Director of Basketball Academy
Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College, Barking, Essex, IG11 9AG23 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
13 November 2026 at 9am
Date listed
21 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £47,262.00 - £50,676.00 Annually (Actual) Permanent, Full Time
Director of Basketball Academy job summary
Director of Basketball Academy
Commencing: As Soon As Possible
Salary Scale: P03, Pt 32-35 (£47,262 -£50,676 (FT)
Contract: Permanent, Full Time
Reporting to: Director of Sport / Senior Leadership Team
We are seeking a visionary leader who combines elite basketball knowledge with a passion for developing young people. The successful candidate will have the experience, ambition and drive to build on Barking Abbey’s exceptional reputation and take one of the nation’s leading basketball academies to even greater heights. They will be committed to producing outstanding student-athletes, creating life-changing opportunities, and ensuring Barking Abbey remains the benchmark for basketball excellence in the UK. The successful candidate will embrace the demands of an elite basketball programme, including a significant commitment to weekend competition through the Academy’s National Basketball League teams, recognising the importance of these teams within our player development pathway.
About Barking Abbey Basketball Academy
Barking Abbey Basketball Academy is widely recognised as the premier basketball academy in the United King-dom. Competing at the highest level in both the Elite Academy Basketball League (EABL) and Women’s Elite Academy Basketball League (WEABL), the Academy has a long-standing reputation for excellence, producing numerous professional and international players.
Our programme has established itself as the leading pathway for talented student-athletes, regularly progressing players to NCAA programmes in the United States on full athletic scholarships, professional clubs across Europe, and international representative teams. Our success on court is matched by our commitment to academic achievement, personal development, and preparing young people for life beyond basketball.
We are seeking an ambitious, passionate and experienced basketball professional to lead our Academy into its next phase of development.
What We Offer
The opportunity to lead the most successful basketball academy programme in the United Kingdom.
Access to outstanding facilities and a nationally recognised sporting environment.
The opportunity to work with some of the country’s most talented student-athletes.
Strong links with professional clubs, international programmes and NCAA institutions.
A culture that values excellence, ambition and innovation.
Ongoing professional development and leadership opportunities.
Barking Abbey is an Ofsted Outstanding heavily over-subscribed dual campus secondary school in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, with a well-deserved reputation for academic excellence and a supportive professional environment.
The school is located less than 10 minutes walk from Upney tube and 15 minutes from Barking mainline station.
Barking Abbey celebrates its diversity, and we positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. If you are interested in making a difference in young people’s lives whatever your background or history please apply.
In return we offer:
A supportive and encouraging staff team.
The opportunity to access a wide range of CPD opportunities within and beyond school.
A school which understands the importance of staff well-being and workload management.
A positive ethos with excellent behaviour reinforced by highly visible SLT and centralised behaviour systems.
We are proud that Ofsted recently judged the school to be Outstanding in all areas. The report states; “This is a large and diverse school where difference is valued. Pupils, and students in the sixth form, are supportive and respectful of each other. Pupils’ conduct is exemplary, both inside lessons and around the school. Leaders have established simple and clear rules that everyone understands. Pupils are focused, engaged and participate well in lessons. Staff feel that their workload and well-being has been carefully considered by leaders. They appreciate their open-door policy”. (Ofsted, February 2024)
Please click here to find out more information about what it is like to work at Barking Abbey:
https://www.barkingabbeyschool.co.uk/home/join-us/staff-vacancies/
Barking Abbey is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and a comprehensive screening process, including Disclosure check, will be undertaken on all successful applicants.
Online searches may be conducted for all shortlisted candidates and will be conducted for all successful candidates as part of our due diligence check
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College
- Organisation type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 2418 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
Welcome to Barking Abbey school and thank you for expressing an interest in applying for a position here.
For me there are three simple things that I want us to achieve at Barking Abbey school.
First, our motto ‘Give and Expect the best’ leads us to want to be the best in everything we do. We have some of the best results in the area, we have pupils at the best universities, we have the most pupils on apprenticeships in the entire country, we have basketball players in the best leagues and so much more. We have all of this because we push our pupils and each other to excel. All of us try to be our best every day.
Second, I firmly believe that if you can’t see it you can’t be it. We want to give our pupils the chance to see successful people of every religion, colour and background whilst they are at school. Whatever their dreams
we want to support them and provide the networks and contacts to help them to achieve.
Finally, we want our pupils to have a voice in the world. To be confident enough to express their views and also to have the knowledge to be able to make an effective contribution. The more you know the more
powerful you can be in the world.
Sir Tim Brighouse said “If a teacher makes the weather the school creates the climate.” and I firmly believe this. It is our role as a leadership team to create the best possible learning environment for our teachers
to teach in. In return we expect the best possible teaching from them and our results show this over time.
If you share our ethos and values and absolutely believe in the potential of all young people then we can offer you the chance to make a difference and change our community for the better, and look forward to receiving
your application form and welcoming you to our school.
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