Head of Economics
The King's School Canterbury
Kent
- New
- Salary:
- Competitive salary plus excellent benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 11 October 2024
Job overview
King’s School is seeking a qualified, passionate, and motivated graduate to lead our Economics department. This is a significant role within the school, as the current Head of Economics transitions to a new role as Assistant Head. For the right candidate, there is potential to lead our expanding Business department as well.
This is a perfect opportunity for a dynamic individual who combines academic excellence, strong communication skills, and a genuine passion for Economics. The successful candidate will have a deep understanding of how to make the subject accessible and engaging for a broad range of students. Experience in stretching high achievers, particularly those preparing for Oxbridge and US university applications, is essential.
The role involves shaping a long-term vision for the Economics department in alignment with the wider priorities of the school.
While prior experience as a Head of Department is not required, candidates must possess leadership qualities, teaching expertise, and strong administrative skills. Flexibility, patience, and a sense of humour are essential, and the ability to teach Business would be advantageous.
Economics at King’s: Our Economics and Business department is vibrant and successful, comprising six full-time staff with diverse backgrounds, including careers in business and finance. Together, we work towards achieving outstanding examination results and contribute to the wider school community through activities like coaching sports, running Young Enterprise, and offering internships.
We currently teach Edexcel A level Economics and the Business BTEC National Diploma, with over 150 Economics students and 35 Business students across the school. The Economics department has consistently achieved over 80% A*-B results over the past five years.
Enrichment is a key focus, with activities such as the Economics Society, internship programs, essay competitions, and international field trips. Recent excursions include trips to New York, visits to Google, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley, and local business visits in Kent.
Why King’s? At King’s, you'll find a well-resourced department, small class sizes, and a collaborative teaching environment. Teachers also play an active role in pastoral care by leading tutor groups and contributing to the school’s rich co-curricular programme. Our boarding school offers a supportive and engaging atmosphere, where teachers and students alike thrive in their personal and academic pursuits.
If you require more information, please contact the Head of Economics and Business, Jonathan Pope, for an informal discussion: jhp@kings-school.co.uk
For further information and to apply online, please visit the job opportunities page of our website.
Closing date: 11 October 2024.
Interviews will take place in the following week.
The King’s School is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process which is in line with the statutory Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates.
All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
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About The King's School Canterbury
THE KING’S SCHOOL is a leading independent co-educational boarding school, situated in the heart of the historic cathedral city of Canterbury in Kent. The precincts of Canterbury Cathedral are part of a world heritage site, a centre of pilgrimage and study, and host to over one million visitors each year from many different cultures. This international dimension deeply influences the life of the city and the school.
The origins of King’s date back to the arrival of St Augustine in 597 AD and the school’s Christian tradition remains at its heart although pupils and staff subscribe to many different faiths and beliefs and none. Embracing this diversity, there is a desire to foster fairness, tolerance, courage, perseverance, mutual respect and understanding. The Benedictine tradition of developing mind, body and spirit within a community given to hospitality still influences the life of the Cathedral and the school lives out its life in that context. Thus, academic excellence and scholarship take their place alongside the school’s commitment to physical and cultural endeavour. Sport is strong, with a number of boys’ and girls’ teams at national level. Music and drama are outstanding, both having the finest traditions and producing performances of the highest standards. King’s Week, the school’s own Festival of Creative and Performing Arts, offers well over 100 events and attracts thousands of visitors each summer.
The curriculum at King’s is based upon strong academic roots. It emphasises and relies upon what is best in traditional school education: scholarly excellence, supported by a caring pastoral and tutorial system, and a wide-ranging co-curricular programme. The curriculum is continually adapting and reacting to the changing demands of modern education: new subjects are added, new teaching techniques adopted, and there is an increasing awareness of the need to provide programmes of study that match individual needs and skills. The school does not gauge its success by exam results alone but by broader measures of educational attainment and personal development, helping pupils to achieve their potential and equipping them to play an active and responsible role in society as young adults.
Our family of schools comprises The King’s School, Canterbury (KSC), The Junior King’s School (JKS), and the International College, all in Canterbury, with an international school in Shenzhen opened in September 2019. At KSC there are over 860 pupils, split 50-50 boys-girls, of whom about 80% are boarders. There are six boys’ boarding houses, seven girls’ boarding houses and three mixed day houses. Junior King’s occupies a fine rural site on the banks of the River Stour, in Sturry, two miles from Canterbury. There are over 350 pupils at Junior King’s of whom 20% are boarders.
The King’s School occupies various sites around the Cathedral and its precincts. Many teaching departments and the majority of houses are in the beautiful ancient buildings around Green Court and Mint Yard on the north side of the Cathedral. To the east of the Cathedral the St Augustine’s Abbey site is home to five boarding houses, a medieval refectory, and the magnificent neo-Gothic school library containing over 30,000 items. There are two major sites for sport: Birley’s, and the Recreation Centre, both within walking distance of the school, with rowing at Westbere Lakes in Sturry. The King’s School Malthouse Theatre opened in April 2019 with a 350-seat auditorium, studios, teaching, dance and rehearsal spaces.
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