Head of Early Years
Harrow International School, Shanghai
Shanghai, China
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive and full package
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- January 2015
- Apply by:
- 23 September 2014
Job overview
Applications are sought for the post of Head of Early Years at Harrow International School, Shanghai with effect from January 2015, allowing at least one year to prepare the EYC for opening.
The successful candidate will have the experience and vision to lead an outstanding Early Years Centre (Creche, Pre-K, K1 and K2) based on the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. The Early Years Centre will be part of the newest in the Harrow International group of schools which provides co-educational schooling for children aged 2-18 in Bangkok, Beijing and Hong Kong.
Suitable candidates will be those who demonstrate:
- Qualifications appropriate to the post
- Outstanding classroom practice.
- Leadership in Early Years education with a strong commitment to high academic standards.
- Leadership ability and experience.
- Excellent inter-personal skills.
- Excellent administrative, organisational, and IT skills.
- 'Leadership for a better world' (associated attributes provided below)
Leadership Values
In the spirit of the School's vision statement, Leadership for a better world, referees will be expected to affirm that applicants consistently demonstrate the School's core values:
- Contributing positively to community
- Applying knowledge with compassion
- Solving problems collaboratively
- Solving problems creatively
- Making just choices
- Facing challenges with determination
Harrow International School Shanghai
Operating in close association with Harrow School in London, the Harrow International family of schools shares the same mission, ethos and high standards. The Pre-Prep of Harrow International School Shanghai will open in the fall of 2015 and Early Years in January 2016 with the Upper School opening in August 2016. It will be a K-13 day and boarding school with a capacity of 1500 students on a campus site of 37,000 sq metres. The school will open with around 500 students.
Harrow International School Shanghai will boast a first-rate range of educational and sports facilities, boarding houses and staff quarters. The school will be located in the new Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone which has excellent connectivity to the centre of the city and the airport by metro lines and expressways.
How to apply
The application deadline is September 23rd 2014; however, early applications are encouraged as the school will shortlist on a rolling basis. Interviews will be held in late September and early October 2014.
For an information pack and/or to apply for a position please follow this link: www.ticrecruitment.com/harrow/shanghai
All enquiries should be directed to Gemma McSweeney, Recruitment Manager at TIC Recruitment, who is representing the school.
Email: harrow@ticrecruitment.com
Tel: +44 (0) 2920 212083
Web: www.ticrecruitment.com/harrow
Leadership for a better world
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Successful applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening.
About Harrow International School, Shanghai
Harrow School Shanghai is a co-educational day school for students aged from 18 months to 18 years. The teaching is based upon the EYFS Framework and the English National Curriculum, culminating in IGCSEs for Removes and Fifth Form (Years 10 and 11), and A levels within the Sixth Form (Years 12 and 13). With a world-renowned reputation for its rich heritage of educational excellence, unique traditions and inspiring Leadership and Service programme, Harrow boasts a state-of-the-art campus with outstanding facilities, all located within 35 minutes of the epicenter of one of the world's most exciting and dynamic cities.
Harrow Shanghai is the fourth international school in the Harrow family of schools, joining those in Bangkok, Beijing and Hong Kong, alongside the historic Harrow School and its near-neighbour, John Lyon School, in London.
The School is organised as follows:
- Early Years -Pre-Nursery, Nursery and Reception
- Pre-Prep-Years 1- 4
- Prep -Years 5- 8
- Senior: Shells, Removes and Fifth Form (Years 9–11) and Sixth Form (Year 12-13)
The School is located in a modern custom-built facility, which accurately reflects the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai. The School combines elements of educational philosophy, practice and traditions from Harrow School in London within the context of the international minded-set of a diverse student body in Shanghai. It is envisaged that the School will eventually grow to a roll of approximately 950. As with the other Harrow Schools, Shanghai’s vision, 'Leadership for a better world', is realised by means of a characteristically Harrow approach to schooling which demands of students and teachers high academic attainment, involvement in a rich array of extra-curricular activities, and engagement in high quality pastoral support structures, particularly the House system. Students are assigned into Houses where their which their academic and all-round well-being is monitored, nurtured and supported.
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