Dulwich College (Singapore) is looking to recruit a Strings Assistant (Maternity Cover) to cover a period of maternity leave from Early November 2024 to Early February 2025.
Candidates should have a genuine commitment to child initiated and active learning, putting children first and ensuring that they are challenged as individuals. Recent experience of an inquiry, concept-based approach to curriculum planning is preferable.
Our College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in our care. We follow safe recruitment practices and appointments are subject to vetting including reference checks, and identity and criminal record checks.
Dulwich College (Singapore) offers the highest quality of learning for all our students and our guiding philosophy is that students come first. The Dulwich College International group is committed to drawing upon its position as a global family, with ‘one College, many campuses’ as its mission, enhancing the education of its students and providing its employees with enriching and rewarding careers.
In addition to the responsibilities of a Dulwich College teacher, the post holder will be expected to work with the Head of Junior and Senior Schools. They will:
- Be able to play a bowed string instrument (violin/viola/cello) to a high standard.
- Support the Lead Strings Teacher with tuning violins/violas/cellos at the start of the lessons.
- Support the Teacher and help individual children with their string technique and note reading skills throughout the lessons.
- Be able to lead and work independently with small groups of children to develop their string technique.
- Be able to coach small string chamber music groups of more advanced musicians in the Junior School.
- To help maintain the Colleges string instrument stock and change strings when required.
- Help organise and distribute books and ensemble music required for the strings programme.
All other duties commensurate with the role.
Along with the requirements of a Dulwich College teacher, the post holder will:
- Be organised, prepared, efficient, independent, goal and target driven, perceptive, and have a can-do attitude.
- Have the clear ability to meet deadlines ahead of schedule, and collaborate in a calm, controlled, considered, and measured approach;
- Have a collegial approach with colleagues across the College and in particular in the Music Department;
- Have a strong background in string pedagogy;
- Have experience teaching beginners in a mixed ability classroom;
- Have a willingness to teach whole class string pedagogy.
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Having a diverse staff body is a great strength to us as a College and one of the ways that we can help students achieve our College Mission of Living Worldwise. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, pregnancy or socio-economic status. We support family-friendly flexible working opportunities, where operational needs allow. Staff recruited locally are subject to terms and conditions of service according to local employment law.
Dulwich College (Singapore) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all the students in our care and expects all applicants to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices which are aligned to the recommendations of the International Task Force on Child Protection. We hold ourselves to a high standard of effective recruiting practices with specific attention to child protection. All appointments are subject to an interview, identity checks, criminal record checks, and successful references.
CPE Registration Number: 201027137D. Period of Registration: 09 January 2024 to 08 January 2028
