Music Administrator

About the job We are seeking to appoint a Music Administrator to assist with the successful running of all aspects of the busy department at WLFS. This is an important and highly valued role in a thriving department which requires excellent organisational skills to support its smooth running. The department includes 20 VMTs (Visiting Music Teachers), teaching around 300 instrumental lessons per week, and the ideal candidate will oversee all aspects of their delivery. They will also have a high profile in the organisation of events, and there will be a strong pupil-facing element to the role. We particularly welcome applications from active musicians, with opportunities for the successful candidate to be highly involved in the practical life of the department, assisting with ensembles, concerts and trips. The Music Administrator reports to the Director of Music, George de Voil. The Music Department The WLFS has been a music specialist school since its foundation, and the department is well resourced, with four full-time music teachers, supported by a full-time assistant and twenty visiting teachers. Twelve pupils each year enter the school as music scholars. At Key Stage 3, pupils have two hours a week of classroom music teaching, and develop a thorough theoretical and practical grasp of traditional music notation. Around half participate in either an after-school music ensemble or receive instrumental lessons, with almost 300 individual lessons taking place each week, and a scheme to encourage the study of ‘rare’ orchestral instruments. Our proportion of pupils taking Music GCSE (OCR) in Years 10 and 11 is among the highest for any secondary school in the country. At A-level we offer both Music (Eduqas) and Music Technology (Edexcel), and former pupils often study at the country’s most prestigious universities, with alumni winning choral scholarships and reading Music, recently at Merton and New Colleges in Oxford. The department runs an orchestra, a strin