Yasmina British Academy is an outstanding British 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, A Level and BTEC results in the UAE. Our learning culture is under pinned by our core values of excellence, respect, passion, collaboration, and creativity allowing all students to thrive. Furthermore, 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. 

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. 

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. 

Responsibilities

We are seeking an outstanding leader and exemplary classroom practitioner to join Yasmina British Academy. This role carries whole-school responsibilities (FS1–Year 13) with a specific focus on raising standards in Ministry of Education subjects.

Applications are welcomed from leaders across all phases, cycles, or subject specialisms. This position is not ring-fenced to leaders within Arabic, Islamic Studies, or Social Studies and is open to candidates from all subject backgrounds.

Main Duties    

• Lead the academy in achieving its overall vision and strategic intentions and to contribute to the achievement of relevant targets as set out in the improvement plan and academy self-evaluation.
• Lead strategic direction and development of key areas of the academy, including but not limited to student development, developing innovative curriculum, improvement planning, target setting and ongoing self-evaluation.
• Play a lead role in developing key policies and practices that support the overall aims, vision, and values of the academy.
• To monitor the impact of relevant policies and practices.
• Create a culture of high aspirations and measure the impact of this.
• Lead and manage staff, including but not limited to overseeing recruitment, performance and professional development.
• Lead on the marketing of key aspects of the academy, raise the profile, increase student enrolment, and ensure positive feedback from stakeholders. 
• Communicate effectively and proactively with all stakeholders.
• To be an active member of the Senior Leadership Team and other staff teams as appropriate.
• To assist the Senior leadership team in shaping the direction of the academy and setting high expectations at all times.
• To promote teamwork and motivate staff to ensure positive and effective working relationships and high standards.
• To liaise with Aldar Education to support the strategic development of the academy.
• To deputise in the absence of the Secondary or Primary Principal or as required. 
• To undertake any additional responsibilities as delegated by the school Principals. 
• To take responsibility for own ongoing professional development and performance in line with key performance indicators. 
• To lead on and develop the vision and culture across Ministry of Education subjects, which falls in line with whole academy expectations.
• To lead on the whole school National Identity culture and strategy, raising standards and integration across the wider curriculum and community.
• To develop curriculum strategy to ensure wholistic future focused learning and high standards for all.
• To ensure the academy policies promote effective relationships and compliment the intended culture.
• To lead on key performance standards as directed, ensuring all students thrive.
• To develop stakeholder voice and utilise this to create impact across whole school strategy.
• To lead on key areas of the SEF and SDP ensuring key improvement priorities are identified and actioned based on current research and evidence.
• To lead and oversee the MER and quality assurance processes and present an accurate and coherent account of academy performance in relation to key performance standards to a range of audiences including governors and parents.
• To effectively lead the academy through external review and inspection in key performance standards. 
• To promote positive relationships within and outside the academy to ensure a cohesive school community, including but not limited to developing parent partnerships, working with external agencies or businesses. 
• To set the strategic direction for Middle Leaders to ensure all students are academically challenged and supported to thrive within the academy. 
• To work with the senior leadership team to provide quality provision that supports the whole child and ensures outstanding progress and attainment for all. 
• To provide strategic direction and line manage agreed middle leaders to ensure that the academy exceeds the expectations of students, parents, and other stakeholders.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications    
•    Bachelor Degree in Education or B.Sc degree with PGCE is essential. Desirable Master’s degree.    
•    At least 6 years’ experience, including 4 consecutive years teaching performance exceeds standards and expectations as evidenced by performance appraisal 
•    At least 2 years’ experience in middle leadership role
•    Experience of leading school initiatives that have led to improvement in standards and achievement. 
•    Experience working with parents and external agencies.   
•    with secure knowledge of teaching and learning and a track record of implementing effective strategies to raise standards and plug gaps in learning. 
•    ability to work with data and be effective in using data to diagnose, intervene and evaluate impact upon learning.
•    ability to organize tasks
•    ability to handle multiple tasks
•    ability to exercise good judgment
•    must possess leadership skills
•    must appropriately handle confidential information