graduate courses at the most prestigious institutions and the competitive career paths that girls go on to is testament to MSJ’s culture of ambition and achievement. Our alumnae network helps our community to forge valuable links for life.
As a school we have a roughly equal number of day girls and boarders, allowing us to offer the best of both worlds and a very flexible boarding programme. We have full, weekly and flexi boarding options, designed to meet the needs of modern family lives. Our position in the town of Great Malvern, situated in the heart of England, means we benefit from excellent transport links and cultural opportunities all around the UK, including a direct train service from London.
Our girls work hard but have fun on the way, making lifelong friends and memories. Please do come and see for yourselves what makes MSJ tick and meet our happy, poised and confident girls and young women, who are free to be themselves and find the things which will instigate a life-long passion for learning.
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