Vice Principal
2 weeks ago
Job Description
GEMS Royal Dubai School is a vibrant, Premium British School (currently FS1 Year 7), expanding to Year 8 in September 2025 and growing annually. With 850 students currently on roll from over 48 nationalities, GEMS Royal Dubai School is a family-feel school with exceptionally high standards and is fully accredited as a World-Class High Performance Learning School.
RDS will become an all-through school, serving students from Foundation Stage to Year 13, offering GCSEs, A levels and BTec pathways, enhanced by the opening of our brand-new, purpose-built secondary campus in the summer of 2026.
In line with our expansion, we are looking for an exceptional, experienced leader to join us as Head of Secondary / Vice Principal for September 2025. The successful candidate will be self-motivated, have proven and sustained impact on driving standards and be committed to a culture of High Performance.
If you are a dynamic and impact driven leader this is an opportunity for you to shape our Secondary School and build on the success of RDS Primary.
Job Purpose: The post holder will be accountable for leading and enabling an outstanding, holistic, and dynamic experience for our students, which leads to exceptionally high outcomes through the implementation of a clear education strategy.
Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Lead the development, implementation and review of an outstanding secondary curriculum.
- Effective leadership of the secondary team ensuring accurate and effective assessment, including the selection of appropriate exam boards.
- Creating a culture where student data is used skilfully and extensively to optimise progress and personalise learning.
- Embracing, role modelling and leading a culture of exceptionally high academic standards and a commitment to UAE National Agenda targets.
- Lead and be accountable for high standards of learning and teaching through effective MER systems and professional development opportunities.
- Ensuring high quality safeguarding, care and support for students.
- Managing budgets and undertake teaching and other professional duties as reasonably delegated by the Principal / CEO.
- Work effectively with colleagues, students and parents using excellent interpersonal skills.
- Make a positive contribution to our school community and culture through active engagement in our extra-curricular programme and community-based events.
To be considered for this role, candidates must:
- Demonstrate a very strong knowledge of the curriculum, assessment and the best practices in learning and teaching across Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 of the NCfE.
- Have experience of the breadth of UK qualifications, the process for centre registration and associated requirements.
- Be an outstanding practitioner with significant leadership experience.
- Hold a leadership qualification and/or evidence of actively pursuing your own professional development as an executive leader.
- UAE experience highly desirable.
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