Deputy Head of Secondary

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates The Arbor SchoolDubai, United Arab Emirates Full time

**The Arbor School**
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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**Job type**:

Full Time, Fixed Term

**Start date**:

January 2025
8 October 2024

**Job overview**:
The Arbor School is seeking an innovative, dynamic leader to join our Senior Leadership Team as the _Deputy Head of Secondary_ - with a focus on Curriculum, Data, and Assessment, _starting in January 2025_. This key role will support the Head of Secondary in enhancing the quality of educational practices across the Secondary School, ensuring that the Arbor School continues to be a unique educational establishment in Dubai.

They will play a significant role in driving forward the school's continuous improvement agenda, especially within our new Post 16 offering, pushing for high standards of student outcomes, and ensuring the school is recognised for its excellence in education and environmental best practice.

**_Enough For All, For Ever_**
- The Arbor School opened in 2018 with a very different vision of what education could and should be - experiential, authentic and inspired by the natural beauty, human ingenuity, and profound ecological and social challenges of the Arabian Peninsula. _
- The cultivation of a learning community uniquely committed to understanding and restoring the health of ecological and human communities as interconnected parts of a whole requires equal parts optimism, ambition, and humility. A fundamental belief in the inherit goodness of people and their capacity to act with empathy and compassion underscores the sense of hope that is fundamental to learning for a sustainable future. The resilience and determination to tackle challenges that have grown to global proportion is essential to finding sustainable solutions and orchestrating the social changes needed to grow them to scale. The realisation that comes from recognising that we are all students - never a master - drives our commitment to ignite a lifelong love of learning._
- Recognising the interconnected nature of the cognitive, affective and participative domains, and their roles_ _in shaping learning, we are pursuing a holistic approach to teaching and learning, designed to prepare learners: _
- _to understand the interconnected concepts of sustainability, individual and collective well-being, and environmental and social justice;_
- _to find purpose, meaning and joy in their interactions with the natural world and with each other, and to seek to understand people who are different to themselves; and_
- _to experience a sense of accomplishment and self-efficacy through their actions at home, in school and in the wider world._

**JOB SUMMARY**

**THE ARBOR PROMISE**

Arbor teachers are a part of a community which is inclusive, fun-loving, and active. Arbor teachers enjoy authentic friendships with their colleagues, positive relationships with school leaders, who care for their wellbeing, and are a team in the true sense. Arbor teachers are resilient in the face of challenge, are stable and calm in the face of change, and creative and flexible when solving problems. Arbor teachers bring their passions and interests to enrich our school and are clear that there is an expectation to do so. We commit to meeting agreed deadlines, to communicating proactively with an assumption of positive intent and share a passion to provide an education of the highest quality to our students.

**REQUIRED CANDIDATE PROFILE**:

- Qualified Teacher Status with significant leadership experience in a growing school.
- NPQSL, Masters (MA/MSc) or similar
- Minimum two cumulative years of educational leadership
- Understanding of the growth and development of Post 16 provision.
- Understanding of timetabling (whole school) would be a benefit.
- Proven track record of implementing successful curriculum frameworks and driving innovation in data and assessment.
- Demonstrated expertise in data management systems, with the ability to interpret data to inform school-wide strategies for improvement.
- Experience in leading whole-school professional development initiatives that enhance teaching effectiveness and student learning outcomes.
- Knowledge of KHDA standards, BSO frameworks, and other relevant regulatory requirements for international schools.
- A commitment to promoting the values of sustainability, environmental responsibility, and community engagement central to Arbor School’s vision.

**REMUNERATION**:
Competitive tax-free salary, school provided accommodation, free school places for children, private medical insurance, annual airfares, and end of contract gratuity as per the UAE labour law.

**APPLICATION**:

- An up-to-date CV with a recent photograph to be included.
Please view our school prospectus via this link:

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**Attached documents**:

- Job Description
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School Prospectus - Arbor Secondary School.pdf
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Sixth Form Booklet - Arbor School.pdf
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School prospectus
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Sixth Form Prospectus
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