deputy head (enrichment) - aug 2025 - shenzhen, china.

Teachanywhere is proudly supporting recruitment for AISL Harrow Schools, a family of schools in China and Asia that look to the 450-year old heritage of Harrow School in the UK to anchor its guiding principles, drive progressive initiatives and inspire a vision that seeks to produce leaders for tomorrow. The schools offer exceptional education to prepare students with diverse background and abilities for a life of learning, leadership, service and personal fulfilment.

Harrow Hong Kong Children School Shenzhen Qianhai (HHKCS)

This school benefits from a truly 21st Century purpose-built campus in Qianhai, Shenzhen, where technology and a cutting-edge approach to teaching and learning provides students with every opportunity to excel, both within and beyond the classroom. Drawing on the significant resources in the Greater Bay Area, the school aims to become an educational hub focusing on STEAM, innovation, and the nurturing of bi-literate, trilingual, students (Cantonese, Mandarin, and English) who will go on to attend the world's very best universities. The school opened in 2023 and caters to the children of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan residents and expatriates aged 2 to 18. The school delivers a Hong Kong curriculum leading to HKDSE and IBDP and Senior secondary level.

Living and working in Shenzhen

Shenzhen is the youngest first tier city in China where the average age of the population is under thirty. Rated as the best air quality of all first tier cities in China, Shenzhen itself is a wonderful planned city filled with Plants and shrubbery on the coast in the warmer southern climbs of China. The excitement of Hong Kong is also not too far away.

Role - full job description available, please ask your Teachanywhere consultant

* The Deputy Head (Enrichment) will demonstrate inspirational senior leadership with the vision, presence and communication skills to develop and enhance the holistic education provision for which Harrow is renowned.

* The role has a whole school brief and will be responsible for the overall implementation, management, and ongoing enhancement of the school's Enrichment offer. This includes developing and improving the School community's Harrow identity, implementing the Harrow Diploma in coordination with the University Guidance Team across academic, pastoral and enrichment strands, Cross-curricular Expeditions (including performing arts and sports), Co-curricular and Super-curricular Activities, Student Leadership and Services. Furthermore, the Deputy Head (Enrichment) will give priority to the communication and promotion of the enrichment offer in the marketing context and oversee the organisation and exemplary delivery of key whole school events, manage the Whole School Calendar

* The postholder will show initiative, drive, competence in linking vision to inter-connected practicalities, and financial awareness for budgeting, staffing and professional development matters, promoting active engagement in the various programmes for all students and staff. The postholder will also have the stamina, relevant applicable knowledge and interpersonal skills to command the respect of a wide range of stakeholders from different cultural backgrounds, and the empathy, sensitivity and humility to engage broadly with a team of staff who will all play a vital role in advancing a widely enriched school life.

* As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, the Deputy Head (Enrichment) plays a full role in the strategic direction of the school, developing, personifying, and ensuring a whole school ethos which promotes the Harrow values and leadership attributes - and, specifically, a life of leadership and service - for all students, staff, governors, parents and the local community.

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Fully qualified with an appropriate education degree, or a Bachelor's degree and a UK PGCE, and QTS (or internationally recognised high-quality equivalents)
• Specific qualifications in outdoor education, coaching, music or sporting disciplines appropriate to the school would be advantageous.

EXPERIENCE:

• A minimum of 10 years' teaching experience and appropriate familiarity with holistic education and the types of broad enrichment programmes typical of UK independent boarding schools.
• Experience with outward bound education and/or mountain-based schools would be an advantage.

COMMITMENT TO TEACHING:

• All Harrow schools are academically rigorous. All staff need to be comfortable guiding highly able students, supporting their progress to the world's best universities.
• The Deputy Head (Enrichment) will be expected to teach academic classes (at a teaching load comparable with other Deputy Heads).

DIGITAL CAMPUS:

• Our teachers must be fully committed to the digital culture of the school and be able use new technologies through innovative, future-focused methodologies.

COMMITMENT TO HOLISTIC EDUCATION:

Learning at Harrow Hong Kong Children School will take place in classrooms, outside classrooms in Shenzhen, Hong Kong, other Chinese provinces and other countries, in high quality indoor learning environments like museum and concert halls, but also very often in the great outdoors. We need a postholder who will thrive in cosmopolitan, rural, Chinese and international environments around the world.

In addition, the Deputy Head (Enrichment) will demonstrate exemplary:

* Evidence of relevant and challenging continuing professional development.
* Levels of professionalism and consideration of the well-being of children.
* Ability to act as an effective and compelling ambassador for the school.
* Great capacity in communicating, being empathetic and vision-focused, synergizing, building teams, consensus, relationships and networks among staff, external coaches, partners and stakeholders with wide-ranging cultural and educational backgrounds.
* Knowledge of the rapidly changing sector internationally.
* Commercial acumen.
* Organisational, administrative and IT skills.
* Respect for all members of the community, irrespective of position, gender, age and ethnicity.
* Previous experience working with students for whom English is not their first language.
* A positive, resilient and solution-focused attitude to working life.
* A flexible approach and a willingness to get involved wherever needed.
* A commitment to safeguarding and to promoting the welfare of children and young people.
The Deputy Head (Enrichment) will be a highly visible leader with the charisma to inspire and motivate the different constituencies which make up the Harrow Hong Kong Children School community.

PERSONAL QUALITIES

• Respect for all members of a school community, irrespective of position, gender, age and ethnic background.
• Passionate about teaching and a strong commitment to holistic education.
• The ability to inspire pupils through a genuine passion for learning and a desire to lead them towards outstanding academic outcomes.
• A positive and solution-focused attitude to working life.
• Highly motivated, ambitious and collaborative.
• Demonstrate empathy, humility and genuinely care about children, taking the time to listen and motivate them.

Salary and Benefits Package

The remuneration package is very generous and includes the following;

• A competitive salary package
• An annual bonus of 10% of salary, subject to appraisal
• Full health insurance coverage for teachers as well as cover for dependents
• Fully-furnished accommodation provided for teachers
• Return Airfare and baggage allowances for teacher and dependents
• 100% remission on tuition fees for up to two (2) dependent children attending the School. 50% remission on tuition fees for 3rd dependent child onward.
• The cost of all working visas, dependents' resident visas and work permits costs paid for by the school