Head of Boarding
King's College School, The Bahamas
Bahamas
- New
- Salary:
- Significant and tax-free
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- August 2025
- Apply by:
- 16 November 2024
Job overview
Job overview
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join an outstanding and ambitious founding team at King's College School, The Bahamas, Inspired's premium school on the island paradise of The Bahamas. Since opening in August 2022, the school has continued to grow and will inaugurate its boarding house in August 2025.
We seek an exceptional Head of Boarding with a passion for education, dedication, creativity, and the ability to shape our boarding provision. This is a unique opportunity to create a "home away from home" environment in a brand-new boarding facility while working with a dynamic and growing international school community. The role will report directly to the Founding Principal.
This role will commence in August 2025.
Key Responsibilities:
- Pastoral Care and Development: Oversee the welfare, safety, and development of all boarding students, ensuring their pastoral needs are met and that each pupil can flourish socially and academically.
- Ethos and Environment: Maintain a nurturing, supportive boarding house that promotes personal responsibility, independence, and community values.
- Team Leadership: Lead and manage a team of house staff, including resident house parents, auxiliary staff, and others involved in the daily operations of the boarding house.
- Integration with the School Community: Ensure that boarders integrate seamlessly into the wider school environment during the day and provide a supportive, structured home life in the evenings and weekends.
- Parental Engagement: Build strong relationships with parents, ensuring open and effective communication about their child's progress and well-being.
- Contribution to Senior Leadership: Participate actively in the school’s leadership team and contribute to whole-school initiatives, including support for academics, co-curricular programs, and student discipline.
The ideal candidate will have:
- A university degree in a relevant field.
- A strong background in pastoral care, with previous experience in a boarding setting highly desirable.
- Proven leadership skills with the ability to inspire and manage a team.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships with students, staff, and parents.
- Strong organisational and administrative abilities to manage the daily operations of the boarding house.
- A commitment to continuous professional development and a proactive approach to learning and self-improvement.
- A positive, adaptable, and hands-on approach to the demands of running a boarding house.
The School
King's College School, The Bahamas, opened in September 2022 in Nassau. It is the only school in the region that is part of Inspired’s global group of premium schools. For the 2024/25 academic year, the school will welcome over 300 students from Pre-Reception to Year 10. The school follows the Cambridge International Curriculum up to IGCSEs, and students then have the opportunity to choose either the IB Diploma or International A-Levels. This approach allows us to individualise our educational offer and ensure the best opportunities for each of our students.
The school's state-of-the-art facilities include light and airy classrooms, science labs, a 25-meter swimming pool, football and tennis courts, and an array of performing arts spaces.
Why join us? Inspired offers the opportunity to collaborate with passionate educators, expand your skills, and grow in a stunning location. In addition, you will benefit from:
- Industry-leading professional development.
- Exceptional internal career mobility within King’s College School and Inspired’s family of premium schools.
- A competitive tax-free salary and benefits.
- Relocation support and access to discounted accommodation near one of the island’s most beautiful beaches.
- Free school places for children.
Safeguarding
Any successful applications will be required to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and an enhanced DBS check and completing any relevant safeguarding assessments.
Equal Opportunities
Inspired Education is an equal opportunities employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Apply now
To apply, please click here: https://jobs.inspirededu.com/job-invite/4099/
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About King's College School, The Bahamas
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Our School is part of the Inspired Education Group
Inspired Education is the leading global group of premium schools, with a portfolio of 119 premium private schools spanning 6 continents which utilise proven educational practices from every corner of the globe, ensuring over 85,000 students receive a world-class learning experience from Kindergarten to Year 13.
In 27 countries, Inspired schools are individually developed and anchored in the vibrant cultures of their respective locations. They collectively form an international family of schools that nurtures each student's academic and personal development in a progressive, dynamic, and innovative learning environment.
By joining our award-winning team of over 13,000 employees, you can work in state-of-the-art facilities alongside industry-renowned educators and leaders in some of the world's most desirable locations. We invest heavily in our team members who enjoy industry-leading professional development, exceptional career opportunities, and mobility across our group.
Please visit our careers site for further information and to see our latest opportunities - https://careers.inspirededu.com/
About Inspired
Inspired students benefit from the unique global connectivity of premium schools that are anchored in their local communities.
The individuality of every student is unlocked through a holistic curriculum focused on the three pillars - Academics, Sport and Performing Arts, to ensure every student achieves their full potential.
Through this global approach, we aim to inspire and prepare students to be global citizens, ready to seize their exciting futures and truly flourish with the confidence and attitude needed to thrive in their ever-changing world.
Inspired schools are among the highest performing in the world, most are non-selective and are proud to add considerable value to every student. These Schools regularly achieve highly in league table rankings across the world.
Most importantly, Inspired students not only attain outstanding academic results but also graduate to some of the best universities and careers in the world.
The exciting combination of Inspired’s global standings and the King’s College group’s
50+ year history of academic excellence enables students to consistently graduate with exceptional results, with over 90% going on to their first-choice university.
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 self assurance 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.
The Bahamas
The Bahamas is a coral-based archipelago consisting of around 700 islands and islets, and more than 2,000 cays (coral reefs) spread over 100,000 square miles in the Atlantic Ocean.
Since its independence in 1973, The Bahamas has become one of the richest countries in the Americas due to its booming tourism and finance industries.
The country is blessed with immense natural beauty and a wonderful tropical climate, and temperatures rarely drop below 21 degrees Celsius. The Bahamas is politically stable, and the economy has a very competitive tax regime.
King’s College School, The Bahamas is based on the Western Road in Nassau, New Providence. This is the most populous island in The Bahamas containing more than 70% of the total population. Nassau is the island’s capital – it’s the centre of administration, commerce, education, law, and media.
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