Deputy Head - Devahill, India - Harrow International School Bengaluru

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Harrow International School, Bengaluru welcomes applications for the post of Deputy Head. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, highly motivated, and experienced leader to work with the Founding Head Master in providing strategic leadership to shape a world leading school. The successful candidate will become a highly visible leader, working closely with students, staff and parents on a daily basis. They are likely to have gained experience of curricular and co-curricular leadership as a House Mistress/Master or Assistant Head in a high-achieving school, and aspire to headship in due course. The post comes with a generous salary and an extensive benefits package.

The Deputy Head will fulfill a wide-ranging role and will be critical to the successful operation of the school, which opened as a co-educational boarding and day school to students from Year 7 to Year 13 (Grade 6 to Grade 12) in August 2023. They will take joint responsibility, with other members of the Senior Leadership Team, to develop strategy and implement procedures across the school, working closely with the Founding Head Master.

At the same time, they will take ownership for particular aspects of school life, with flexibility as to which areas the successful candidate may focus upon. However, as a school with a strong commitment to boarding life, outstanding pastoral care, the highest standards of safeguarding, and a broad and deep co-curricular programme, experience in one of more of these areas will be a particular advantage.

Harrow International School, Bengaluru is the first of a series of Harrow Schools to open across India, in a collaboration between Harrow School UK, with its 450 years of distinguished history, and The Amity Education Group, a not-for-profit education foundation that provides premium quality learning in India and around the world. The school blends the Harrow Values of Courage, Honour, Humility and Fellowship with the vibrancy of modern India, offering an exceptional educational experience, characterized by world-class academic, pastoral and extra-curricular opportunities. This, then, is a unique opportunity to play a role in the development of this new partnership and a new geography for the Harrow Family of Schools, with the support, resource, and expertise of two leading educational brands

If you believe you are the type of person to help us deliver this aim, we would love to hear from you. For further information and to apply, please apply online through the TES portal.

Harrow International Schools are committed to the safety and protection of children. All employees are expected to comply with our School Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy.

Please note that interviews may be held at any stage after applications are received, so candidates are advised to apply as soon as possible. We may appoint to the position earlier than the specified deadline, once the right candidate is shortlisted.