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Assistant Headteacher - Head of Early Years & Key Stage 1 required from August 2025

The ABC International School is searching for enthusiastic and inspirational staff to join its current outstanding teaching team. The school is looking for an Assistant Headteacher - Head of Early Years & Key Stage 1 to join our excellent team of practitioners on the Trung Son Campus.


The final closing date for applications is 0900hrs, UK time, on Sunday, 29th September 2024 but applicants are strongly encouraged to submit their applications at the very earliest opportunity as strong candidates will be offered interviews before the closing date. There is a downloadable pdf document (Job Descriptions – Assistant Headteacher - Head of Early Years & Key Stage 1) below that gives further details about the position.


To apply you will:

• Have a Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant subject
• Have a teaching qualification in a relevant field
• Have at least three years’ teaching experience
• Have previous Middle Management experience
• Have UK teaching experience or recent experience delivering the English National Curriculum

How to Apply

Please apply directly through Tes. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted via email for interviews. Please upload the following as supporting documents in PDF or Word format:

• Passport & Degrees
• CV

The contact details of a minimum of three educational referees must be provided on the application, one of which must be your current Headteacher or Principal.


Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.


The ABC International School is an aspirational learning community. Accordingly, we are keen to recruit ambitious individuals who feel able and ready to assume higher levels of responsibility.


In most cases, additional responsibility roles are advertised later to both current and newly recruited staff. Candidates who are successfully appointed to such posts will join the school’s middle management team and receive an appropriate responsibility allowance in addition to their basic salary. A number of these posts become available as the result of the present incumbents being promoted and the school enjoys an enviable reputation for providing colleagues with the experience and training that enables them to move on to senior positions within the region and beyond.


The terms and conditions offered to successful applicants are generous and reflect the high levels of commitment, loyalty and dedication that are expected of individuals wishing to become part of a high performing team of like-minded professionals.


The school reserves the right to re-advertise and/or to seek to appoint the best possible applicants through alternate means of advertising.

Safer Recruitment

All offers and appointments will be confirmed as soon as possible after interview and are dependent on satisfactory references and the relevant criminal history checks.


The ABC International School is totally committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and expects the same from its employees. All new staff will be subject to enhanced pre-employment clearance including identity checks, criminal history checks, qualification checks and employment checks to include an exploration of any gaps in employment and two satisfactory employment checks.


Online due diligence checks and searches may be conducted for shortlisted candidates as part of the selection process.


For more information about The ABCIS, please see our School Prospectus below.

“The ABCIS is an outstanding school. It provides an excellent ‘British style education’ while fully embracing and celebrating its Vietnamese context and culture”.

Established in 1995, The ABC International School is thriving, popular and well established. It provides an International Education of World-Wide Value for pupils between the ages of 2-18 years through the medium of English and in accordance with the standards of the British National Curriculum. Pupils of all ages are happy, high achievers who are well motivated and superbly well cared for. The school is unashamedly proud of its’ teaching faculty of more than seventy expatriates who are a well-qualified and experienced team that promote the very highest levels of student achievement through the use of experiential and holistic teaching methods. The whole community is accommodated in well-resourced purpose built facilities. The standard timetable is complimented by an extensive range of extra-curricular activities and all campuses are served by an extensive home to school bus system.
Students graduate with qualifications from the AQA and Cambridge IGCSE and AS/A level Examination Boards enabling students to gain places (many with scholarships) into many of the world’s leading universities. The ABCIS is currently the only school in Vietnam recognised and registered to offer the additional entry examinations for Medicine and Law at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
The academic results of the students are amongst the highest of any international school globally, in 2024 65% of our A level results were A*-A grades. In addition to our academics, a broad and varied program of extra-curricular activities enhances our curriculum.
The school is a registered British Schools Overseas school and has been graded “Outstanding” in 4 consecutive BSO inspections, an achievement only matched by a small number of schools globally.

Principal

Mr. Steve Shaw

Our Vision

To be one of the best international schools in the world offering an outstanding, holistic education that will lead to our students being successful in further education and beyond.

Our Mission

To provide an excellent teaching and learning environment for the development of our students and staff so that all may realise their full potential, and be able to constantly strive for higher goals and ideals.
To ensure our students will benefit not only from being in Vietnam, but also from the opportunity of learning alongside adults and students from many parts of the world, thereby facilitating the total development of each child, within an ever-changing global community.

4 Consecutive BSO Inspections, All Rating The School As “Outstanding” In All Categories