Head of Secondary Humanities- August 2025
NACIS Shanghai
Shanghai, China
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- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- August 2025
- Apply by:
- 31 December 2024
Job overview
HEAD OF SECONDARY HUMANITIES
Location: NACIS Shanghai
NACIS Shanghai is looking to recruit a Head of Secondary Humanities, to drive excellent teaching and learning in the subject of Secondary Economics, Business Studies, Geography or Global Perspectives.
This is an exciting opportunity to create a generation of resilient and creative global citizens, who will change our world for the better. You will benefit our students and people, through our programmes such as the Global Campus, Nord Anglia University, and our collaborations with The Juilliard School, MIT, UNICEF, IMG and King’s College London.
The School:
Founded in September 2016, NACIS Shanghai offers students a creative, challenging and rewarding learning experience. Students aged 6 to 18 years old are welcomed into our progressive and internationally minded school community. We offer a distinctive bilingual, blended learning programme leading to the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. Located in the Minhang District of Shanghai, the school has world class facilities that complement our innovative approach.
Our staff are from 10 different countries with significant numbers of colleagues from China, the UK, Ireland and North America.
The role:
We seek a qualified Head of Secondary Humanities to join where your focus will be:
- To offer leadership, inspiration and guidance to the secondary Humanities department with over 20 Humanities Teachers and 1 TA.
- The post holder must work effectively as a key member of the Secondary Leadership Team in ensuring students’ academic progress.
- To contribute significantly to school improvement/development and planning, and to promote the learning priorities of the school development plan whilst promoting the wider aspirations and values of the school. Including the development of a high-performance culture for students and staff.
- To teach one Humanities subjects across secondary school between Grade 6 and 12, including IGCSE, A-level and IBDP curriculum, preferably in IB Economics, IB Business Studies, IB ESS or IB Geography.
- To demonstrate thorough curriculum knowledge and be flexible within the Humanities department to teach different aspects of the curriculum.
- To ensure that planning, preparation, teaching, recording, assessment and reports meet the needs of the students and expectations of the school.
- To promote high expectations for our students, designing learning activities that are aligned to our school’s Secondary curriculum and creating a learning culture where there are no limits to what can be achieved.
- To foster an environment of respect within the classroom, facilitating learning through questioning and discussion.
The Successful Candidate will Possess:
- Qualified Teacher status with a minimum of five years teaching experience in a Secondary Humanities subject.
- At least 2 to 3 years leadership experiences managing a department.
- Experience of IBDP or A-level teaching is a MUST.
- Understanding of effective teaching and learning theory and practice of providing effectively for the individual needs of all children through classroom organization, differentiation and learning strategies.
- Holding a PGCE/ QTS or national recognized teaching license.
- Team player and be flexible.
About You:
Keen to collaborate and share your specialist expertise, you will be a fitting ambassador for the school. You will communicate with confidence across diverse audiences and situations, using your expertise to build strong relationships with parents and students. You will be able to adapt quickly to our fast-paced international environment as well as meet visa-related restrictions for China, including a bachelor degree, non-criminal background check and at least 24 months of teaching experiences.
To Apply:
Please include a CV and Cover Letter with your application.
At Nord Anglia Education, we are an equal opportunities employer dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. In our schools and offices around the world, we treat all colleagues fairly based on their skills and qualifications, without discrimination. We value individuals from all backgrounds, including those with different abilities and neurodivergent conditions, as well as those who identify with various protected characteristics.
We have a strict policy against discrimination and harassment of any kind. We also comply with all national, and local laws regarding non-discrimination and equal opportunity.
We expect all employees to embrace and promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in their everyday work, helping to create a welcoming environment for everyone.
Attached documents
About NACIS Shanghai
NACIS Shanghai in Minhang, Shanghai, China, is a co-educational establishment catering for students aged 6-18 years. It follows the Shanghai National Curriculum, blended with other international teaching methods and philosophy, taught in Mandarin Chinese and English.
The school, which opened in 2016, is both a day and boarding school with the latter facility offering the capacity to host 180 students of varying ages.
Students attending NACIS will experience a multilingual environment where teaching of topics will be in both English and Chinese according to the content of their learning sessions. The school aims to expand its students’ horizons with a global perspective, choosing topics that will enable them to learn about the world around them, ensuring they benefit fully from their international experience.
Students transitioning from NACIS’s preparatory stage of learning into Grade 9 and 10, can take examinations in Mathematics, Science (biology, chemistry and physics), English language, Chinese and Humanities (geography, history, Global Perspectives or Business Studies). Optional subjects include modern foreign languages (Spanish and French), music, art and computer science.
Senior students from grade 10-12 benefit from independent study facilities to help stimulate both individual study and group work.
Principal
Ms. Scarlett Chen
Values and vision
NACIS aims to ensure that all students experience creative and challenging learning through inspirational teaching. It promises to nurture a sense of pride in both individual and collective achievements and to instill a culture of respect from all, for all.
Students are encouraged to strive for excellence and are supported through school to develop into knowledgeable, caring, compassionate and internationally-minded global citizens who can make the world a better place. The school urges students to “stretch themselves that little bit further, to be relentlessly optimistic, to be the best that they can be.”
ABOUT NORD ANGLIA EDUCATION
Nord Anglia Education is the world's leading premium schools organization, with campuses located across 29 countries in North America, Europe, China, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Together, our 66 schools educate more than 64,000 students from kindergarten through to the end of secondary school. We are driven by one unifying philosophy: we are ambitious for our schools, students, teachers and staff, and we inspire every child who attends a Nord Anglia Education school to achieve more than they ever imagined possible.
Every parent wants their child to excel — so do we. Nord Anglia Education schools deliver high quality, transformational education and ensure excellent academic outcomes by going beyond traditional learning. Our global scale enables us to recruit and retain world-leading teachers and to offer unforgettable experiences through global and regional events, while our engaging learning environments ensure all of our students’ love coming to school.
Nord Anglia Education was founded in 1972 in the United Kingdom. The name Nord Anglia was chosen because of the company’s beginnings in the north of England. We initially offered learning services such as English as a foreign language classes and grew during the 1980s by opening full-scale nurseries and kindergartens. In 1992, we opened our first international school, the British School of Warsaw. In the 2000s, Nord Anglia Education began a strategic focus on premium international schools, with rapid growth in Asia, the Americas, China and across Europe and the Middle East. A truly international organisation, NAE now operates premium international schools worldwide. In July 2019, Nord Anglia Education has relocated its headquarters from Hong Kong to London, enabling even stronger growth in the future.
For more information, please visit www.nordangliaeducation.com.
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