Head of Arts

**Salary**:
As detailed, plus HoD Allowance

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

5 February 2025

**Job overview**:
Do you see education and learning as a way of life rather than just a job? Are you a _‘risk-taker’ _with a healthy balance between purposeful intensity and a good sense of humour? If so, then St Gilgen International School is looking to recruit a committed and enthusiastic **Head of Arts (Music Specialist, potentially with a performing arts / drama background as well)** to contribute to the future growth of our amazing school.

The StGIS Arts department values all kinds of Performing, Creative, Expressive Arts and Artists, who contribute to fostering a lifelong love of the Arts and learning, as a force for positive change.

With this statement at the centre of our thinking, we surround this Arts vision with the StGIS Mission, Vision and Values. As a passionate community we inspire our students to discover their strengths and develop a lifelong love of learning so they can make a positive impact in this world. We do this by offering excellence in care, education and activities. Passion, Integrity and Excellence drives us. We enact the mission through a set of values and qualities including:

- Encouraging commitment to the Arts.
- Developing integrity of the self and respect for the Arts.
- Encouraging challenge and resilience through active participation, process and product.
- Fostering self-confidence, reflection and balance of the individual.
- To be creative and collaborative within the Arts programme.
- Encouraging students to be self-managers.
- Develop students' understanding, skills, knowledge and appreciation of the Arts.
- Advance the education of young people within a global mindset and encourage cultural diversity through the performance and study of the Arts.
- To celebrate success.

We believe that through our programme - which is underpinned by these mission, values and profile statements - students learn that there are diverse and equally valuable ways of conceptualising, researching, performing, creating, perceiving, expressing and using the Arts to understand that culture, people and societies are different, and that diversity is good. Students who learn to value art and culture through a global mindset can become more compassionate citizens. The Arts are a wonderful conduit for students to develop their understanding of humanity.

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**About**St. Gilgen International School**:
**St. Gilgen International School**
- Ischlerstrasse 13, St. Gilgen
- 5340
- Austria

+43 22 720 259

An education of the highest quality is the greatest gift that parents can give to their children. The next global generation will need exceptional academic and intellectual creativity to take on positions of leadership and address the many challenges that face our world. Given this, it is vitally important that the leading schools in the 21st Century provide a genuinely holistic international education to prepare learners for the responsibilities they will face in their lives. St Gilgen is such a school and we will not shirk this challenge. We are dedicated to blending academic excellence with a richness of opportunity beyond the classroom. As a boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 9 to 18, we are committed to providing a Total Curriculum.

Our wonderful learning environment set in the mountains and lakes south of Salzburg inspires students to a level of remarkable creativity. We provide a plethora of opportunities in a learning community which rewards ambition, enthusiasm and hard work for staff and students alike