Head of Spanish
King's College School Cascais
Portugal
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- August 2025
- Apply by:
- 31 August 2025
Job overview
ROLE SUMMARY:
King’s College School, Cascais, a distinguished member of the Inspired Education Group, is seeking an experienced and dynamic Head of Spanish to lead our Spanish department. Our school offers the Cambridge International curriculum, including IGCSEs, and is set to introduce the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme in 2026. We are committed to fostering academic excellence and holistic development in a vibrant, multicultural environment. This role presents an exciting opportunity to shape the future of our Spanish department and inspire the next generation of linguists.
In addition to your interest in this role, you might also be interested in our annual in-person global career event, taking place in London on Saturday 18th January 2025. This school and up to 35 other schools from across the UK and international Inspired Education network will be attending and looking to speak to people seeking a new teaching role from August 2025. For more information and to register your interest in the event, please click here: https://jobs.inspirededu.com/job-invite/3761/
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Leadership and Management: Lead the Spanish department, overseeing curriculum development, teaching standards, and resource allocation to ensure high-quality education.
- Curriculum Development: Design and implement a comprehensive Spanish curriculum aligned with Cambridge International and forthcoming IB standards, fostering linguistic proficiency and cultural awareness.
- Teaching Excellence: Deliver engaging and challenging Spanish lessons to students from Years 7 to 13, ensuring excellence in academic outcomes across all levels, including Sixth Form.
- Assessment and Evaluation: Develop and administer assessments that accurately measure student progress, providing constructive feedback to support individual learning needs and preparing students for top examination performance.
- Professional Development: Mentor and support Spanish teachers, facilitating professional growth and promoting best practices within the department.
- Collaboration: Work closely with colleagues across departments to promote interdisciplinary learning and contribute to the school’s academic initiatives.
- Student Engagement: Encourage student participation in extracurricular activities related to Spanish, such as language clubs, competitions, and cultural events.
- Quality Assurance: Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the Spanish curriculum and teaching methods, implementing improvements as necessary to maintain the highest standards.
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:
- Educational Background: A degree in Spanish or a related field, with a strong academic track record (e.g., First or Upper Second Class Honours) and a recognized teaching qualification.
- Proven Academic Excellence: Experience teaching Spanish at GCSE and IB (or equivalent, such as A Levels), with a history of securing top academic outcomes, including high proportions of students achieving top grades.
- Analytical Insight: The ability to articulate what drives excellent progress and performance in Spanish examination specifications, providing a clear vision for academic success.
- Experience in Academic Environments: A minimum of 2 years’ teaching experience in a fast-paced, academically ambitious school, including teaching Sixth Form (Years 12 and 13).
- Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a department, with strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Innovative Teaching: A passion for teaching and the ability to inspire students through creative and engaging lessons.
- Assessment Expertise: Experience in developing and implementing effective assessment strategies to monitor and enhance student learning.
- Commitment to Growth: A proactive approach to personal and professional development, staying updated on advancements in Spanish language education.
- Collaborative Mindset: A collaborative approach to working with colleagues, students, and the wider school community.
- Cultural Awareness: An appreciation for working in a multicultural environment and the ability to connect with students from diverse backgrounds.
SAFEGUARDING STATEMENT
Inspired Education Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practices and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.
About King's College School Cascais
- King's College School Cascais
- Rua Cesario Verde 395, Pampilheira, Cascais
- Lisbon
- 2750-657
- Portugal
Our School is part of the Inspired Education Group
King’s College School, Cascais comes with a 50-year heritage of academic excellence instilled from the King’s College schools group, one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the world.
King‘s College School is an international school offering a truly global education and is the only school in Lisbon to offer the full world-renowned Cambridge curriculum up until Year 11 (age 16) and then culminate with the International Baccalaureate Diploma programme in Years 12 & 13 (age 16-18).
The school offers the highest quality modern facilities, ensuring that students benefit from a learning environment that has been designed for how students learn in the modern day. Facilities include football pitches, tennis courts, padel courts as well as dance, drama, and art studios.
King’s College School joins other King’s Group schools in Spain, Panama, Latvia and soon The Bahamas and Egypt. King’s Group schools have provided children with a rigorous and broad British and international education since 1969 with a focus on developing thoughtful and knowledgeable young people. The success of the group comes from recruiting teachers with the skills and experience to turn the curriculum into dynamic lessons that ignite the imagination.
The King’s belief that child-centred, exploratory learning teaches students to think, question and explore new ideas, complements lnspired’s forward-thinking learning approach.
The Inspired learning approach
Our approach is defined by supportive academic excellence and the exploration of life skills to develop students’ self-confidence and self-assurance.
We do this by delivering a focus on the individual and offering a broad curriculum based on the three pillars. Academics are at the centre of our approach but are also complemented equally by Performing Arts and Sport. This rich curriculum ensures that every student can discover their passions and develop their skills. Students are encouraged and supported to excel across all areas, even those they find more difficult.
Our Three Pillar Approach
1. Academics
Central to all our schools, our core of academia teaches our students critical and lateral thinking to inform the understanding and application of a wide variety of disciplines. At King’s College School, we follow the British Curriculum to Year 11 and then the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme to Year 13.
2. Sport
Inspired’s sporting pillar stands for health, wellbeing, fun, motivation, self-discipline,
and self-esteem. Whether it’s about involving students in team sports or introducing them to individual pursuits, we aim to provide an athletics programme to suit every student. King’s College School students can get involved in a broad range of sporting pursuits including football, basketball, cricket, swimming, and tennis.
While some students in each school go on to achieve national and international honours, all students benefit from the fitness, enjoyment, and life-long interest that sport can spark. The physical exercise involved also contributes to the mental alertness necessary for successful study.
3. Performing Arts
The arts help to instil confidence and selfassurance within our students to nurture and
develop their interests for life. This confidence is derived from performance, the appreciation of the arts as fundamental to the human experience, and a creative approach to all that our students do.
From drama lessons and public speaking to instrumental music lessons and visual arts, King’s College School students get to experience it all as part of the core curriculum.
Build a career with Inspired Education
Inspired schools remain anchored in the vibrant cultures of their respective locations, and collectively, they form an international community that nurtures each student's academic and personal development in a progressive, dynamic, and innovative learning environment.
Specialist-led, extracurricular activities and exchange programmes are woven into the fabric of Inspired's approach to schooling, resulting in a well-rounded, diverse student population of engaged, active learners who confidently apply their wide-ranging skills within a global context.
Students benefit from a robust, holistic, international curriculum formed around the Inspired three pillars of modern education: academic excellence, sports, and performing & creative arts, with dedicated, highly qualified teachers who demonstrate Inspired's exemplary methodology. In the application of a student-centred teaching model, Inspired schools achieve outstanding examination results and, importantly, nurture happy, multi-skilled individuals who have faith in their abilities. Inspired students are empowered to fulfil their potential and are fully equipped to thrive in a modern world.
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