Job Description

Wimbledon High School

Merton

Salary:

Competitive plus benefits

Job type:

Full Time, Permanent

Apply by:

22 September 2025

Job overview

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Wimbledon High School is looking for an experienced Rowing Coach to play a key role within our ambitious rowing programme.


You will support the Head of Rowing (HoR) with the overall running of the boat club. You will set the J15s squad training programmes, organize school holiday rowing and training camps, as well as provide inspirational coaching that facilitates the development of our young rowers. In the absence of the HoR, you will also be confident in your ability to run our thriving boat club.


We are looking for a strong and inspirational leader with previous experience of coaching rowing within a school. You will also need a clean driving licence. Having a minibus certification and experience of trailer towing boats is desirable, as you will be assisting with transport to the boat club and competition venues. Coaching qualifications and experience on the Tideway is desirable, but not essential.

About Wimbledon High School

Since 1880, Wimbledon High School GDST has been educating girls to go out into the world and make a difference. Our acclaimed pastoral programme GROW, enriching co-curricular opportunities, character-forging partnerships and our 'playful scholarship' approach to academic life make for a compelling environment where every individual can flourish and be herself. Located in the heart of Wimbledon, we are less than 20 minutes from central London.

Benefits

As part of the Girls' Day School Trust, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:Competitive salaries and pay progression Access to extensive professional development opportunities GDST Flexible Pension Plan (Details from: https://workplace.aviva.co.uk/gdst/) Training grants for qualifications 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 and an application form please click the apply button.

The closing date is 9.00am on Monday 22nd September 2025

Interviews will take place on Monday 29th September 2025

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 including online searches will apply to this post. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified individuals. To be eligible for employment, candidates must provide proof of their right to work in the UK.

About

Wimbledon High School

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Wimbledon High School

Mansel Road
London
SW19 4AB
United Kingdom

+44 20 8971 0900

An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.



We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour - and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.



A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.

Our school aims:

Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.

Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.



We will do this, across the school by:


Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness

Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder

Promoting excellent teaching and learning

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