Director of Music

Salary: Stamford has its own salary scale, and remuneration will depend on experience.

Education Phase: Through School

Job Role: Teacher

Working Pattern: Full-Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: Thursday, 20th March 2025

Interview Date: Week commencing 31st March 2025

About Us

Stamford School is a large, co-educational Day and Boarding school for boys and girls aged 2 to 18. Established in 1532, it has a prestigious heritage, but everything we do is focused on preparing young people to lead happy and fulfilling lives in the 21st century.

We strive to provide a stimulating and challenging curriculum that inspires intellectual curiosity and encourages a love of learning. Our students leave us with a flexible, adaptable mindset and an approach to learning that equips them to face the challenges and opportunities of their future.

We also believe that a student’s emotional well-being is paramount to their overall success. Our Pastoral care system is embedded in our daily school life, ensuring that every student feels valued, supported, and understood.

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Director of Music to oversee and manage the academic and co-curricular music provision at Stamford School. Music is one of our core co-curricular pillars here at Stamford, ensuring that our students can discern their pathway academically as well as developing key transferable skills outside the classroom.

The Director of Music will be responsible for oversight of both the academic and co-curricular music, providing a vision for the development of music and ensuring that the department continues to be known both locally and further afield for its high standards of teaching and performance.

The Director of Music will be pivotal in ensuring that the highest standards of progress and achievement are consistently embedded across both the academic and co-curricular strands of the Music department. This will involve enabling and encouraging high levels of participation in music across both Senior and Junior Schools, managing a large and talented department, and leading from the front, both in the classroom and in our highly regarded concerts and recital series.

This post will suit a teacher and musician who can enthuse and engage with pupils of all ages and abilities, who knows when to take the spotlight and when to step back, who understands how Music fits into the life of a busy school, and who can lead and manage both staff and pupils to achieve the highest possible standards.

The successful candidate will have experience of teaching in a school of similar standing and will have the ability to motivate and enthuse both staff and pupils alike. He or she will have proven ability to direct choirs and other ensembles at all levels from Key Stage 2 to Sixth Form, drawing on a range of techniques and strategies, and demonstrating a thorough knowledge of appropriate repertoire.

The appointee will possess the skills required to organise a complex department and provide the necessary opportunities for music whilst ensuring smooth relations with the rest of the school. He or she will also have the personal qualities necessary to lead and manage a large department of able colleagues. The new Director will be able to provide new initiatives and ideas to raise the profile of music, whilst understanding the role that a music department plays in a busy school.

It is likely that the successful candidate will hold a good honours degree in music, be a competent keyboard player and computer literate.

Stamford Schools are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

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