Deputy Headteacher

**About us**:
Fortes Education has been a leading education provider in the UAE for over four decades with premium international schools and nurseries that have experienced outstanding success and growth. Our schools offer the most innovative and character-building education in the entire Middle East region.

Our core ethos and philosophy of education is Positive Education (PosEd). Through PosEd, our schools foster active engagement in learning, celebrating character strengths and accomplishments. We encourage children to cultivate fulfilling relationships with others and seek meaning and purpose in their own lives. We enable children to become happy learners and develop into innovative thinkers, confident young adults, and life-long learners. Children develop resilience, a growth mindset and deep character strengths that allow them to flourish in an ever-changing world.

**About Regent International School**

With a rich history of over 35 years, Regent International School is recognised as one of the leading and most innovative schools in the region, as well as a global leader in Positive Education. We have a close-knit family and community spirit with happiness resonating in our school, our children, our parents, and our teachers. We believe in inspiring, empowering, and enlightening our students and enriching the community that we are a part of.

Regent International School provides an ambitious, values-based education that develops skills for academic and personal achievement, as well as character, well-being, and happiness. We follow the National Curriculum of England offering an outstanding education from Nursery to the Early Years Foundation Stage to Secondary school, culminating in the I/GCSEs and BTECs in Years 10 and 11, and ‘A’ levels in Years 12 and 13.

Regent is a disruptively innovative school and is distinguished by its leading-edge Signature Programmes in STEAM & Design Thinking; Performing Arts, Media & Communication; Environment & Sustainability (Forest School); Financial Literacy & Entrepreneurship; Virtual Reality; Extracurriculars & Enrichment; and Fortes Artificial Intelligence Learning Platform. All of these are woven into the curriculum and our Project-based Learning pedagogy.

We present an exciting opportunity to join us in further developing our highly popular, dynamic and innovative school.

**About you**:
We are looking to appoint an outstanding, experienced, and inspirational leader with the knowledge, vision, and enthusiasm to further enhance our dynamic team to build upon the school's achievements and successes and move it forward in its next phase of development and drive standards in our continual journey towards excellence.

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious leader to be a key part of a Strategic Leadership Team and work closely with the Head of Secondary &/or Principal to provide a creative, stimulating, and inclusive learning environment in which all children can achieve their fullest potential.

If you think you have got what it takes for this role, then Regent International School may be just the challenge for you.

We are looking for certain qualities:

- The Deputy Headteacher should hold as a minimum, a B.Ed. or B.A & PGCE / PGDE or equivalent. Tertiary qualifications such as NPQH or NPQSL is desirable but not essential.
- Outstanding Leader with a minimum of 5 years of leadership and management experience as a Senior Leader in a Secondary phase with a proven track record of school improvement; improving teaching and raising standards in a demanding environment.
- A commitment to deliver on the Director of Education & Board of Directors’ educational vision for the school, and work along with the Head of Secondary &/or Principal to shape the school’s strategic direction in leading the school on its journey to outstanding.
- A creative practitioner and a highly effective leader who leads by example and can inspire and motivate & develop excellence in others through coaching and mentoring
- Has extensive knowledge and leadership experience of using data, monitoring & self-evaluation to promote improvement
- Build and develop highly effective teams, organisational structures and academic processes with an ability to delegate work and support colleagues in undertaking their responsibilities.
- Ability to build and maintain good relationships
- Ability to remain positive and enthusiastic when working under pressure
- Ability to organise work, prioritise tasks, make decisions and manage time effectively

**Our Offer**:

- Excellent tax-free salary
- Furnished Accommodation
- Relocation Allowance
- Medical Insurance for self, spouse & 2 dependents
- Annual Flights for self, spouse & 2 dependents
- Annual paid vacation
- An enthusiastic learning community of students, teachers, parents, and Board members, who are dedicated to maximise student achievement, and creating positive learning opportunities in and out of the classroom
- Working within a team