Head of Junior School at Haberdashers' Girls' School
Haberdashers' Girls' School
Hertfordshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2023
- Apply by:
- 20 February 2023
Job overview
About this Role
The Haberdashers’ Girls’ School, Elstree is seeking to appoint a new Head of the Junior School, to join the Girls’ School Senior Leadership Team and be responsible for leading the Junior School.
Haberdashers’ Girls’ Junior School is a thriving, over-subscribed junior school, which forms a core part of the all-through, 4 to 18, educational offering provided by the Girls’ School. The School currently has around 1,250 pupils, which includes 320 in the Junior School. The school is situated on a stunning 100-acre campus, which it shares with Haberdashers’ Boys’ School and the Junior School benefits from access to a huge range of facilities that are available to all girls who attend the school.
The Haberdashers’ Schools are part-way through a ten-year Joint Strategy 2020 – 2030, which lays out six clear priorities for the schools. This includes a drive towards greater collaboration between the schools, as well as ambitions around pedagogical practices. As Head of the Junior School, you will play a key role in helping the leadership of the two schools to deliver on these strategic priorities.
The successful applicant will have leadership and management experience, have been an outstanding practitioner, and bring a really strong understanding of the junior school educational landscape. Candidates will themselves be ambitious, but also collegiate as this is a role where much is done in recognition of the ‘greater good’. The Head of Junior School must be able to manage change effectively and be comfortable operating at both an operational and strategic level.
We warmly welcome informal, confidential conversations and questions. Please contact habselstree@minervasearch.com and for further information and the candidate pack please visit www.minervasearch.com/habselstree
To apply, please send a cover letter and CV to habselstree@minervasearch.com by no later than COB on Monday 20 February 2023.
Please note, candidates selected for interview will be asked to complete an application form as part of the interview process.
First interviews are scheduled for Thursday 9 March 2023 with final interviews week commencing 20 March 2023.
All applications received directly to the school will be forwarded to the the team at Minerva Search.
Safeguarding
Haberdashers’ Girls’ School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS record check.
Haberdashers' Girls’ School is committed to ensuring that applicants and employees from all sections of the community are treated equally and not discriminated against on the grounds of gender, colour, race, nationality, marital or civil partnership status, religion or belief, sexual orientation, disability or age.
About Haberdashers' Girls' School
Founded in 1875, Haberdashers' Girls' School is a leading independent day school for girls aged 4-18 and our academic results place us amongst the highest ranked schools in the UK. We provide a challenging, positive, stimulating and secure community in which our students enjoy working hard to fulfil their potential.
Enjoying a rural outlook in stunning 100-acre grounds but within easy reach of London, the students have the best of both worlds; regular trips into central London for art, drama and museum visits as well as access to nature and the environment, including our very own Forest School for younger pupils.
We are a happy, hardworking, well-focussed community drawn from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We celebrate our traditions as being part of the larger Habs’ family but we are also very proud of our ability to nurture our pupils and prepare them to be active citizens of a global 21st century, meeting the opportunities and challenges it will throw in their way.
We believe in the development of the whole person, whether it is excelling in music, sport and drama or simply enjoying participating in them. Charity fund-raising, working with the wider and global community and looking beyond our beautiful campus location are important aspects of the education provided here.
One of our unique features is the fact that we are based on the same campus as Habs Boys. This provides us with the best of both worlds; a single-sex education in a co-educational environment.
Our pupils leave to take up places at top universities with many happy memories of their time here, returning later in their careers to support another generation of Habs’ girls as they take their next steps into the wider world.
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