Head of Athletic Development
Harrow School
Harrow
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 24 January 2025
Job overview
Working weeks: Part time, term time only, 33 weeks per year plus 3 weeks during the holidays
Working hours: 31.75 hours per week, please see the job description for more details.
The role: The Head of Athletic Development leads the provision of comprehensive athletic development services and programmes for all boys involved in sports and physical development at Harrow. You will align the team that you manage and the athletic provision they provide with Harrow’s vision for sport, catering for all abilities from beginners to those in pursuit of excellence. You and your team will deliver tailored, enjoyable, motivational programmes that propel boys to maximise their health and fitness to surpass their own expectations and achieve nationally recognised award-wining results. For more information please review the job description attached as a separate document to the advertisement .
The skills: This role will suit a candidate with a nationally recognised athletic development coaching and/or other relevant vocational qualification. You will have experience of coaching and inspiring school-age boys to sporting success from beginners to elite/advanced level sports performers. Using your strong interpersonal and public speaking abilities you will communicate compelling messages and build positive relationships with academies and elite pathway providers as well as colleagues throughout the School. Your active involvement in relevant regional, national and international sports organisations will enable you to keep abreast of the latest developments in sports-related health, nutrition and performance. You will connect every aspect that impacts on a boy’s sporting ability such as the medical team, sports coaches, House Masters and clubs to ensure that boys are operating at their best whilst not compromising their health and safety.
The benefits include:
- Free lunch
- 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.
The environment: Harrow School is situated in Harrow on the Hill, northwest London, and is one of the best-known schools in the world. Around 835 boys study at Harrow and live in the School’s 12 boarding houses. 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. The upper end of our many teams (numbering over 20 in each of our major sports) regularly wins county and national championships, and our elite sportsmen have an impressive record of achievement at the highest levels internationally; some go on to enjoy professional careers.
Closing date: 24 January 2025
Applications will be processed as they are received and interviews may take place before the closing date, 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 one of the best-known schools in the world. It is situated on a 324-acre estate in Harrow on the Hill in north-west London, and employees particularly value the School’s beautiful green estate, the positive working environment, and good relationships with their colleagues.
Harrow is an independent boarding secondary school for boys aged 13-18, all of whom live in the School’s 12 boarding houses. It was established by royal charter in 1572 for the education of 30 poor boys in the parish of Harrow on the Hill. This original purpose of offering a life-changing education to boys from every background continues today; in 2023/23, 340 of our 834 pupils benefited from some form of fee assistance.
While Harrow’s rich academic education leads to top examination results and entry to the best universities in the world, our focus is on pastoral excellence with the wellbeing of our boys at its core. The School also offers a host of co-curricular opportunities, allowing each pupil to follow or discover his own particular interest, and boys regularly achieve sporting success at a national level. All this is underpinned by world-class facilities.
Knowing that we are part of a much wider community, our Shaftesbury Enterprise partnership programme is a key element of our curriculum that encourages all Harrovians – pupils and staff – to participate in projects to support young people to flourish in every area of their life, whatever their circumstances.
Harrow also has a family of schools that offer a similar outstanding education across Asia, the Middle East and the USA.
Head Master
Alastair Land
Values and vision
Harrow School believes that the success of students should be measured not 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 answer the questions: what do we belong to, what’s important to us?; why do our collective efforts matter?; what holds us together?
Harrow’s four Values of courage, honour, humility and fellowship aim to help the School make decisions from day to day that mean members of its community behave and perform better. These 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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