Job Description

Job Specification

Assistant Head

Assistant Head

Required: September 2025, October 2025 or January 2026

Contract: 12 months fixed term with potential opportunity for extension

Hours: Full time

Salary: 63,639 per annum dependent on experience

The role

This is an opportunity for an experienced or aspiring Senior Leader to play a key role to support in leading a successful and thriving school.

You will be an instrumental part of the Senior Leadership team, and will have an Academic focus, supporting our students to obtain the best outcomes possible for them.

You will have strong management skills and will be comfortable in leading a group of Middle Leaders, overseeing curriculum and assessment and ensuring outstanding Teaching and Learning principles across the whole school.

The successful candidate will have a strategic mindset and will have a vision for the continuation of our excellent academic provision, including overseeing how our students with additional needs are supported, and focusing on inclusivity.

You will work alongside wider SLT to translate the vision for the school into agreed objectives and operational and business plans.

Experience of the independent sector and girls' only education is highly desirable. Experience up to at least Head of Department level is essential.

Why join Brighton Girls?

As a founding school of the Girls' Day School Trust, Brighton Girls already has a significance in the history of girls' education and a new future-focused vision aims to build on this in unique ways which will see the fusion of the classroom and the community. Drawing on the school's location in the heart of the city of Brighton & Hove, the school's identity is as eclectic, enterprising, and creative as the city itself.

Benefits include:

Competitive salaries and pay progression Access to extensive professional development opportunities Training grants for qualifications Generous pension schemes Free life assurance benefit A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans A Cycle to Work scheme Competitive terms and conditions of employment

For further details about this opportunity and to apply please click the apply button.

The closing date for applications is Friday 30th May at 9am.

Interviews will take place w/c 2nd June.

We reserve the right to interview candidates prior to the closing date should applications be received from exceptional candidates.

The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.

Vacancy ID :

040587

Closing Date :

30-May-2025

Contact Person :

Claudia Flamson

Contact Email :

hr@brightongirls.gdst.net

Contact Number :

01273 280 280