Job overview
This role includes boarding house duties (study supervision, mentoring, sport sessions with the students) and also outdoor education hours for the right candidate.
Staff at HIF are dedicated. They enjoy nurturing students' academic and personal growth by fostering intellectual curiosity, resilience and a commitment to wellbeing. They embrace the local region and culture and look for ways to draw on this in and outside of the classroom.
HochAlpines Institut Ftan is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all the students in our care and expects all applicants to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices that are aligned with the recommendations of the International Task Force on Child Protection. We hold ourselves to a high standard of effective recruiting practices with specific attention to child protection.
Due to the nature of this role applicants must be Swiss/ EU or EFTA passport holders to apply.
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About Hochalpines Institut Ftan
‘Where Exploration meets Education’
Founded in 1793 and recently acquired by Education in Motion (EiM), the Hochalpine Institut Ftan (HIF) is an international boarding school in the stunning Lower Engadine. Locally anchored and globally networked, at HIF, we see education as a journey where global horizons meet local traditions. Fostering a truly student-centred culture of learning and discovery and taking full advantage of its unique and life enriching alpine location to offer a range of Swiss sports and outdoor programmes, students at HIF lead an inspiring, healthy, and active educational and outdoor life.
As a Cantonal and federally recognised grammar school with boarding HochAlpines Institut Ftan runs a bilingual grammar school and an international diploma programme combining A Levels and a unique range of accredited micro-credentials essential to learning and life skill development and recognised as a differentiator by universities.
At HIF all students both local and global, are challenged to become internationally minded citizens with a sense of responsibility for themselves, their peers, and our shared planet. With understanding that our values of Open-Mindedness, Respect and Responsibility help to make the world a better place, and together with our high performing Sports Academy, HIF is an ideal place for young people to live, learn, grow, and thrive.
We are a growing school, and this is an exciting opportunity for a candidate who will inspire, set the highest of standards and build systems to ensure that we set the scene for future excellence in all that we do.