Head of Arabic, Islamic and Social Studies

3 weeks ago


UAE, United Arab Emirates GEMS Cambridge International Private School - Sharjah Full time

GEMS Cambridge International Private School - Sharjah

United Arab Emirates
- New
- Salary:

- Competitive tax-free salary, individual fully furniFree schooling, private medical insurance, annual airfares to country of residence and end of Service Gratuity.
- Job type:

- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:

- January 2024
- 10 December 2023

**Job overview**:
**About GEMS**

Trusted for over 55 years and now a third generation education family, GEMS Education began in a single school room in Dubai. Today, we have the privilege of educating over 190,000 students from over 176 countries through GEMS owned and managed schools globally; over 270,000 students access resources through our services division; and we will impact 20 million by 2020 students through the initiatives of our Charity partner Varkey Foundation.

**About the School**

GEMS Cambridge International Private School Sharjah ( GCS) has a proven track record of continued success in both academic and extra-curricular activities. GCS has been rated as very good in every performance standard of the UAE Unified Inspection framework and judged as outstanding in their provision of Health and Safety for students and staff. GCS is an accredited British Schools Overseas ( BSO) school and has been rated as the Best School in Sharjah according to the reputed Which School Advisor website.

Just 25 minutes from Downtown Dubai, this extremely successful school, opened in September 2019 and currently has 2300 students from FS 1 to Year 13. GEMS Cambridge Sharjah is a values-driven school which delivers the National Curriculum of England, with distinct opportunities to develop students’ full potential academically, socially and personally in a warm, happy and safe environment with design thinking at the core of curriculum.

We are recruiting an outstanding, innovative, Head of Arabic to join the team and play a key role on the Executive Leadership Team supporting the Principal/ CEO in driving forward the school from January 2024.

**Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to**:

- Embracing and encouraging the ethos and standards of excellence as defined in the GEMS and GCS Core Values.
- Overseeing all aspects of provision in the School as the school develops.
- Ensuring high-quality care and support for students in the School.
- Ensuring high academic standards in the whole School in relation to the school’s own desire for all students to be the best they can be as well as a commitment to the UAE National Agenda targets.
- Managing budgets and undertaking teaching and other professional duties as reasonably delegated by the Principal.
- Extensive experience in leading and overseeing the Arabic department.
- An effective and dynamic leader with a proven track record in sustained school improvement that can be demonstrated through concrete data.
- Rigorous in promoting excellence and developing commitment to high standards of care and opportunities for all.
- Able to demonstrate success of leading and managing staff including promoting and developing innovative approaches to learning.
- Experienced in developing teachers’ skills and competencies through a sustained school improvement model.
- Able to demonstrate a comprehensive and confident knowledge of best practice pedagogy for secondary school
- Able to demonstrate a desire to be innovative and creative in the provision offered for all learners to ensure everyone can succeed.
- Knowledgeable in the use of data to develop clear strategies to work towards outstanding progress and attainment across the School
- Able to demonstrate a commitment to inclusion.
- Able to demonstrate genuine passion towards the wider co-curricular life of a school.

**Required qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Education or another relevant field with a teaching qualification
- 10 years’ educational experience with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a senior leadership role

**About **GEMS Cambridge International Private School - Sharjah**:

- _ GEMS Cambridge International Private School - Sharjah_
- _ Muwailih School Zone_
- _ Sharjah_
- _ United Arab Emirates_
- +971 502 4800_

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