Head of Senior School
St Christopher's School
Bahrain
- Expired
- Salary:
- Highly competitive, tax-free
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- Autumn Term 2022
- Apply by:
- 5 January 2022
Job overview
St Christopher’s School, Bahrain is seeking to appoint an outstanding leader with the vision, passion, ambition and experience to inspire the diverse St Christopher’s community to further success.
The appointed candidate will have a track record of successful school leadership experience together with the emotional intelligence to manage complex organisational change. A genuine commitment to St Christopher’s distinctive mission, vision and values is essential. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the success of an outstanding school with bold ambitions for its future.
- Bahrain Arrival Date: to be agreed upon appointment
- Start Date: August 2022
- Location: Bahrain, Isa Town campus
- Contract type: Full Time
- Salary: Highly competitive, tax-free
- Package: An excellent remuneration package commensurate with the importance of the role and the experience of the successful candidate will be offered.
At St Christopher's School, Bahrain, we are proud of our well-established reputation, built over 60 years, within the community, supportive leadership team and excellent school spirit.
St Christopher’s has been awarded ‘Outstanding’ in all standards in its past three BSO inspections, achieving the acclaimed ‘Gold Standard’; an enviable record that demonstrates the commitment of staff at St Christopher’s.
St Christopher’s is one of the world’s pre-eminent British international schools with an impressive local, regional and international reputation for excellence. A vibrant community of over 2,300 students aged 3 to 18 and made up of more than 65 different nationalities, St Christopher’s is a not-for-profit school, committed to Education for a Shared Humanity and in developing Role Models for the World.
How to Apply: Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible using this link https://bit.ly/StChrisHeadofSeniors
St Christopher’s reserves the right to interview and appoint before the published closing date.
The key dates for the recruitment process are as follows:
- Saturday 8 January 2022: Closing Date for applications
- Week of Sunday 9 January 2022: Applicants longlisted and invited to submit a video
- Week of Sunday 16 January 2022: Applicants shortlisted and invited to an online interview
- Saturday 29 January 2022: Final candidates to travel to Bahrain (Covid regulations permitting)
- Sunday 30 & Monday 31 January 2022: Final round of interviews
It is our policy to obtain two references prior to candidates being shortlisted, one of whom should be from your current Principal.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
For information on working and living in Bahrain, please click on the link below.
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St Christopher's School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in our care. We follow safe recruitment practices and appointments are subject to vetting including reference checks, identity and criminal record checks, social media and qualification checks.
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About St Christopher's School
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Established in Bahrain, St Christopher's School is widely recognised as one of the world's top British schools overseas. It first opened in the grounds of St Christopher's Church in 1961. The School overcame the many challenges those early days presented; ever growing and ever developing and, in 1975, became independent of the Church with a number of companies acting as ‘Founders’; these ensured the continued advances that St Chris has made to become the excellent home of learning that it is today.
Those involved with the School in 1961 could hardly have imagined that a school with an initial roll of thirty would evolve into one with around 2,300 students from over 65 nations at any one time; a school with a notable international reputation with exceptional facilities and resources.
An important aspect of the School is that St Christopher's is a not-for-profit institution. Members of the Board of Governors serve in a voluntary and entirely unpaid capacity and there are no owners and no shareholders - all income from fees is used to run and further develop the School for the benefit of children. This is just one of many features that sets St Christopher's School apart as the premier choice for those parents who need and demand the very best British style education for their children in Bahrain.
Not only does St Chris have a consistently excellent record of academic success, we also offer a very fine programme of extracurricular activities and personal development opportunities, including many overseas cultural, sporting and academic trips.
St Christopher's is a highly successful school, firmly established in the British tradition, augmented by an international outlook. We have been inspected under three different inspection regimes:
- British Schools Overseas regulations (recognised by the UK Department for Education) as equivalent to those used to inspect independent schools in England (OFSTED)
- British Schools in the Middle East (BSME) Accreditation Programme
- National Authority of Qualifications and Quality Assurance for Education and Training (BQA – Kingdom of Bahrain) Inspection
In all of these we received a rating of “Outstanding” – not just as an overall assessment but for every aspect of performance as well.
Our standing as a prominent overseas British school is further indicated by our acceptance into membership of the prestigious HMC (the organisation of which all the leading UK independent schools are members - http://www.hmc.org.uk/) and IAPS (the top 600 leading independent UK and worldwide prep schools - https://www.iaps.org.uk/.
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