Bursar
Headington Rye Oxford - Senior School
Oxfordshire
- New
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 30 January 2025
Job overview
On a beautiful 34-acre site in the inspirational city of Oxford, Headington Rye Oxford offers a forward-thinking and contemporary education for girls and boys aged 3-11 and girls aged 11-18. Following the recent merger of Headington School with Rye St Antony, Headington Rye Oxford now offers its combination of academic excellence, co-curricular opportunity and expert pastoral care to 1,100 pupils.
The Head and Governors are now seeking a Bursar to succeed Richard Couzens who will step down after eleven years of dedicated service. This role presents an exciting opportunity to shape the future of one of the UK’s most strategic and successful schools. The appointee will provide strong and forward-looking financial and operational leadership, ensuring that Headington Rye continues to have robust finances and outstanding support services whilst anticipating and preparing for the future needs of the School.
The successful candidate will be a collaborative and flexible leader, possessing the organisational abilities and interpersonal skills to lead a high level of strategic and operational delivery in a complex environment. They will be familiar with business priorities in organisations of relevant complexity, have proven managerial capabilities, and deep empathy with the values and ethos of the School. Financial qualifications are desirable but not essential. Headington Rye Oxford welcomes candidates from school, commercial, non-profit and public sector settings.
To download further information on the role or to apply, please visit https://candidates.perrettlaver.com/vacancies/ quoting reference number 7693. The closing date for applications is 08:30 GMT on Thursday 30 January 2025.
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About Headington Rye Oxford - Senior School
- Headington Rye Oxford - Senior School
- Headington Road, Oxford
- Oxfordshire
- OX3 7TD
- United Kingdom
Headington Rye Oxford is a vibrant and welcoming school set in 23 acres of playing fields and grounds. In an environment where individuals come first, Headington Rye Oxford is renowned for its commitment to academic excellence, pastoral support and an impressive range of extra-curricular opportunities.
The School has roots as Headington since 1915 and as Rye St Antony since 1930, with the two schools merging in 2024. Both schools were founded to offer girls a contemporary education fit to prepare them for the world at the time. Today, pupils at Headington Rye Oxford face very different challenges and we aim to enable them to develop the thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills they need to help explore their potential and achieve more than they thought possible. Headington Rye Oxford is home to more than 1,000 pupils comprising 45 nationalities, including approximately 200 boarders and 250 pupils in the Preparatory School. We have undertaken several exciting building projects in the last 15 years including a Theatre, Sixth Form Centre, Music School, Dance and Fitness Centre and a state-of-the-art Library. More recently, we opened our new Creativity & Innovation Centre, ‘The Hive’, in September 2021 and a brand new Food and Nutrition Centre, featuring state-of-the art teaching kitchens and a mezzanine demonstration kitchen, in April 2022. A new boathouse on the River Thames for the School's championship winning boatclub was completed in 2023.
Our goal is that each pupil will achieve beyond their expectations and become independent in thinking and learning. Pupils can choose from around 30 subjects in the Sixth Form, allowing each individual the flexibility to follow the curriculum most suitable for them. Academically, Headington Rye Oxford is consistently one of the top performing schools in the UK.
In 2023, 58% of GCSE grades were 8/9 and 75 per cent of all grades were 7 or higher. A Level results were similarly impressive, with 49 per cent of results at grades A* or A and 75 per cent at grades A*- B.
We believe that a truly excellent education is about more than academic achievement alone, so we encourage every pupil to take advantage of the impressive range of around 150 clubs and societies. Pupils have the opportunity to have a go at everything from Street Dance and football to Duke of Edinburgh and Robotics. We are one of only a handful of girls’ schools nationwide to have a thriving Combined Cadet Force and we consistently rank as the top girls’ rowing school in the UK.
We are proud of the excellent pastoral care at Headington Rye Oxford. Every teacher is involved, either as a tutor or as part of the experienced and dedicated boarding staff. Tutors are supported by Heads of Year and Section, with the aim of ensuring that every pupil receives support, advice and encouragement, as required. Our thriving boarding community, comprised of five houses, enriches the educational opportunity and experience for all. Pupils have the advantage of choosing from full, weekly or half-weekly boarding and all enjoy the benefits of an outstanding programme of boarders’ activities and events.
Headmistress
Caroline Jordan
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