KS1 Year Group Leader

Key Stage 1 Year Group Leader

We are looking for a highly effective Year Group Leader who is a caring, enthusiastic and highly motivated educational professional. The Year Group Leader works closely with the leadership team of the Infant School to lead, support and represent a Year Group team. A highly effective Year Group Leader is a person who puts our children at the centre of the decision making process and who can demonstrate that they are:

• A highly skilled team player who can lead, manage and motivate a very supportive team of educational professionals.
• A person who can represent the views and opinions of others and be seen as a ‘voice’ for their team at meetings whilst balancing, respecting and understanding the views of others and the senior leadership team.
• Able to understand and appreciate the complex nature of school leadership by considering and preparing in advance solutions to Year Group problems where possible. 
• A highly effective Year Group Leader is also able to respond to their respective teams in a manner that supports the school view alongside those of their colleagues.
• Excellent communicators who are approachable, thoughtful and reliable and who can seek advice when needed. 
• Ambassadors for their Year Group who can be relied on, even at times of high stress and pressure, to help, support and lead when required.
• Very professional in their dealings with children, parents, staff and the wider community and understand, support and value the mission, vision and core values of the school.

We are particularly interested in teachers who have experience with facilitating play-based, active learning in Key Stage 1 as this is one of the areas we are currently developing at the Infant School. For further details of the role and to find out more about what it is like to work at the Infant School, please refer to our booklet Working at the Infant School.

The British School of Amsterdam is an independent co-educational non-profit day school providing world class learning for children from 3 to 18 years. Currently based on three campuses in the south of the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the school is organised into four sections: Early Years (3-5 years), Infant (5-7), Junior (7-11) and Senior (11-18 ) each with its own head and team of staff. We currently have 930 pupils across the school. The British School of Amsterdam is directed by the Senior Leadership Team comprising the Principal, Bursar and the heads of the Early Years, Infant, Junior and Senior schools. 

We are, proudly, a non-selective school with high expectations of all pupils and staff. Our staff are the school's greatest asset; they are professional, caring, committed and work together, whatever their role, to provide the best possible education for the children in our care.   

We are a member of COBIS and accredited by the UK Government as a British School Overseas offering the National Curriculum for England leading to IGCSEs and A-Levels. The most recent inspection report from November 2017 can be found here.

Contract and package

Year Group Leaders have a full-time teaching commitment and are expected to fulfil their responsibilities as Year Group Leader alongside their teaching role.  The post is full time, and in the first instance temporary for one year. Although the post will initially be based at the Infant School, all primary staff are expected to be flexible and ready to work in any of our three primary sections: Early Years, Infant or Junior

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary
• Relocation allowance (for expatriate staff)
• Pension plan
• Possibility of applying for a tax discount for overseas highly skilled migrants in the Netherlands (commonly referred to as the 30% Ruling) 
• Free school places for employees who quality for the 30% Ruling

Application process

Please send your completed application form which includes a covering letter, addressed to the Principal, Paul Morgan, to recruitment@britams.nl by Friday 6 April at 12pm (CET). Further information can be obtained by contacting the HR Manager, Felicade Luzolo f.luzolo@britams.nl.

Initial Skype interviews for long-listed candidates will take place in the week beginning 16 April with further interviews in Amsterdam for shortlisted candidates in the week beginning 30 April. 

Safeguarding

The offer of the role will be subject to receipt of two satisfactory references, proof of relevant qualifications, identification checks and other safeguarding checks including an enhanced DBS check and, where applicable, overseas police checks.