Package Description:
Due to an internal promotion, we are seeking to recruit a full-time, permanent Director of Music to commence in post from August 2025. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, innovative and inspirational professional who has the aspiration, integrity and ability to support, promote and develop music across the school and achieve the Headmaster’s vision for the future.
The successful candidate will be an ambitious professional with a proven track record in subject leadership, progress and attainment. The Director of Music will be able to demonstrate a sheer love of music and be committed to nurturing talent and implementing educational excellence across Strathallan School.
Music at Strathallan
Music is integral to life at Strathallan. When walking around at Strathallan in term time, music is regularly heard drifting across the campus in a variety of forms and from many locations – practice rooms, classrooms, Chapel, studios, boarding houses, common rooms and halls. A student roll of c. 590 enjoy 400 individual weekly music lessons with participation reaching nearly 70% of pupils. Twenty seven ensembles practice regularly and staff take part in some of these alongside pupils, notably the School Choir, which as a choir is as much for fun as it is for performance. Music is played, rehearsed and enjoyed, often for its own sake or for its social and restorative benefits as much as it is for performances, Associated Board exams or major concerts. Music lifts the spirit and gives voice and expression to our feelings and emotions and at Strathallan, it is supported, encouraged and celebrated precisely because of these very human needs.
Application Process
Please see the Job Brief for further details.
Further details of the School are available on the School’s Website www.strathallan.co.uk
Closing date: 12 noon on Friday 21 March 2025.
Interviews will be held week commencing 24 March 2025.
If you would like further information on the role, please contact recruitment@strathallan.co.uk
About Strathallan School
Set within 153 acres of beautiful Perthshire campus, Strathallan School has been doing education differently for over 100 years. Strathallan’s reputation as a leading co-educational boarding and day school is longstanding, attracting pupils from across the UK and around the world with an outstanding programmes in academics, sports and the arts.
There are around 600 pupils of ages 5-18, divided between Strathallan Prep School and Strathallan Senior School. There are three senior Girls' Houses and the four senior Boys' Houses and a junior boarding house, and approximately 65% of pupils are full boarders.
The School is situated in the beautiful Earn Valley on a self-contained wooded estate of 153 acres at the edge of the village of Forgandenny. Perth is the nearest town some ten minutes away by car and access to the motorways puts Edinburgh (45 mins), Glasgow (1 hr) and the Scottish Highlands within easy reach. The school is well-resourced with a mixture of traditional and modern buildings.