Rowing Coach & Equipment Manager
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- £26,000
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2022
- Apply by:
- 18 August 2022
Job overview
Wimbledon High School seeks an experienced rowing coach to assist the Head of Rowing in the overall running of its a hugely ambitious, thriving and motivated Boat Club. Specifically, but not exclusively, you will run the Junior 13 and Junior 14 rowing programme, including school holiday training camps. You will also deputise for the Head of Rowing in her absence.
Rowing is a popular sport at Wimbledon High School, with WHS Boat Club a key part of the school community and the community on the river. In just five seasons, Head of Rowing Gillian Lindsay (Olympic silver medallist and World Champion) has taken WHSBC to great heights, including the winning of gold, silver and bronze medals at the National Schools' Regatta, participation in the Henley Royal Regatta and numerous wins in more local events. As Rowing Coach and Equipment Manager, you will play a key role in continuing this success.
The successful candidate will have proven coaching experience within a school environment, ideally supported by relevant coaching qualifications. You will be an inspirational leader but equally a team player capable in teaching specific rowing styles in harmony with the Head of Rowing's vision. Part of the role will include transporting both boats and pupils to competition venues and the boat club, therefore a full clean minibus and trailing driving license is desirable (but not essential). The ability to carry out minor boat repairs is also needed.
Benefits
As part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Training grants for qualifications
- Generous pension schemes
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment
For more information and to apply via our application portal please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications is 9am on Thursday 18 August 2022, and the interview date will be soon after.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included
The GDST are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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