Head of Mandarin and Japanese Department

**Salary**:
Competitive and full package (More salary information will be provided on the interview day.)

**Job type**:
Full Time, Fixed Term

**Start date**:
August 2025

13 January 2025

**Job overview**:
Operating in close association with Harrow School, London, Harrow Bangkok is part of a family of schools in the UK and Asia who share a similar ethos and high standards.

Benefitting from a 35-acre garden campus in one of the world’s most diverse and dynamic cities, Harrow Bangkok is firmly established. A highly respected and consistently popular choice, Harrow Bangkok currently has around 1,800 boys and girls aged 18 months to 18 years, including boarding students from Year 4 upwards.

Graduates achieve world-class examination results and move on to high-ranking universities worldwide following a progressive, rigorous academic education aligned with a strong commitment to developing the whole person.

We are seeking high performing leaders for posts commencing in August 2025. Successful applicants are offered two year renewable contracts with highly competitive terms of employment and outstanding working conditions.

**Experience and qualifications**:

- Appropriate degree, with UK PGCE, or other teaching qualification giving QTS
- Minimum three years’ teaching experience
- Familiarity with the national curriculum of England (plus IGCSE/GCSE and/or A Levels as appropriate)
- Passion for teaching and commitment to educating the whole child
- A high level of professionalism and consideration of the well-being of children
- Recent and consistent involvement in extracurricular activities
- Respect for all members of a school community, irrespective of position, gender, age and ethnic background
- Previous experience working with students for whom English is not their first language
- A positive and solution-focused attitude to working life
- Acceptable police checks (or equivalent) from the country of origin and from all other countries in which the applicant has worked and no question regarding suitability to work with children
- Appropriate references from current and previous employer, corroborated by personal phone calls made to each referee**_
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**How to apply**

**Application deadline**

**Interview Date**

All Harrow Schools is committed to the safety and protection of children. All employees are expected to comply with our School Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy. The safeguarding of our students is at the core of all that we do. Before we can consider an appointment we must be in receipt of:

- Acceptable police checks (or equivalent)from the country of origin and from all other countries in which the applicant has worked
- Appropriate references from current and previous employer, corroborated by personal phone calls made to each referee

**Additional enquiries**

All enquiries should be directed to Harrow Bangkok

More information is available on our website in this
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**About**Harrow International School Bangkok**:
**Harrow International School Bangkok**
- 45 Soi Kosumruamchai 14, Don Muang Subdistrict, Don Muang District
- Bangkok
- 10210
- Thailand

+66 5037222

**Harrow International School Bangkok**

Harrow Bangkok is the original Harrow International School in Asia, founded in 1998. The school is thriving, with its own reputation for educational excellence as one of the leading schools in Thailand and South East Asia; the Harrow name is synonymous with quality.

Our school blends 450 years of Harrow School’s high academic standards, traditions, and service to the community with innovative education in a vibrant Thai setting. We educate around 1,800 students on a beautiful 35-acre garden campus in north Bangkok, with world-class facilities for day students and boarders. The school is all through with students from Early Years to Year 13.

Our results of 59% A*-A at A level and 70% A*-A at IGCSE in 2023 are a testament to our outstanding provision, and every year Harrovians take up places at some of the most distinguished institutions across the world.

**Facilities**

The campus benefits from a range of facilities (all available to staff after hours), which alongside classrooms include floodlit tennis courts, a lake for watersports, a swimming pool, gym and extensive grass pitches.

Our holistic educational philosophy provides extensive super-curricular opportunities for enrichment through the diverse Leadership in Action programme, prioritising leadership development along with skills and personal qualities which help to translate academic potential into meaningful and fulfilling lives after students graduate.

We benefit from close links with Harrow School along with the other schools in the Harrow family. Education at Harrow Bangkok is at the cutting edge, with our commitment to the High Performance Learning philosophy and world class education.

**A sense of community**

Hardworking courteous students with a real zest for life and supportive parents make teaching at