Head of Secondary
24 hours ago
**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent
**Start date**:
August 2025
20 December 2024
**Job overview**:
**Safeguarding Statement**
Safa British School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. At Safa British School, we hold ourselves to a high standard of effective practices in relation to child protection and we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We expect all staff to share this commitment.
**Job Purpose**
The Secondary Headteacher promotes an inspiring vision and clear direction that is shared by all members of the Secondary School. Ultimately, the Secondary Headteacher is responsible for ensuring that the curriculum, teaching and assessment practices inspire high levels of engagement, achievement and progress for students of all abilities.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced senior leader (minimum 3 years of senior leadership), who fully shares our vision of an inclusive education.
**Key Accountabilities**
**Strategic Leadership**
- Promote an inspiring vision dedicated to high standards that is shared by all members of the Secondary School.
- Initiate, prioritize and lead Secondary School improvement activities through effective strategic leadership
- Display a high level of professional competence in all areas of responsibility.
- Communicate a clear view of the Secondary School’s aims so that all staff know what is required of them and are competent and committed to achieving the school’s goals.
**Self Evaluation and Improvement Planning**
- Ensure that the Secondary School’s academic program is fit for purpose and challenges students of all abilities
- Involve all Secondary staff in systematic, rigorous self-evaluation with the explicit purpose of improving the quality of students’ experiences and their standards of attainment.
- Work collaboratively with external bodies and the Senior Leadership Team to achieve outstanding results on school accreditations, inspections and evaluations
- Monitor teachers’ plans, evaluate students’ classroom experiences, track students’ attainment and evaluate progress towards meeting agreed targets
- Ensure that middle leaders and teachers set aspirational yet realistic goals aimed at improving students’ performance
- Ensure that all recommendations from previous inspections and evaluations are included in the schools’ improvement plans
- Ensure that teaching and learning is monitored closely and consistently across the school and identify areas of development
- Ensure that all Secondary School staff are appraised annually providing recognition for areas of strength and recommendations for areas of development and growth.
**Parent, Student and Community Relationships**
- Be responsible for the safety and well-being of all students through positive recognition and high expectations for behaviour and conduct
- Build and maintain relationships with Secondary School parents and the community by establishing regular and appropriate communications with all members of the school community, both internally and externally
- Ensure that parents receive regular reports of their children’s progress and attainment that include next steps for learning
- Work collaboratively with the Principal and Admissions Manager to achieve enrolment targets and business objectives
**Person Specifications**
Education: Teaching certification, higher educational professional qualification
Experience: 3 years’ school leadership
**Skills**
To be successful you will need to be a dynamic and outward-facing practitioner, keen to share and collaborate with others, and capable of inspiring commitment from the rest of the team.
As an excellent communicator who is approachable and effective at building relationships and partnerships throughout the school, you will share our commitment to the academic success and personal growth of every student.
Above all, you will have a proven track record that prepares you to build innovatively on the many types of excellence already demonstrated by Safa British School.
**About **Safa British School Dubai**:
**Safa British School Dubai**
- Al Safa 1- Dubai- United Arab Emirates+971 3884300
**All Through British Curriculum School**:
Safa British School is a British Curriculum School, located within a short distance of Safa Park and offering an enriched British curriculum to children from Foundation Stage to Secondary. Recently moving to a brand new campus, we offer exciting learning opportunities for children from FS1 to Year 12.
With over 50 nationalities and cultures within our global family here at Safa British School, we are a friendly school in Dubai with a strong diversity, clear vision and ethos, excellent standards in teaching and learning and a vast, varied programme of sports and extra-curricular activities.
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