Founding Head at Durham International Schools

You are a qualified, experienced and inspiring educational practitioner looking for career defining opportunity to make your mark. We are establishing what is set to become the most sought after Nursery School in Nairobi. Let’s get together.

About Us

• Taking inspiration from the 600-year legacy of outstanding education in the UK, and recent opening experience of Durham School for Girls Doha, Durham will open in Nairobi in September 2020 with its first phase, Durham International Nursery for children aged 3-6 years.
• Using the UK’s Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), but drawing on other early years pedagogies as well, the School will deliver a range of learning opportunities designed to be engaging, motivating and fun for the children involved, and that develops their independence and confidence.
• Located in a high-end leafy suburb, close to a number of consulates and the United Nations headquarters, Durham International Nursery will cater for up to 200 children, offering generous space for teaching and learning, a swimming pool, outdoor activity areas and indoor spaces for expressive arts and design.
• The wider ambitions of the project are to establish a full Primary and a Secondary school.

About You

• You will have the qualifications, experience and professional drive commensurate with setting up and leading this first-of-a-kind venture.
• The scope of responsibilities, both in terms of practitioner and leader necessary to realise the vision for the Nursery School are considerable and will notably include:
  • Being a highly visible and engaging ambassador outside the School and an inspiring role model within it.
  • Setting the tone and embodying the School’s ethos.
  • Marketing the School and managing the admissions processes for students.
  • Developing and implementing the School’s curriculum, its co-curricular programme and its pastoral care provision.
  • Establishing and implementing school policies and procedures.
  • Recruiting classroom teachers/ specialist teachers and classroom assistants.
  • Ensuring highest of standards are met across all aspects of what the School does.
• Working closely with the stakeholders, you will play an instrumental role in the development of the project’s wider aims to establish a full school, a part of which the Nursery will then become.

Durham School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants will be expected to show evidence of their most up to date child protection screening details including checks with past Employers, local Police Clearance Certificate and/or the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) where relevant. A Teachers Service Commission Number will be required in Kenya.

Job Start Date

The successful applicant will be available to start in Nairobi ideally by Monday 6th April 2020, but candidates whose extant contractual obligations might not allow a start until later should not be deterred from making an application.

Remuneration Package

An attractive remuneration package will be offered in line with the seniority of the post.