Principal,Education Administration Job Abu Dhabi area,UAE/Dubai,Education / Teaching

Job Description

Aldar Education is currently seeking an inspirational school leader for the position of Principal within the UAE, commencing August 2027 or sooner by appointment, due to planned current and future expansion. Aldar Education is the leading education group in Abu Dhabi. We provide inclusive and innovative learning that inspires and empowers communities. Aldar Education aims to be your employer of choice.

We educate over 34,000 students across our group of owned and managed schools in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain, and as we grow, so does our need for highly skilled, inspirational, and dedicated school leaders and employees across the group. Working collaboratively, our purpose is to empower the next generation to shape our future, directly supporting the educational goals of Abu Dhabi’s government.

Today, Aldar Education’s efforts are guided by the Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030 plan, which aims to build a sustainable knowledge-based economy through premium education. We are a “Great Place To Work” and currently employ over 1,400 teachers to deliver the English National Curriculum, the highly regarded American Massachusetts State Curriculum, and the prestigious International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, all with an international dimension.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly successful Aldar family of schools and to help shape the future of Abu Dhabi’s leading school group.

Responsibilities Strategic Direction and Development of the School

To formulate overall aims and objectives for the school and policies for their implementation.
To create an ethos and provide educational vision and direction which secures effective teaching, successful learning and achievement by pupils and sustained improvement in their spiritual, moral, cultural, mental, and physical development and prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities, and experiences of adult life.
Secure the commitment of parents and the wider community to the vision and direction of the school to create and implement a strategic plan, underpinned by sound financial planning, which identifies priorities and targets for ensuring that pupils achieve high standards and make progress, increasing teachers’ effectiveness and securing school improvement.
To ensure that all those involved in the school are committed to its aims, motivated to achieve them, and involved in meeting long, medium- and short-term objectives and targets which secure the educational success of the school.
To ensure that the management, finance, organisation, and administration of the school support its vision and aims.
To ensure that policies and practices take account of school data and inspection research findings.
Produce and implement clear, evidence-based improvement plans and policies for the development of the school and its facilities.
Encourage creativity, innovation, and the use of appropriate new technologies to achieve excellence.
Ensure that strategic planning takes account of the diversity, values and experience of the school and the UAE community at large.
To monitor, evaluate and review the effects of policies, priorities, and targets of the school in practice and take action if necessary.

Leading Teaching and Learning

To ensure that all pupils receive a good quality education through a programme designed to promote a stimulating style of learning in a safe & healthy school environment.
To ensure a consistent and continuous school-wide focus on pupils’ achievement, using data and benchmarks to monitor progress in every child’s…

Principal, Education Administration