Director of University and Careers Advice
Bromley High School
Bromley
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2015
- Apply by:
- 9 March 2015
Job overview
Salary: Competitive (in accordance with experience and qualifications)
An outstanding opportunity for an experienced graduate with Careers expertise to develop an outward and forward looking programme of Higher Education and Careers Guidance for the able and ambitious girls of Bromley High School.
We are looking for an inspirational graduate with first rate communication skills and the extensive knowledge required to give expert advice on application to Russell Group universities, Oxbridge and World Class overseas Universities. The role will suit a candidate with the skills to build contacts in universities and the professional world and the energy and imagination to create an innovative programme of careers development.
The ideal candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills and first class organisation and administrative skills, with the ability to remain calm under pressure and to work to tight deadlines, managing competing priorities. You will have excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.
Key to the role will be an awareness of recent important national educational developments and a clear understanding of recent developments in iGCSE and post 16 qualifications. You will have expertise in university admissions in the UK and abroad and a broad knowledge of the world of work, industry, professions and GAP years. Experience of the Oxbridge Admissions process would be desirable.
Bromley High School is a selective independent school of 875 girls, occupying a 25 acre parkland site in leafy Bickley, in Kent. Easily accessible by train from central London, it offers space to breathe with the convenience of the city on its doorstep.
The GDST offers a competitive salary scale and generous benefits. The starting salary for this post will be in accordance with the successful candidate’s experience and qualifications.
For further information and applying online please visit our website: http://www.bromleyhigh.gdst.net/Job-Vacancies
Closing date for receipt of applications: 9am, Monday 9th March 2015.
Interviews will be held on Monday 16th March 2015.
Bromley High School and 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.
Bromley High School
Blackbrook Lane, Bickley Bromley, Kent, BR1 2TW
Tel: 020 8781 7000
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About Bromley High School
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Bromley High School has been offering an exceptional education to bright and talented girls since 1883.
A leading GDST and HMC girls’ school with superb facilities spread across a leafy 25-acre site, Bromley High School educates approximately 870 girls from pre-prep to Sixth Form.
The school’s academic results are consistently excellent earning a rare ‘Exceptional’ rating for Learning and Achievement from the Independent Schools’ Inspectorate. Achievement at A-level in 2022 was 34% A*s, 68% A*-A and 91% A*-B.
Bromley High girls are resilient and well-rounded young women participating with enthusiasm and commitment in music, drama, art, sport, Duke of Edinburgh and an overabundant range of activities – and where they have interest or talent or enthusiasm, it is nurtured so that they learn to excel.
As the first all girls’ All-Steinway School in the world, the school continually invests in the music department, and offers its own Musician in Residence and specialist music wing. In 2020, the school launched a Steinway Scholarship and Mentoring Scheme offer the winning recipient coaching sessions throughout the year, a masterclass from a Steinway artist at Steinway Hall, private lessons with a Steinway artist and a solo recital at Steinway Hall. In 2021, the school’s first ever Steinway Scholar won a place to read Music at Oxford.
Sport is also exceptional: with 25 acres of top class facilities including a beautiful pool, new fitness suite, sports hall, gym, track and floodlit courts and pitches, providing the perfect environment in which to develop girls’ love of sport. Bromley High School has achieved huge successes in sport at regional and national level. The school’s under 16 team reached the National Hockey finals and were placed 3rd in the country and in 2021, Year 12 pupil Evie Davis won two gold medals with Team GB at the European Swimming Championships.
Pastoral Care is of paramount importance at Bromley High and the school offers an outstanding supportive and caring pastoral system. In 2021, the excellence of the school’s pastoral care was recognised by the Wellbeing Award for Schools.
Bromley High School provides a beautiful and vibrant environment where bright girls flourish.
The Girls’ Day School Trust
The GDST is the leading network of independent girls’ schools in the UK, with nearly 4,000 staff and 20,000 students in our 24 schools and two academies. The majority of GDST schools take girls all through, from the age of three to 18 (there are about 6,000 pupils in GDST Junior schools).
Founded in 1872, the GDST has a long history of pioneering innovation in the education of girls, and is the largest single educator of girls in the UK (and the UK’s largest educational charity).
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