Head of School
Berlin Bilingual School
Germany
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- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st August 2017
- Apply by:
- 10 June 2017
Job overview
A dynamic and growing school in the heart of Europe’s most vibrant city is looking for a new Head. The Berlin Bilingual School is a thriving independent German/English primary and secondary school with 370 students, offering a general course of education in central Berlin. We believe in an inclusive and innovative approach to providing education to mixed-age groups, and being open to people of all income levels. Our school also enjoys a high level of parental involvement. For the vacancy, the school invites applications from charismatic, qualified individuals with leadership experience who readily accept new challenges with vigour, and strive to develop the school in line with its mission statement.
Applicants will be interviewed (by skype or phone) in the week 12-16th June 2017. Short-listed candidates will be required to travel to Berlin for an interview on 29th or 30th June 2017.
Main Responsibilities
- Assuming overall responsibility for educational matters at primary and secondary school (up to and including Abitur level), in close cooperation with the management team
- Managing staff, hiring teachers, and supporting newly employed staff
- Representing and developing the school in line with the mission statement (for more information, visit: www.berlin-bilingual-school.de)
- Responsibility for communication within the school community
- Team building and professional development of the teachers
- Creating and coordinating teaching schedules and curricula as part of the framework directive for Berlin’s schools, the International Primary Curriculum (IPC), and the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (I/GCSE)
- Occasionally teaching classes and standing in for teachers in the primary and secondary school
- Working closely with the Hort management team.
Qualifications
- Management and leadership experience, including team building and school organization
- Considerable teaching experience, preferably with mixed-age groups
- Bilingual (German/English)
- Educational experience in an international setting
- Familiarity with innovative, mixed-age, inclusive and interdisciplinary teaching concepts
- Second State Examination (Zweites Staatsexamen), or comparable foreign degree
The potential candidate must submit a recent certificate of good conduct (erweitertes polizeiliches Führungszeugnis/DBS disclosure or equivalent) before the hiring process can be completed. Preference will be given to candidates with disabilities if all qualifications are otherwise equal.
Contact Person
Ms. Beatrix Weber
+49 (0)157 53654345
beatrix.weber@berlin-bilingual.de
Application Deadline
11th June 2017
by email: jobs@berlin-bilingual.de (preferred)
or
by mail: Pfefferwerk Stadtkultur gGmbH
Abteilungsleitung Stadtteilarbeit | Schulen
Attn.: Monika Schaal
Fehrbelliner Straße 92
10119 Berlin, Germany
Attached documents
About Berlin Bilingual School
Not so very long ago, a group of enterprising parents took it upon themselves to found a school for their children. This hadn’t exactly been their intention, at least at the beginning. What they needed at the time was a kindergarten because their children were still small. Small and bilingual.
Yet nowhere in the eastern part of Berlin was there a kindergarten where their children could learn in English and German. The parents took the necessary steps to form an association, and then established a kindergarten named, quite logically after their international offspring, Berlin Kids International.
The kindergarten has since changed hands. In 2007, the founding parents joined with Pfefferwerk Stadtkultur gGmbH to establish a primary school. They located a former East German school building, which had been abandoned for five years. They went to work on a courtyard knee-deep in weeds, walls covered in graffiti and floors strewn with trash. Parents painted and scraped, scrubbed and discarded, and furnished the building, one floor at a time.
That autumn, the first 16 children entered the Berlin Kids International School.
Five years later, the children had outgrown not only the Primary School, but also their school name. In anticipation of the opening of its Secondary School in August 2012, the school changed its name to Berlin Bilingual School.
Since August 2014, the school maintains two campuses: the Primary School (grades 1-6) is housed in Friedrichshain, and the Secondary School (grades 7-10 / continuing with grade 11 in 2016-17) in Lichtenberg.
The original school of 16 students in grades 1-3 has grown to 342 students in grades 1-10, with grade 11 beginning in August 2016.
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