Secondary Principal - August 2024
GEMS Wellington Academy - Al Khail
United Arab Emirates
- Expired
- Salary:
- An excellent remuneration package is available for the successful candidate.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- August 2024
- Apply by:
- 8 April 2024
Job overview
GEMS Wellington Academy Al Khail is seeking an outstanding Secondary Principal to lead our secondary school from August 2024.
Building on the considerable success already achieved by the secondary school, we seek a dynamic and inspirational leader who understands what it means to drive school improvement through being evidence-informed and research driven.
Steered by our vision of ‘empowering today for a limitless tomorrow’, our new Secondary Principal will be able to contribute to, and build on, our three strategic pillars:
- The science of learning and our commitment to providing students with the best learning experiences possible through evidence informed practice.
- Social enterprise and embedding the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals so our students understand their responsibility to the common good of humanity.
- Student agency and innovation, where we provide our students with voice, choice, and opportunity.
Opened in September 2013, GEMS Wellington Academy Al Khail is an international world class school where all students excel and make significant progress well beyond age-related expectations. We deliver programmes for learning that are rooted in the National Curriculum for England but enhanced by best practice globally so that students achieve the best possible academic and social outcomes.
We are a fully inclusive school with 106 nationalities represented in our student body. The diversity of our school is one of our greatest strengths and our students learn to truly understand what it means to participate and thrive in an exciting, multi-cultural environment. With access to outstanding facilities, our students also can excel in whatever their chosen passion is.
Responsibilities:
- Full operational, financial, and educational oversight of the secondary school.
- Contributing to the strategic direction of the academy.
- Providing inspiring, empathetic leadership.
- Maintaining the highest standards of student achievement and student behaviour to ensure exceptional outcomes for all.
- Ensuring robust quality assurance procedures are in place for all performance areas of the secondary school.
- Using rigorous, data-informed self-evaluation and self-reflection processes for continuous school improvement.
- Promoting the school to ensure its significant achievements are recognised both locally and internationally.
- Ensuring the highest quality of professional learning is in place for all staff and has impact on school improvement and student outcomes.
- Developing a culture of high challenge and high support where all staff and students feel empowered to thrive and succeed.
- Embedding, and building on, the evidence-informed and research driven approach already established.
Qualifications and Experience:
- QTS (or equivalent), bachelor’s degree, PGCE (or equivalent), and a proven record of outstanding teaching.
- A Master’s in Education (leadership) and/or NPQH preferred but not essential.
- Significant experience in a leadership role within a secondary school.
- Evidence of ongoing professional learning in education, teaching and learning, and leadership.
- A demonstrable track record in sustained school improvement and raising standards.
- An in-depth knowledge of the National Curriculum for England and its implementation.
- Ability to develop and maintain positive relationships whilst developing a high challenge high support environment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage with a diverse school community and establish strong partnerships.
- Ability to adapt to changing circumstances and embrace innovative educational practices.
As a GEMS school, Wellington Academy Al Khail is committed to the highest standards of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All staff are expected to share this commitment. An offer of employment will be subject to rigorous safeguarding checks.
If you believe you have the skills and experience to lead GEMS Wellington Academy, Al Khail, Secondary School please submit your CV and a cover letter detailing your suitability for the position, to Danielle West at principalrecruitment@gemseducation.com. If you would welcome the opportunity for an informal and confidential discussion about the role before applying, please email Danielle West at the same email. Applications will be followed up as soon as they are received.
Applications close Monday the 8th of April at 12:00pm.
To explore more details on the exceptional facilities and educational practices of GEMS Wellington Academy Al Khail, please visit the school website at https://www.gemswellingtonacademy-alkhail.com
About GEMS Wellington Academy - Al Khail
GEMS Wellington Academy Al Khail is a premium National Curriculum for England School, located in the rapidly expanding Dubai Hills development. The Primary section opened in September 2013 and Secondary opened in September 2014 with current enrolment at 2500. This is an international world class school dedicated to fostering a passion for excellence in learning and in life.
Recently rated ‘Outstanding’ by BSO, children learn in a vibrant, inclusive and creative learning environment that encourages teamwork, critical thinking, independent inquiry and risk-taking. Our staff are recruited almost exclusively from the UK, although applications from other countries are encouraged, and are highly skilled and experienced in delivering the National Curriculum. Teaching is significantly enhanced through the use of technology, which is used predominantly by students to create and present new content. Innovation and creativity are actively encouraged and the learning programme is significantly enhanced by a rich and varied extra-curricular programme of over 100 activities, which emphasises our belief that students should be learning from the moment they arrive in school until they leave at the end of the day. We are an internationally minded school with students representing over 80 nationalities and are an accredited member of the Council of British International Schools and British School in the Middle East. We are proud of our high achieving culture: our expectation of all students is that they strive to excel and make significant progress well beyond expectations commensurate to their starting point.
The GEMS Wellington Cluster
WEK 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.
Principal
Campbell Douglas
Values and Vision
Our Vision
Empowering students to aspire, create and excel in the world that is, so they can help create a world that will be.
Our Mission
Our aims are to provide a positive and exciting learning environment that encourages all children to take responsibility for their own learning and personal development. This is underpinned by consistent excellence in delivering the British curriculum in a way which is both creative and innovative
Our 3 pillars are:
The Science of Learning
o placing evidence informed practice at the heart of all we do
o understanding of how the brain learns best to maximise learning opportunities
o being future driven and developing the skills required to thrive in the future world
Global Citizenship
o embedding the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
o showing care and concern for others by respecting and celebrating our differences
o respecting and promoting the culture, language and heritage of the UAE and beyond
Student Innovation and Agency
o the value and importance of working collaboratively
o voice, choice and ownership of learning
o taking risks and persisting with challenges
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