Yarm School - Director of Music

Summary

We are looking to appoint a Director of Music who will continue to strengthen the School’s musical reputation and ensure that pupils have the highest levels of academic teaching and extracurricular opportunities, to commence academic year 25/026.

Detail

The role is to commence for the Academic year 25/26, which is Tuesday 26th August 2025. The successful candidate will lead the department including the current team of staff and VMTs. Whilst the Director of Music’s primary responsibility is providing a curricular and extracurricular musical programme for the Senior School (Years 7-13), the role also involves overseeing the progression of music across the whole school, working closely with the Head of Prep Music. A desire to embrace and develop our partnership projects within the community is an important part of the Director of Music role.

The candidate appointed as Director of Music will have an important role in determining and delegating the areas of responsibility attached to the departmental management positions of Assistant Director of Music and Head of Prep Music.

Please review the full job description on our website vacancy page. Application forms, that can be downloaded from the vacancy page, should be submitted to: head@yarmschool.org addressed to the Headmaster, Dr Huw Williams, as soon as possible and no later than 12 noon on Wednesday 6th November 2024.

Applicants may be called to a longlist interview (via online video meeting) during w/c 11th November. Shortlist interviews (in person at Yarm) will take place during w/c 18th November.

The school reserves the right to interview before the closing date if appropriate to the context of the field. Early applications are therefore very much encouraged.

Further Information

https://www.yarmschool.org/about-us/vacancies/