Head of Senior School
St Christopher's School
Bahrain
- New
- Salary:
- Highly competitive, tax-free
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 20 August 2025
- Apply by:
- 11 December 2024
Job overview
St Christopher’s School, ranked in the Top 100 Private Schools in the World by Spears, is seeking to appoint an outstanding leader with vision, passion, ambition and experience to inspire our diverse St Christopher’s community in pursuit of even greater success.
The appointed candidate will have a track record of successful school leadership experience together with the emotional intelligence to manage complex organisational change. A genuine commitment to St Christopher’s distinctive Mission, Vision and Values is essential. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the success of an outstanding school with bold ambitions for its future.
- Would you like to be part of a hard-working, highly professional team?
- Do you value supportive parents?
- Would you like to be able to access world-class CPD training?
- Do you want a high standard of living and a lifestyle that offers a wide range of opportunities?
- Would you like an excellent salary and comprehensive benefits?
Sound like you? Then apply now to join our excellent and dedicated team at St Christopher’s School, Bahrain.
- Bahrain Arrival Date: mid August 2025
- Staff Induction Week: 20 August 2025
- Location: Bahrain, Isa Town campus
- Contract type: Full Time
- Salary: Highly competitive, tax-free
- Package: An excellent remuneration package commensurate with the importance of the role and the experience of the successful candidate will be offered.
How to Apply: Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible using this link https://st-chris.schoolrecruiter.com/
Applicants will be invited to proceed on a rolling basis, so early applications are strongly recommended.
St Christopher’s reserves the right to interview and appoint before the published closing date.
Closing date: Wednesday 11 December 2024
It is our policy to obtain three references prior to candidates being shortlisted, one of whom should be from your current Headteacher / Principal
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
We are seeking a capable and dedicated individual to join our exemplary academic team and make a difference. The ideal candidate should have effective communication skills for dealing with students, parents, teachers, and support staff and should be organised, energetic and self-directed.
Our curriculum offers a full, broad and balanced range of learning opportunities both in and out of the classroom, within a supportive and engaging teaching environment.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about raising learners’ individual achievements with innovative ideas to build on existing good practice.
If you meet these criteria, are enthusiastic about teaching and learning and have the drive and passion to get the most from our students, we would very much welcome your application.
At St Christopher's School, Bahrain, we are proud of our well-established reputation, built over 60 years, within the community, supportive leadership team, outstanding facilities and excellent school spirit.
St Christopher’s has been awarded ‘Outstanding’ in all standards in its past four BSO inspections; an enviable record that demonstrates the commitment of staff at St Christopher’s.
For the fourth year in a row we have ranked in the Top 100 Private Schools in the World by Spears and we have recently been awarded Curriculum Initiative of the Year by TES.
St Christopher’s is one of the world’s pre-eminent British international schools with an impressive local, regional and international reputation for excellence. A vibrant community of over 2,300 students aged 3 to 18 and made up of more than 65 different nationalities, St Christopher’s is a not-for-profit school, committed to Education for a Shared Humanity and in developing Role Models for the World.
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St Christopher's School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in our care. We follow safe recruitment practices and appointments are subject to vetting including reference checks, identity and criminal record checks, social media and qualification checks.
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About St Christopher's School
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Established in Bahrain, St Christopher's School is widely recognised as one of the world's top British schools overseas. It first opened in the grounds of St Christopher's Church in 1961. The School overcame the many challenges those early days presented; ever growing and ever developing and, in 1975, became independent of the Church with a number of companies acting as ‘Founders’; these ensured the continued advances that St Chris has made to become the excellent home of learning that it is today.
Those involved with the School in 1961 could hardly have imagined that a school with an initial roll of thirty would evolve into one with around 2,300 students from over 65 nations at any one time; a school with a notable international reputation with exceptional facilities and resources.
An important aspect of the School is that St Christopher's is a not-for-profit institution. Members of the Board of Governors serve in a voluntary and entirely unpaid capacity and there are no owners and no shareholders - all income from fees is used to run and further develop the School for the benefit of children. This is just one of many features that sets St Christopher's School apart as the premier choice for those parents who need and demand the very best British style education for their children in Bahrain.
Not only does St Chris have a consistently excellent record of academic success, we also offer a very fine programme of extracurricular activities and personal development opportunities, including many overseas cultural, sporting and academic trips.
St Christopher's is a highly successful school, firmly established in the British tradition, augmented by an international outlook. We have been inspected under three different inspection regimes:
- British Schools Overseas regulations (recognised by the UK Department for Education) as equivalent to those used to inspect independent schools in England (OFSTED)
- British Schools in the Middle East (BSME) Accreditation Programme
- National Authority of Qualifications and Quality Assurance for Education and Training (BQA – Kingdom of Bahrain) Inspection
In all of these we received a rating of “Outstanding” – not just as an overall assessment but for every aspect of performance as well.
Our standing as a prominent overseas British school is further indicated by our acceptance into membership of the prestigious HMC (the organisation of which all the leading UK independent schools are members - http://www.hmc.org.uk/) and IAPS (the top 600 leading independent UK and worldwide prep schools - https://www.iaps.org.uk/.
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