Head of Business
Cheltenham College
Gloucestershire
- Expired
- Salary:
- College has its own competitive salary scale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 23 February 2025
Job overview
The Appointment
A well-qualified and experienced teacher is required to lead this thriving department and popular subject. This is a strategic role that would suit an ambitious teacher wishing to move onto a senior management position in due course. The appointee will have the scope to review and continue implementing the department’s strategic development plan and to contribute to the wider academic and intellectual development of the College as a whole.
The Head of Business can expect to teach a reduced timetable.
The candidate / Personal attributes
In order to be successful in this role, you will need to possess the following skills and attributes:
- Outstanding teaching skills, including the ability to teach your specialism to A Level
- Ability to inspire a delight in the subject
- Demonstrate an excellent work ethic and a culture of high expectations, achievement and success amongst staff and pupils
- Vision, leadership and ability to manage development and change
- Excellent administrative and organisational abilities
- Outstanding communication skills
- The desire to contribute to College’s rich co-curricular programme
The School
Cheltenham College is a thriving community, with over 1100 pupils from the Prep and Senior Schools combined, cared for by 600 support and academic staff. We have high-class facilities for academic development, boarding, sport, music and drama, as well as a truly awe-inspiring chapel. We are a 24/7 operation, working a six-day week with Saturday school.
As staff, we enjoy the very wide range of activities that our pupils enjoy, with access to wonderful sports facilities for you and your family, a beautiful Common room, Library, and full IT provision.
College enjoys a thriving Common Room which offers a staff bar, regular social events and a supportive and collegiate atmosphere. Colleagues are generous in their support of new staff members and driven by a determination to ensure the very best outcomes for their students and colleagues.
Whilst we may seem a large organisation, we operate very much as a close community with a family feel.
The Department
The Department, which consists of four members of staff, is characterised by a real sense of confidence, enthusiasm and enjoyment. The purpose of the subject is to understand how individuals and organisations function and the effects they have on the world around us. To bring the subject to life, our starting point for studying this subject at College is always reality rather than textbooks. This approach enables pupils to engage with, relate to and see the relevance of what they are studying.
There exist numerous conflicting opinions about how the economy and business function and should be governed. No ‘right’ stance is ever promoted at College and mainstream views in both subjects are continually challenged. We encourage pupils to test different theories and perspectives for themselves and make their own judgements.
The department is full of relevant, real-world expertise, gained from working in commercial organisations across the globe. Our expertise allows for the provision of wider opportunities for pupils, such as the department’s bespoke and nationally renowned Mini-MBA programme, as well as subject-related trips in the UK and abroad.
Benefits include
- College offers a defined contribution Workplace Pension Plan plus a Flexible Benefits Pot. The scheme offered is through APTIS: Aviva Pensions Trust for Independent Schools and includes a generous College contribution.
- Permanent members of staff are entitled to a substantial reduction in fees for their children.
- Members of staff may use the College sports facilities (at staff allocated times).
- Subsidised health scheme membership (Benenden).
- Discounts and offers for College staff from local businesses and retailers.
How to apply
To apply, please forward a completed application form, together with covering letter, electronically, to: recruitment@cheltenhamcollege.org
Closing date for applications is: Sunday, 23 February 2025
Interviews are likely to be held on: Friday, 28th February 2025
Cheltenham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its recruitment and selection of job applicants and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from suitably qualified individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. We encourage all candidates to ensure that College is aware of your particular requirements should you be invited to interview.
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About Cheltenham College
One of the country’s leading coeducational independent schools for both day and boarding pupils, Cheltenham College offers outstanding all round education for pupils from 3 to 18.
While the Senior School (13 – 18) enjoys its beautiful setting and impressive grounds on Cheltenham’s Bath Road, the adjacent Preparatory School ( 3-13) occupies over 15 acres of woodland splendour, with its own lake and numerous sports fields. The youngest children (3-7) enter the wonderfully vibrant pre-prep department called Kingfishers, which has its own cottage and classrooms within the school.
From the age of 3 right through to 18, pupils are immersed into a community that is not only full to the brim of opportunities but importantly, one that is warm, friendly and utterly inclusive. Pastoral care across both schools is consistently highlighted by parents as excellent and the College takes great pride in treating each and every child as an individual. Children therefore develop not only as learners but as independent, confident and responsible young people with a great many talents and skills. They have confidence to question, to challenge, to think.
The breadth of Cheltenham College’s amenities is reflected in the diversity of activities and clubs; the Preparatory School alone offers over 40 clubs, societies and sports. In the Senior School, no pupil can fail to be tempted by the numerous outdoor pursuits, expeditions, community service activities or Humanitarian Aid projects. Around 30 clubs operate weekly in the Senior School, including shooting, eco ventures, pottery and film-making.
A vast number of sports teams are nationally reputed and every year a substantial number of pupils are chosen to represent England. Music also plays a vital part in school life, with pupils able to learn just about every orchestral instrument imaginable as well as participating in numerous choirs, bands and ensembles. Both schools stage several plays a year, from whole school productions to year group performances, and the art and design work (often on display in Thirlestaine House, the College’s very own 19th century mansion and gallery) is quite literally breathtaking.
Crucially, this focus on balanced education also ensures that Cheltenham College gets the very best out of its pupils academically. In the Preparatory School, there is a 100% Common Entrance pass rate and many pupils gain Senior School scholarships. In College, the more stretching iGCSE is offered in Maths, English Literature, Science, History and Geography and over 95% of school leavers go on to their first choice university.
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