Head of Russian
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Westminster School
Westminster
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 21 January 2021
Job overview
A suitably-qualified Russian specialist is required to lead the Russian Department at Westminster School.
You will teach Russian throughout the School and will be responsible for the administration and management of the Russian Department, which will include running the day-to-day business of the Department, managing the Department’s budget, chairing departmental meetings and providing the leadership and direction to foster interest in and enthusiasm for the subject.
There is a steady interest in reading Russian at Westminster School and the Department has enjoyed considerable success at Oxford entrance in particular, while also providing institutions such as Cambridge, UCL and US universities with able students.
The ideal candidate should be confident with instructing native or near-native speakers. The ability to offer a second language is desirable but not essential.
Westminster is one of the UK’s leading academic institutions and is the only ancient London school to occupy its original site. Situated close to Parliament and Westminster Abbey, together with the stimulating diversity of the South Bank and West End, the School has a special atmosphere.
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The closing date for applications is Thursday 21 January 2021.
Interviews for short-listed candidates will take place on Friday 29 January 2021.
Please note that recruitment for this post will be conducted remotely.
Westminster School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including with past employers and the DBS.
The School is a Registered Charity (no 312728).
About Westminster School
Westminster School is the perfect environment for happy and purposeful pupils. Pupils are intellectually, socially, ethically and politically engaged and our aim is to ensure that their enthusiasm for learning is developed further, allowing them to take full advantage of the opportunities presented to them in the future.
While the School is one of the foremost centres of academic excellence in the country, its commitment to academic life does not make it a hothouse for passing examinations. Pupils’ success at examinations and entry to leading universities is instead a result of their enjoyment of academic enquiry, debate and search for explanation, well beyond published syllabuses. It is important also that pupils have the freedom to lead on projects outside of the classroom and embrace a whole range of extra-curricular activities and interests. A host of pupil-led Societies take place every week at the School and pupils can choose to study an additional language, play an instrument or two, volunteer in the local community, row along the Thames, take part in plays and musicals, and much more.
The School’s ethos resides in the enduring values of the liberal tradition reflected in the 1560 Charter of Westminster’s Elizabethan foundation, where it is stated that: ‘the youth which is growing to manhood, as tender shoots in the wood of our state, shall be liberally instructed in good books to the greater honour of the state’. Whilst academic and cultural attainments are highly prized at Westminster, the School is fully committed also to nurture each pupil’s spiritual, moral, emotional and physical development and wellbeing – with a particular emphasis on drawing out individual talent wherever it lies – and to prepare young people for fulfilled private and public lives.’
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