Yasmina British Academy is an outstanding English Curriculum school in the beautiful city of Abu Dhabi. With our globally recognised and admired curriculum, dedicated and passionate practitioners and outstanding teaching and learning, Yasmina British Academy is an exceptional place to work. It has an exciting, diverse and progressive learning community that annually produces some of the very best I/GCSE and A Level result in the UAE.
The Academy is extremely proud of its recent ADEK inspection, which rated Yasmina British Academy as 'Outstanding' in all six performance standards, putting it amongst the top schools in the UAE and Middle East.
From the start of the Academic Year 2024/25, Yasmina British Academy is moving to a new multi-building campus incorporating state of the art facilities that will enable our teachers and students to flourish, fostering a future focused educational experience while also delivering on our environmental commitments to supply sustainable schools to the UAE.
This incredible facility will be more than just a school, acting as a social, sporting and performance hub for both the local and international communities of the city. The new campus enables us to add even more value to our currently outstanding educational provision, whilst utilising the reputation of Aldar Academies' brand to positively impact the lives of our learning community in the UAE.
The successful candidates will be closely aligned with our core values and ethos and possess a genuine understanding and appreciation of the values of the region.
ResponsibilitiesMain Duties
- Assist academy in achieving its overall vision and strategic intentions and to contribute to the achievement of relevant targets as set out in the academy’s improvement plan and self-evaluation form
- Comply with regulations pertaining to health and safety at work legislation and adhere to academy policies relating to safe working practice and equal opportunities regulations
- Comply with the academy’s Performance Management Policy ensuring challenging annual targets are set and to fulfil the role of performance management reviewer if directed to do so by the principal
- Engage in annual training linked to child protection, safeguarding and health and safety together with all training deemed appropriate for the purpose of academy improvement or performance management
- Comply with the academy’s computer Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) at all times
- Lead strategic direction and development of the department, including but not limited to setting the vision, analysing data, improvement planning, target setting and ongoing self-evaluation.
- Lead on curriculum development ensuring outstanding provision for all, including an enhanced extra and co-curricular programme.
- Communicate effectively and proactively with all stakeholders.
- Play a lead role in developing key policies and practices that support the Academy’s overall aims, vision and values.
- Monitoring the effectiveness of learning and teaching and of systems/practices; evaluating their impact on student progress and standards and thereby identifying further areas for development whilst encouraging the sharing of best practice and fostering a culture of high reward and praise.
- Ensuring that all practices promote student progression; improved achievements; a positive ethos and the commitment of staff to shared goals.
- Developing a department development plan through collaborative work that dovetails and supports the whole academy’s development and its commitment to raising standards.
- To share responsibility for representing the Department at cross-curricular committees e.g. EAL link.
- Monitoring and reviewing students' progress through the use of appropriate data; home learning; student voice; lesson observations; student work reviews and parental engagement.
- Identifying and implanting strategies to enhance Learning and Teaching within the Department including the use of emerging learning technologies.
- Modelling outstanding practice in Learning and Teaching.
- Involving external advice and expertise where this would further benefit and enhance the learning agenda and therefore student progress, achievement and…
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