Salary: Dependent on Qualifications/and or experience Job type: Full Time, Permanent Start date: 4.1.25 Apply by: 30 November 2024

Job overview

John F. Kennedy International School in Saanen, Switzerland is looking for an energetic and dynamic Assistant to join our team to start in the 2025 Winter term.

About JFK

Small School, Big Heart

Founded in 1971, we are now a home to 95 students (aged 2.5 to 14) and 26 expert faculty and staff — a community representing over 22 different nations. We are proud of our international and multi-cultural ethos, and the way our community collaborates to make a difference. Our world-renowned curriculum is built on the best of global standards.

We offer a unique, family-oriented, educational environment where all students are motivated to fully develop their talents and skills in order to prepare them for acceptance into the best and most demanding secondary schools and also for the challenges of the world in which they will live and work.

The school is a co-educational English-language boarding and day school for children ages 4 to 14, culminating in the Year 9 (Grade 8). The growing student body is made up of around 60 students from over twenty different countries.

Boarding enrolment is limited to 25 students in order to maintain first-rate quality of care in our family-like environment.

Interested in joining our JFK family?

Please note that only EU / Swiss nationals' applications will be considered due to strict Swiss working permit regulations. The ability to drive a minibus would be an advantage. References will be checked from your previous employers.

UK APPLICANTS

Following the UK’s exit from the EU and the end of the withdrawal period agreed between the two parties on 31 December 2020, the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons (AFMP) between Switzerland and the EU no longer applies with the United Kingdom. From 1 January 2021, UK citizens are no longer citizens of the EU; instead, they have the status of third-country citizens.

Priority will be given to Swiss nationals, foreign nationals with a Swiss residence permit (C, B, L, S, or F ) and EU/EFTA citizens/permit holders, where candidates are equally qualified.

Closing date for receipt of applications: 30th November 2024. Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Please review the attached Job Description and Information Pack for full details of the job role, terms of service and person specification.

We reserve the right to appoint the right candidate ahead of the closing date.

Please apply through TES directly.

About John F. Kennedy International School

John F. Kennedy International School Chilchgasse 2, 3792 Saanen Switzerland +41 3 744 1372

More about John F. Kennedy International School

John F. Kennedy International School is a co-educational English-language boarding and day school for children ages 2.5 to 14, culminating in the Year 9 (Grade 8). The growing student body is made up of around 100 students from over twenty different countries.

Boarding enrolment is limited to 25 students in order to maintain first-rate quality of care in our family-like environment.

JFK is an accredited institution and was awarded a Quality School Certificate (QSC) in May 2009 by Pro Cert. It is also accredited by the Department of Education for the Canton of Bern. The school holds memberships in the Council of International Schools (CIS), the Swiss Group of International Schools (SGIS) and the Federation of Swiss Private Schools.

We look forward to hearing from you if the challenge of teaching and leading the development of an innovative middle school science and information technology programme appeal to you.

We offer a unique, family-oriented, educational environment where:

• all students are motivated to fully develop their talents and skills;

– we prepare them for acceptance into the best and most demanding secondary schools and also for the challenges of the world in which they will live and work.