Principal, St Christopher's School
St Christopher's School
Bahrain
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- August 2018
- Apply by:
- 18 July 2017
Job overview
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 70 different nationalities, St Christopher’s is a not-for-profit school, committed to developing global citizens and autonomous learners able to thrive and contribute to a rapidly changing 21st century world.
The School has benefited from 23 years of outstanding leadership from Ed Goodwin OBE who will retire as Principal in the summer of 2018. His successor has a unique opportunity to shape the future of one of the world’s leading international schools, and to guide St Christopher’s through a period of significant strategic growth and development which will include the development of a new, world class, senior school in the near future.
The Board of Governors seeks an outstanding educationalist with vision, ambition and experience to inspire the diverse St Christopher’s community in pursuit of even greater success. The appointed candidate will have the political acuity to lead an organisation at the heart of the community in Bahrain, and the personal authority, gravitas and authenticity to engage multiple influential stakeholders nationally and internationally. A track record of successful school leadership experience together with the emotional intelligence to manage complex organisational change is essential, as is a genuine commitment to St Christopher’s distinctive mission and values.
To download the appointment details for this role, including information on how to apply, please visit https://candidates.perrettlaver.com/vacancies, quoting reference 3098. The deadline for applications is 0830hrs (BST) on Thursday 7 September 2017.
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. Further details can be found in our Safeguarding Children and Safer Working Practice Policy.
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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