Bursar (Director of Finance/Operations)
Wellington College International Bangkok (WCIB)
Thailand
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- January 2026 or earlier
- Apply by:
- 2 June 2025
Job overview
This is an exceptional opportunity for a highly motivated, financially astute, commercially driven and strategic individual to help shape and lead the next phase of the School’s development.
The School
Wellington College International School Bangkok opened in September 2018 and offers a first-class British education for students aged 2 to 18. It has quickly gained a reputation as one of the top schools in the city, in Thailand, and in the ASEAN region. The School’s facilities are world class: the design and appearance are modern yet combine distinctive features of the UK founding school, Wellington College, and elements of Thai culture. There are currently 1,000 students; when the School campus is completed and all year groups are full, numbers will grow to around 1,800.
The Role
The Bursar’s strategic focus in the next five years will be delivery of the significant capital projects which will complete the School campus. Reporting to the Master, the Bursar will provide leadership to a diverse support team and ensure the effective and efficient delivery of the day-to-day non-educational operations of the School, including Finance, Operations (estates and facilities), Commercial, HR and IT as well as Wellington Extra – the co-curricular programme, which is an important part of the School’s offer.
The Person
The successful candidate will have the skills, experience, and attributes to work with colleagues at all levels to implement the financial and commercial strategy and lead operational delivery. An outstanding communicator and possessing an international mindset, they will need to demonstrate proven ability in executive leadership and financial control, commercial success, managing resources, delivering results, thinking strategically, and inspiring and motivating high functioning teams.
Interested candidates are invited to contact RSAcademics to arrange an informal and confidential discussion about the role:
Nina Lambert, Head of Commercial Appointments: ninalambert@rsacademics.com
The closing date for applications is 10:00 (UK) / 16:00 (Thailand) on Monday 2 June 2025.
Applications should be made electronically to RSAcademics. To submit your application please click and upload your documents according to the instructions provided. You will be taken to an online portal where you will be able to download the application materials.
You should submit:
- A completed application form
- A completed data sharing agreement
- A covering letter addressed to the Master, Mr Chris Nicholls. The letter should be a maximum of two pages and should explain your reasons for applying and outline your suitability for the role.
If you have any questions about uploading your application documents, please contact Laura Cave, Project Coordinator, at applications@rsacademics.com. Laura can also be reached by calling our Head Office on +44 (0) 204 6269 791.
Wellington College International School Bangkok is committed to 51ºÚÁÏ and promoting the wellbeing of all our students, and we expect all staff to share this commitment. We follow safer recruitment practices according to international standards.
All applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and international child protection authorities; 51ºÚÁÏ-related questions will be asked throughout this appointment process.
The 51ºÚÁÏ responsibilities of the role are indicated in the candidate information.
RSAcademics is committed to 51ºÚÁÏ and promoting the welfare of children and young people and to promoting diversity and inclusion in schools.
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About Wellington College International Bangkok (WCIB)
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- Wellington College International Bangkok (WCIB)
- 18 Krungthep Kreetha Road, Saphan Sung District
- Bangkok
- 10250
- Thailand
Wellington College Bangkok
Wellington College Bangkok’s mission is to deliver the most exceptional international education in Thailand—and across the region. We are proud and thrilled to be able to provide a very important piece in the jigsaw of Bangkok’s growing prominence as a Southeast Asian hub, and we are delighted to welcome families of all nationalities.
Our School is purpose-built on an expansive greenfield campus. The buildings, designed by world-class architects, are airy and modern yet retain echoes of the grandeur of the past. Our sports provision includes a full Olympic-size 50-metre pool, a huge gymnasium, a 400-metre track, sports pitches, basketball and tennis courts, indoor and outdoor golf facilities. Our fully-equipped classrooms, Learning Studios, Reading Rooms, Harkness rooms, Faculty Salons, our extraordinary 600-seat Theatre, our stylish Copenhagen Café (named after the Duke of Wellington’s favourite horse), our equally chic Café 1815, as well as the recreation areas—the green of the trees and the grass, the blue of the water—all play their part in making the experience of being at Wellington unique, exciting and, on top of that, fun.
The global family of Wellington Colleges—in the UK, China, here in Thailand, and shortly in India—has a very strong reputation for the development of academic excellence, international-mindedness, leadership, responsibility, service to others, outstanding pastoral provision and an exceptionally rich programme of co-curricular activities.
Our values grow from those of our close partner school, the world-renowned Wellington College in Berkshire. It is a fundamental principle that every child can thrive when provided with outstanding, wide-ranging and open-ended opportunities to develop, explore and learn. Our students’ individual responses to these opportunities, shepherded by some of the best teachers in the world and supported by our uniquely dedicated pastoral teams, can set them on the path to extraordinary academic achievement—which, at Wellington, routinely goes hand-in-hand with excellence in performing and visual arts, sport and service to others. This is what it means for the whole child to flourish.
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