Music Graduate Assistant

About the job

Required from: September 2024 – July 2025

Contract term: Fixed Term Contact (with potential to extend)

Hours: Full Time, Term Time Only plus 5 days and INSET

Salary: FTE £24,618 (Pro-rata £20,515) per annum

The Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented Music Graduate Assistant to join our thriving Music Department. The role will involve providing support to the Director of Music in a range of ways and working with the Drama department.

You will need excellent interpersonal, administrative, and organisational skills, with a flexible approach, demonstrating the ability to work both independently and as part of a team. You will have a good level of musicianship coupled with a working knowledge of different musical genres and the ability to support small ensembles.  You will be passionate about supporting students to develop and achieve their best.

Music Department

Music is a popular and successful subject at Blackheath High School. We firmly believe all our lessons should be inclusive and the breadth of curriculum allows students to experience musical genres such as Gamelan, West African Drumming, Rap, Pop Music and a variety of Western Classical Music.

About the School

Founded in 1880 by the Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST), the UK’s leading network of independent girls’ schools, Blackheath High School is a selective school for girls aged 3–18.  We are fortunate to be located on the edge of the stunning Heath and within easy reach of historic Greenwich and Canary Wharf. Following an £18 million investment, our new Senior School opened in 2019, and has been provided with state-of-the-art facilities to ensure that our school environment matches the excellent standard of education we provide.

There are many good reasons to work with us. Blackheath High School has a real sense of community, and you’ll be part of it. You’ll be part, too, of the wider GDST family and you’ll be in the company of some of the best and brightest people in independent education. We also offer a variety of benefits, such as:

• Competitive salaries and pay progression

• Access to extensive professional development opportunities
• Training grants for qualifications
• Generous pension schemes
• Free life assurance benefit
• A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
• Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A Cycle to Work scheme
• Competitive terms and conditions of employment

For further details please click the apply button or contact Sharon Read at s.read@bla.gdst.net 

Closing date for applications: 10 May 2024 at 12 noon.

Interviews to be held on: 17 May 2024.

We reserve the right to assess and interview candidates prior to the closing date and encourage early applications.

The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.

The GDST are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.