Job Description

Harrow School

Harrow

Salary:

Harrow has its own salary scale and many other benefits

Job type:

Full Time, Permanent

Apply by:

17 October 2025

Job overview

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January 2026

(or April 2026 for the right candidate)

The School seeks to appoint a full-time Director of Sport from January 2026. This post comes with a generous package: Rent-free accommodation provided on the Hill; Access to a generous education fund for any children you may have; Health cover provided free of charge for you and at a reduced rate for any members of your immediate family that you may wish to add.

Sport at Harrow:

At Harrow we make sport fun for our boys and encourage their active and enthusiastic participation, at the same time producing highly motivated sportsmen who are good role models. As a consequence, sport is thriving at the School and we have an international reputation as a centre of sporting excellence. Many Harrovians go on to enjoy professional careers in sport.

Over 70 members of teaching staff, 25 Masters-in-Charge (MiC) of Sports and more than 60 professional coaches deliver our broad and diverse games programme. In addition to this we employ a Rugby Professional, Soccer Professional and a Cricket Professional. We offer a different main team game in each term and play a variety of other sports appropriate to the time of year. Our major sports are rugby union, football and cricket, but we are increasingly strong at athletics, swimming, tennis and squash. Fixtures take place mainly on Saturday afternoons, and our extensive and hotly contested inter-House sports programme engages boys in all 12 Houses in varied competitions. Unique occasions, like the annual cricket match against Eton at Lord's, provide memorable highlights in our sporting calendar.

There is a timetabled Physical Education programme for Shell boys, which runs alongside the formal games programme for all boys. Boys are also able to choose Sports Science at A level and Physical Education at GCSE, for which the uptake is particularly healthy.

The Role:

We require a well-qualified Director of Sport to be responsible for: the leadership, management, development and coaching of sport at Harrow; the integration of sport into our academic and wider co-curricular programme; promoting wide participation in and a lifelong love of sport among boys; and helping those with high sporting potential to achieve excellence. The successful application must also be keen to contribute to the wider life of the School in a full-boarding environment.

The successful candidate will also be required to teach academic PE and Sports Science to GCSE and A level.

Support and training to achieve Qualified Teacher Status can be offered if required. We occasionally appoint Masters with outstanding qualities and a good degree who do not have a formal teaching qualification.

Harrow has its own salary scale and many other benefits.

Applications will be processed as they are received, so early applications are recommended.

Please visit the School's website at https://www.harrowschool.org.uk/contact/work-at-harrow

Or click on the 'Apply on School website' button for more detailed information about the role, and to complete an online application form

Closing date: Friday 17 October 2025.

The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant must be willing to undergo child protection screening including checks with any past employer and the DBS.

Equality, diversity and inclusion are values that are important to us at Harrow. We believe in diversity of thought and actively welcome anyone regardless of their background to bring their valuable and relevant skills to our community.

About

Harrow School

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Harrow School

5 High Street, Harrow on the Hill
Middlesex
HA1 3HP
United Kingdom

+44 20 8872 8000

Harrow School is situated in Harrow on the Hill in north-west London. The School is located on a 324-acre estate which encompasses much of Harrow on the Hill and is one of the best-known schools in the world. Around 837 boys study at Harrow and live in the School's 12 boarding houses. Employees particularly value the School's beautiful green estate, the positive working environment, and good relationships with their colleagues.



Harrow School is an independent boarding secondary school for boys aged 13-18. It was established, by royal charter, in 1572 during the reign of Elizabeth I. It is operated as a Royal Charter Corporation, which is a charitable trust whose trustees are the school's governors. The school licenses the Harrow name to a number of schools in Asia.

Head Master

Alastair Land

Values and vision

Harrow School believes that the success of students should not be measured 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 in order to answer the questions: "what do we belong to?", "what's important to us?", "why do our collective efforts matter?", and "what holds us together?".



Harrow's values of courage, honour, humility and fellowship aim to help the school to make decisions from day-to-day that mean members of its community behave and perform better. These four 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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