Head of Modern Languages
Harrow School
Harrow
- Expired
- Salary:
- Harrow has its own salary scale and many other benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2023
- Apply by:
- 10 October 2022
Job overview
The School seeks to appoint a full-time Head of Modern Languages for September 2023.
This post comes with a generous package including the following:
- Rent-free accommodation provided on the Hill.
- Health cover provided free of charge for you and at a reduced rate for any members of your immediate family that you may wish to add.
- Access to a generous education fund for any children you may have.
The successful applicant will:
- Have overall responsibility for the teaching and administration of Modern Languages at the School.
- Teach at all levels throughout the School.
- Lead the department in maintaining the highest academic standards, and develop best practices in modern languages teaching.
- Line manage six heads of languages and twenty-two other colleagues.
- Ensure the smooth running of the off-timetable languages programme.
- Lead and develop the department’s super-curricular provision; Organise and run overseas languages trips.
- Be a tutor in a Boarding House, supporting the House Master in the pastoral care of a group of boys.
- Contribute fully to the co-curriculum.
Applications are welcomed from candidates offering any of the languages taught at Harrow.
Please visit the School’s website at https://www.harrowschool.org.uk/contact/work-at-harrow
Or click on the 'Apply on School website' button for more detailed information about the role, and to complete an online application form.
Closing date: 9am, Monday 10 October 2022.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant must be willing to undergo child protection screening including checks with any past employer and the DBS.
About Harrow School
Harrow School is situated in Harrow on the Hill in north-west London. The School is located on a 324-acre estate which encompasses much of Harrow on the Hill and is one of the best-known schools in the world. Around 837 boys study at Harrow and live in the School’s 12 boarding houses. Employees particularly value the School’s beautiful green estate, the positive working environment, and good relationships with their colleagues.
Harrow School is an independent boarding secondary school for boys aged 13-18. It was established, by royal charter, in 1572 during the reign of Elizabeth I. It is operated as a Royal Charter Corporation, which is a charitable trust whose trustees are the school’s governors. The school licenses the Harrow name to a number of schools in Asia.
Head Master
Alastair Land
Values and vision
Harrow School believes that the success of students should not be measured purely by grades, but by their influence on the wider world.
The school believes that all organisations need strong and clearly expressed values to create identity, focus, unity and drive, and in order to answer the questions: “what do we belong to?”, “what’s important to us?”, "why do our collective efforts matter?”, and “what holds us together?”.
Harrow’s values of courage, honour, humility and fellowship aim to help the school to make decisions from day-to-day that mean members of its community behave and perform better. These four Values link closely to Harrow School’s Christian foundation, and the principles of “Godliness and good learning” established by its founder, John Lyon.
ISI report
“Pupils are high achievers in all areas of their academic lives. Their success owes much to the strong and supportive boarding community to which they all belong and which gives the encouragement to work hard and aim high, and the confidence to set themselves ambitious goals.”
“Pupils invariably work hard and utilise their strong motivation and desire to succeed, and this is one of the main drivers in their success. The strong progress they make, and their all-round excellent achievement is enabled by many innovative approaches and initiatives introduced by school leaders.”
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