HEAD OF PERFORMING ARTS

Role Overview

- Position: Head of Performing Arts
- Institution Type: Progressive CBSE School
- Location: Noida
- Employment Type: Full-time
- Reports to: School Leadership / Principal

We are looking for an inspiring and experienced Head of Performing Arts to lead and shape the school’s Performing Arts programme across all age groups. This role brings together music, theatre, dance, and related performance practices to create a vibrant culture of creativity, confidence, collaboration, and self-expression.

The ideal candidate is both an accomplished performing arts professional and an effective educational leader—someone who translates artistic practice into meaningful learning experiences while mentoring a team of educators and building a strong performance culture across the school.

Key Responsibilities

1. Programme & Curriculum Leadership

- Design and implement a progressive, age-appropriate Performing Arts programme from Early Years through Senior School, ensuring alignment with the CBSE framework.
- Develop a coherent progression of skills, repertoire, and artistic experiences, integrating interdisciplinary projects with literature, history, and visual arts.
- Introduce students to diverse Indian and global artistic traditions and contemporary performance practices.

2. Pedagogy & Student Learning

- Champion experiential, studio-based, and performance-led learning that encourages creative risk-taking.
- Use formative assessment and documentation to recognise process, growth, collaboration, and artistic development.




- Create meaningful learning pathways for both beginners and advanced performers, fostering student agency and voice.

3. Faculty Leadership & Development

- Lead, mentor, and evaluate the Performing Arts faculty across disciplines through regular lesson observations and feedback.
- Establish a collaborative culture of lesson planning, rehearsal, reflection, and professional learning.

4. Productions, Performances & Showcases

- Provide artistic direction for school productions, annual showcases, concerts, and student performances via a structured annual calendar.
- Guide students and faculty through auditions, casting, rehearsals, choreography, staging, and production planning.

5. Creative Culture & External Partnerships

- Build a visible school-wide performing arts culture, nurturing student-led clubs, ensembles, bands, and theatre groups.
- Establish relationships with professional artists, cultural institutions, and creative organisations to bring masterclasses and residencies to the school.

6. Spaces, Resources & Budget

- Manage the Performing Arts budget responsibly, overseeing music rooms, studios, rehearsal spaces, and performance areas.
- Procure appropriate equipment,



instruments, costumes, and technical resources while maintaining strict safety and safeguarding protocols.

Desired Candidate Profile

Essential Requirements

- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Performing Arts, Music, Theatre, Dance, Fine Arts, Arts Education, or a related discipline.
- Experience: 8–12+ years of relevant experience, including leadership/management experience in an educational institution.
- Skills: Strong expertise in at least one performing arts discipline with broad appreciation across others; excellent curriculum design, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in a progressive, experiential, or inquiry-led school environment (IB/Cambridge exposure is a plus).
- Demonstrated track record of qualified performance, choreography, production, or working with external cultural institutions.

Leadership Attributes We Value

- Artistically strong, creatively curious, and student-centred.
- Comfortable challenging conventional approaches and balancing artistic ambition with educational purpose.
- Inclusive, highly organised, and a natural culture-builder and mentor.

What the Role Offers

- Significant creative and pedagogical ownership to shape the school's performing arts vision.
- An opportunity to build a high-performing team and a vibrant school-wide performance culture.
- A platform to form meaningful partnerships with external artists and cultural organisations.

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