Athletic Development Coach
Harrow School
Harrow
- New
- Salary:
- Contact the Recruitment team for salary details
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 31 August 2024
Job overview
Permanent, 36 weeks per year (33 weeks term time plus three weeks in the School holidays)
28 hours per week
The role: You will provide comprehensive and professional Athletic Development services and programmes for all boys involved in sports and physical development at Harrow. This will include structuring the Athletic Development provision to align with the Harrow vision for Sport, catering from beginners to the those in pursuit of excellence. A full job description can be found as an attachment to this advert.
The skills: You will have experience of coaching school-aged boys and teams from beginner to elite/advanced levels of performance, using your nationally recognised Athletic Development coaching and/or other vocational qualifications relevant to the sport and fitness industry. Your experience of working within an academy or professional sporting environment and of coaching national and international level athletes will be valuable, and your focus on safety protocols and understanding of the needs of athletes across multiple sports will support them to thrive in an environment of skill and safety. Using your strong communication skills and your supportive, approachable personality you will motivate and enthuse boys of all abilities to excel, and enjoy sports.
The environment: Harrow School is situated within a beautiful site in Harrow on the Hill, northwest London, and is one of the best-known schools in the world, with around 840 boys studying at Harrow. Surrounded by acres of sports fields, Astroturf pitches, a golf course, a swimming pool, a sports centre, and numerous tennis, rackets and fives courts, we offer a breadth of sporting opportunities to match every interest and ability. Many boys play several sports, and unique occasions like the annual cricket match against Eton at Lord’s provide memorable highlights in the School Calendar. Our extensive and hotly contested inter-House sports programme engages all 12 Houses in varied competitions. Our elite sportsmen have an impressive record of achievement at the highest levels internationally; some go on to enjoy professional careers.
The benefits include:
- free lunch and free parking.
- automatic enrolment in the School’s pension scheme.
- use of the School’s sports facilities such as the swimming pool, gym, and running track
- subsidised membership of the tennis, golf, angling and social clubs.
Closing date: Midnight, Saturday 31 August 2024
Applications will be processed as they are received, so early application is recommended.
Equality, diversity and inclusion are values that are important to us at Harrow. We believe in diversity of thought and actively welcome everyone regardless of their background to bring their valuable and relevant skills to our community.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All successful applicants must be willing to undergo enhanced child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with any past employer and the Disclosure and Barring Service, and it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. No member of staff will be able to start until these checks are complete and this process takes, on average, a month. Please plan accordingly.
Attached documents
About Harrow School
Harrow School is situated in Harrow on the Hill in north-west London. The School is located on a 324-acre estate which encompasses much of Harrow on the Hill and is one of the best-known schools in the world. Around 837 boys study at Harrow and live in the School’s 12 boarding houses. Employees particularly value the School’s beautiful green estate, the positive working environment, and good relationships with their colleagues.
Harrow School is an independent boarding secondary school for boys aged 13-18. It was established, by royal charter, in 1572 during the reign of Elizabeth I. It is operated as a Royal Charter Corporation, which is a charitable trust whose trustees are the school’s governors. The school licenses the Harrow name to a number of schools in Asia.
Head Master
Alastair Land
Values and vision
Harrow School believes that the success of students should not be measured purely by grades, but by their influence on the wider world.
The school believes that all organisations need strong and clearly expressed values to create identity, focus, unity and drive, and in order to answer the questions: “what do we belong to?”, “what’s important to us?”, "why do our collective efforts matter?”, and “what holds us together?”.
Harrow’s values of courage, honour, humility and fellowship aim to help the school to make decisions from day-to-day that mean members of its community behave and perform better. These four Values link closely to Harrow School’s Christian foundation, and the principles of “Godliness and good learning” established by its founder, John Lyon.
ISI report
“Pupils are high achievers in all areas of their academic lives. Their success owes much to the strong and supportive boarding community to which they all belong and which gives the encouragement to work hard and aim high, and the confidence to set themselves ambitious goals.”
“Pupils invariably work hard and utilise their strong motivation and desire to succeed, and this is one of the main drivers in their success. The strong progress they make, and their all-round excellent achievement is enabled by many innovative approaches and initiatives introduced by school leaders.”
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