Primary Teacher - Qatar - August 2022

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 Wellington School is a premium school offering the National Curriculum for England from the ages of 3 – 18. The school opened in 2015 and has undergone rapid growth during this time, making it one of the leading schools offering an authentic British style education in Qatar. We are ambitious for all our students and staff, and aspire for excellence in all we do. Our strong community ethos and culture is built around a clear set of traditional values and behaviours, including integrity, honesty, respect, empathy and hard work, in which we expect every member of our community to exhibit. At WSQ we believe that by providing a supportive and challenging learning environment alongside high quality teaching, every student should thrive and succeed. They should have the opportunity to explore their strengths and interests whether that is in academics, sports, performing arts or more. Through this approach our aim is to ensure that when students leave WSQ they are well prepared for the rapidly changing world, not only with the desired qualifications but also with a ‘can do’ mindset, a love of learning and the resilience to effectively overcome future challenges.

This ambition is underpinned and reinforced by the fact that we have recently adopted the High Performance Learning (HPL) philosophy with the aim of becoming a ‘World Class HPL’ School.

THE GEMS WELLINGTON CLUSTER

WSQ is part of the wider GEMS Wellington group of schools within the UAE, who bring with them a long and sustained history of delivering high quality education. The schools collaborate and work closely together to ensure the reach and impact of every initiative to improve student outcomes is maximized. Each school is unified by the core Wellington vision, fundamental to the ethos and fabric of what it means to be part of the GEMS Wellington family, whilst at the same time retaining their own unique characteristics. This partnership brings significant benefits for both our students and teachers including enhanced social, cultural and academic learning opportunities, sporting and performing arts events and access to a vast range of professional development pathways. The sharing of outstanding practice and dialogue amongst our highly talented leadership teams and teaching and learning community, constantly allows us to further raise standards in the pursuit of excellence. This is an exciting time to be part of the GEMS Wellington network. 

About the Role

We are looking for passionate, dynamic Primary Teachers (KS2)  to join our existing team at GEMS Wellington School, Doha from August 2022. The successful candidates will be experienced teachers, excited to join our world class school, driven to provide education at an exceptional level. GEMS teachers enjoy an outstanding school environment in which to deliver a dynamic and creative curriculum to motivated students.

This is a fantastic opportunity for UK trained teachers to join a global, leading company and a world-class International School.

The successful applicants will have the following:

• A certified teaching qualification and an accompanying degree such as B.Ed, PGCE, PGDE or equivalent specializing in Primary Years

• At minimum 2 years of recent and demonstrable Primary Years (KS2) teaching experience at a British Curriculum School

• Confidence in teaching the NCfE Primary framework

• The desire to provide Outstanding teaching and learning

• The aspiration to work in a world-class school with real prospects for enhancing their career

The aspiration to work in a world-class school with real prospects for enhancing their Follow the link to read an article in the TES by one of our teachers at Wellington Qatar. Working in Qatar: 

https://www.tes.com/jobs/careers-advice/teaching-overseas/everything-you-need-know-about-teaching-qatar

GEMS Wellington School, Qatar, is located in Al Wakrah, a growing city on the outskirts of Doha, the capital of the country. On the western edge of Al Wakrah, you will find the shores of the Persian Gulf, making its name originally as a fishing and pearling village. Over the years, Al Wakrah has grown significantly and is now considered the second largest city in Qatar and is home to one of the stadiums that will be used in the Qatar 2022 Football World Cup.

Doha itself, is a modern and thriving city of over 2 million people from all over the world. The rapid pace of development is in line with the ambitious vision of the Qatari Government to become a leading advanced society, providing the highest standard of living for its people. Qatar has also recently been ranked as one of the safest cities in the world.

Most of our teaching staff, live on the Pearl, an exclusive man-made development with access to luxury living, great facilities, shops, restaurants etc. Being in Qatar also opens up a number of exciting short haul travel destinations to explore during holiday time.

Teaching at GEMS is not just a job, it’s a career. Our teachers enjoy free access to leading CPD programmes and have the opportunity to grow with the company on a global scale.

If you are excited by this opportunity and are keen to apply please ensure to mention in your cover letter if you will be traveling with a teaching partner and what subject/year groups they are qualified to teach.  Please note: Interviews and hiring of shortlisted candidates may occur prior to the advertised closing date.