Harrow School - Director of Sport

Location: North West London
School: Harrow School
Type: Full-time
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Summary

The School seeks to appoint a Director of Sport from April 2026 (or September 2026 for the right candidate).

Detail

The School seeks to appoint a full-time Director of Sport for April 2026, (or September 2026 for the right candidate). This post comes with a generous package including: Rent-free accommodation; Access to an education fund and Health cover provided free of charge for you and at a reduced rate for any members of your immediate family.

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.

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.

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

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

The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All successful applicants must be willing to undergo enhanced child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with any past employer and the Disclosure and Barring Service, and it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.