Teacher of Speech and Drama

**Job type**:
Full Time, Fixed Term

**Start date**:
01/08/2025

24 November 2024

**Job overview**:
**Commencing August 2025**:
**The College**

There is something genuinely special about Marlborough College Malaysia. Those fortunate enough to work here all agree that our greatest joy, attribute, advert and reward are the pupils who form the College. They provide daily inspiration, a model of what wider society could be like and genuine optimism for the future.

We live and work in a safe and spacious 90-acre campus in southern Malaysia, reminiscent of the generous grounds and playing fields of Marlborough College in the UK enhanced by our own organic farm and boating lake. Guided by our principles of compassion, companionship and conversation, Marlborough College Malaysia gives its pupils the space, inspiration and courage to explore their own potential, the wonders of our world and their responsibilities to it and to each other.

The College is arranged as a Prep School (3-13) and a Senior School (14-18) and currently has 970 pupils, around 570 in the Prep and 160 in the Sixth Form. Pupils from the age of nine may choose to board and approximately a third of those who are eligible, do so, with almost half of the Senior School and most of the Sixth Form boarding. The Singapore Tatler has referred to the College as “the only school in Asia offering an authentic British boarding programme”.

The College is very well-resourced and enjoys an enviable reputation for its pupils’ achievements on a broad variety of fronts. It is one of the few schools in Asia to achieve membership of HMC, an association of the world’s leading independent schools, to have the Council of British International Schools’ coveted “Beacon” status and to have won international plaudits for innovation and excellence from the UK’s Boarding Schools’ Association. It was listed in The School’s Index (by Carfax Education) as one of the world’s 150 leading independent schools in 2024, for the fourth consecutive year, and one of the top 10 schools in South East Asia. It appears in the Spear’s Index of top 100 private schools in the world, and was awarded ‘International School of the Year’ by the Tes. Following a recent ISI inspection MCM has also achieved the prestigious BSO (British Schools Overseas) status.

Marlborough College Malaysia enjoys very close links with Marlborough College in the UK and remains one of the few (possibly the only) international school which is a wholly owned subsidiary of its founding educational institution and entirely not for-profit. Unlike most international schools where profits are required to repay investors, instead all Marlborough College Malaysia surplus is committed to Marlborough’s charitable aim of providing the finest quality education and the school thrives as an example of the best that a British independent school education has to offer.

**The Role**:
The Drama Department is a hub of activity within the College and in an exciting phase of expansion. In addition to the Irvine Theatre in the Senior School, two further performance venues can be found in the Wykeham Hall within the Preparatory School and the Green Hall located in the Pre-Preparatory School. Whilst the Head of Preparatory Drama delivers the Drama Curriculum from Year 3 to Year 8, the Director of Drama and a further Teacher of Drama are responsible for the teaching of Year 9, GCSE and IB Theatre in the Senior School. Across the College, the department produce numerous productions a year, including Musicals and studio plays. Both the Curricular and Co-Curricular Drama are supported by two full-time Technicians and a Seamstress.

Lessons of Speech and Drama will be available to pupils across the College, offering a curriculum in Acting, Devising, Shakespeare and the PCertLAM following the LAMDA exam board; pupils will be able to choose to work towards examinations at their own pace or simply use Speech and Drama lessons to develop their performance skills or prepare audition material for Drama Schools. Lessons will be forty-five minutes in length, and offered weekly, with the option for pupils to attend alone, or with a peer.

**The Recruitment Process**

Full criteria, remuneration and benefits package can be found in the


to the Master, Simon Burbury by 9.00 am (GMT) on Monday, 25th November 2024. A CV is not required, but may be submitted at the discretion of the applicant. Applications should be sent to:
Interview schedule:

- First round interviews will take place online in the week beginning 2nd December 2024.
- Final interviews for non-UK applicants will be held at Marlborough College Malaysia or online, as appropriate, in the week beginning 9th December 2024.

The College may interview suitable applicants out with these dates if appropriate for all parties and reserves the right to appoint at any time.

For more information, please visit our College's career section at:
**About **Marlborough College