Sports Director (Job Vacancy)

ABOUT US

Founded in 2002, Global Schools Foundation is a Singapore-headquartered, community-oriented education institution whose mission is to cultivate and nurture young minds into global leaders of the future and is significantly contributing to achieving significant learning outcomes for every child. In the last two decades, the Foundation has grown to 62 campuses in 11 countries. Our international schools are spread across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia.

Global Schools Foundation (GSF) is an education pioneer with a network of premier international schools. The Foundation schools infuse the best educational approaches from around the globe into a unique pedagogy which imparts value-based learning that goes beyond academics. The 62 GSF schools are spread across 11 countries in ASEAN & South Asia, Middle East and India which provide world class education to over 45,000 students from 70+ nationalities. The schools offer various. curricula, including IB, Cambridge and CBSE.

JOB PURPOSE

Director, Sports is overall incharge for creating sports excellence, sports culture and sports facilities across GSF Schools. The role holder is responsible for directing and overseeing co-curricular sports provision across all campuses in India , overseeing the main areas of Sports events, Sports Academy Leadership, extra-curricular sports provision, facilities and resources and budget management. The role holder will also work with the Principals and PE staff responsible for the extracurricular activity programmes across all schools to ensure a collaborative approach to shared use of facilities and organisation of sports events.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership

Creates a global vision for sports development, performance, and participation for GSF Schools in India .

Develops goals, objectives and strategies for the development of Sports culture and activities across all schools under GSF

Leads the smooth organisation of sports events both onsite and offsite for all schools.

Provides guidance to the Academic function for all aspects related to sports and physical education such as curriculum planning, lesson planning, resources required, budgeting for events etc.

Act as the face of Sports representing GSF at various forums

Financial

Collaborates with the Finance function in developing relevant financial budgets for the function, and proactively tracks performance against the metrics to ensure fiscal control in the function

Works closely with Finance and operations to maintain financial oversight and effective use of Budgets

Functional

Creates long and short term plans for sports in GSF schools

Identifies and ties up with leading Sports Academies all across the world for providing state of the art facilities for GSF school teams

Coordinates the development of Gold Squads for GSF schools worldwide

Designs and delivers annual Physical Education priorities and organizational strategies in line with the organization’s academic plans

Oversees and manages the sports programmes, practices and policies globally for the various curriculums and campuses both during and after school hours as well as on weekends

Ensure clear and regular communication of sporting events and initiatives to key staff members and across the GSH community

Interaction

Work closely with Principals, Heads of Schools, Sports Coordinators and teachers to plan sports activities, events and curriculum

Works with the Projects teams worldwide & Geos to help develop sports facilities in GSF Schools

Ensures active interschool (national & international) competitions for GSF sports teams worldwide including competitions among GSF Schools

Works closely with the Principals to understand the curriculums planned for the year

Provides support to the various campuses in preparation for the curriculum inspections

Builds strong networks and maintains good working relationships with internal and external partners to keep abreast of the current Academic & Sports climate and macroeconomic trends

People Focus

Leads the recruitment, selection, orientation, and training of sports coaches and PE Teachers in the function across all brands

Collaborates proactively with Human Resource to continuously increase competency within the function to meet future organisations needs through the development and recruitment of talent

Builds and manages high performing teams within the function by providing leadership, role clarity and training

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Minimum Qualifications

Masters/ Bachelors degree in Physical Education/ Sports or equivalent from a recognized university

Min 10 years of Experience in Sports/ Physical Education

Experience

Should have headed Sports and Physical Education function for either a large international chain of schools or should have headed sports function for a prestigious international school.

Should have experience in dealing with schools that have participated in international sports competitions

Should have experience working with prestigious international sports academies and tie-ups with schools