Head of Music

Company Description

The British School of Kuwait (BSK) has been a leader in providing British international education for over 45 years in Kuwait. Serving a diverse community of students from over 70 nationalities, BSK offers a rich multicultural environment with English as the medium of instruction. The school follows the National Curriculum of England, leading to acclaimed qualifications such as IGCSE, GCSE, AS, and A Levels. With an extensive curriculum and dynamic co-curricular programmes in arts, sports, leadership, and community service, BSK nurtures students to excel academically and personally. Graduates regularly achieve placements at world-renowned universities and become leaders in their fields.

Role Description

This is a full-time on-site role for the Head of Music at The British School of Kuwait, located in Salwa, Kuwait. The Head of Music will lead and manage the music department, oversee the curriculum and teaching standards, and design engaging music education programmes. Responsibilities include coordinating music teaching, planning and directing concerts and events, promoting student engagement with music, and managing music resources effectively. The role also involves mentoring and supporting staff, collaborating with other departments, and fostering a positive and inclusive atmosphere for musical development.

Title: Head of Music

Responsible to: Principal

Duties

• Development Plans . To hold over-arching control of medium term plans, schemes of work and lesson plans from reception to Year 13. The aim of this control is to enable smooth transition across the Key Stages.
• Documentation . To ensure that medium term plans, and scheme of work that are drawn from them, are held in the relevant sections of the network file tree accessible to Primary and Secondary members of staff.
• Schemes of Work . To assist the Subject Coordinators in ensuring that the subject teams create, review and refine schemes of work which include the appropriate National Curriculum, Ministry of Education and/or Examination Board content, provide clear progression for students and adhere fully to the Teaching and Learning Policy.
• Resource Management . To assist the Subject Coordinators in coordinating the careful selection, budgeting, requisitioning, storage, maintenance and use of appropriate resources to support the curricular and extracurricular work of the subject teams.
• Resource Development . To assist the Subject Coordinators in coordinating the creation and ongoing development by subject team members of high quality learning resources in the accepted BSK style and format.
• Compliance . To assist the Subject Coordinators in ensuring full implementation, within the subject team, of the Assessment, Reporting and Recording Policy; Secondary Marking Policy; Homework Policy; Secondary Homework Procedure; Rewards and Sanctions Policy; Gifted and Talented Policy; Display Policy; Standards of Written Work; and all other applicable policies, procedures and standards.
• Lesson Quality . To assist the Subject Coordinators in observing subject team members’ lessons, appraising their performance and providing or facilitating such training or support as may be necessary to ensure that lesson planning and delivery meets or exceeds the minimum BSK standard defined within the Teaching and Learning Policy.
• Subject Meetings . To lead the Primary and Secondary Music teams by running effective cross-phase meetings and ensuring the timely distribution of suitable meeting reports to subject team members and both the primary and Secondary Leadership Teams.
• Liaison . To assist the Subject Coordinators in liaising effectively on behalf of the subject team with the Examinations Officer, Senior Teachers, Department Coordinators, Assistant Head Teacher (Timetable/SIMS), Head Teacher or Principal.

Interested in learning more?

We welcome informal conversations with prospective candidates. If you would like to explore this opportunity or discuss how your experience could align with BSK, please reach out to initiate a confidential discussion.