Teacher of Mandarin Chinese - August 2024 start - Sunmarke School

About us: 

Fortes Education has been a leading education provider in the UAE for over four decades with premium international schools and nurseries that have experienced outstanding success and growth. Our schools offer the most innovative and character-building education in the entire Middle East region.  

Our core ethos and philosophy of education is Positive Education (PosEd). Through PosEd, our schools foster active engagement in learning, celebrating character strengths and accomplishments. We encourage children to cultivate fulfilling relationships with others and seek meaning and purpose in their own lives. We enable children to become happy learners and develop into innovative thinkers, confident young adults, and life-long learners. Our students develop resilience, a growth mindset and deep character strengths that allow them to flourish in an ever-changing world. 

About Sunmarke School – Where Amazing Happens 

Sunmarke School provides an ambitious and inspiring, values-based education that nurtures the hearts and minds of students so that they can flourish and achieve their dreams. Powered by our unique signature programs, Sunmarke is a uniquely innovative school, transforming young lives. This was reflected in Sunmarke School winning the coveted ‘Most Innovative School’ award at the Which School Advisor ceremony in Dubai and London.  

Sunmarke is an all–through school which offers a premium education across a fantastic range of pathways for students including the National Curriculum of England, GCSE/IGCSE, ‘A’ Levels, BTEC and the IB Diploma and Career Related Programmes. We also offer a suite of Signature Programmes unrivalled in Dubai. With unique experiences in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, students learn in Forest School settings, as well as utilising cutting-edge hydroponic technology to examine how science can support sustainability in future terrains. Our world-class STEAM centre and curriculum offers students an incredible opportunity to apply their learning in solving real-world problems, from Foundation Stage through to Year 9. We run best-in-class mini-MBA programmes for our Year 10 to 13 students in conjunction with the Peter Jones Academy, to ensure their future success in business and entrepreneurship. We are technologically innovative and run comprehensive AI programmes for students in all core subjects, as well as deepening other subjects through Augmented and Virtual Reality AR/VR experiences. We have outstanding performing arts opportunities with fantastic facilities and amazing teachers to help our more creative students truly find their voice. Sunmarke School was judged by the Dubai School Inspection Bureau (DSIB) as a ‘Very Good’ school in our 3rd year of operation and ‘Outstanding’ in our British Schools Overseas (BSO) inspection in 2019. 

We present an exciting opportunity to join our all through school and to play an important part in our journey to “outstanding”. Sunmarke School, Dubai is one of our flagship schools, located at a prime location in Jumeirah Village Triangle.  

About you: 

We are seeking to appoint a full-time teacher of Mandarin Chinese for a mid-August 2024 start. You will join our dynamic teaching team and our Head of Global Languages to work across EYFS & Primary. We are seeking an inspirational teacher who has the flair and expertise to engage and inspire students through their teaching of the Chinese language and culture. The successful candidate will demonstrate integrity and a determination to ensure all students thrive within our provision. 

This role represents a rare and exciting opportunity for any candidate who would like to be part of a dynamic team and who shares our vision to see our Mandarin Chinese provision rapidly expand and flourish across our schools. 

We are looking for certain qualities: 

• Skilled in the best global educational practices 
• Committed to developing and inspiring every pupil, to believe that they can and will succeed 
• Able to teach through the “multiple intelligences”, to develop the whole-child 
• Able to use APPs and technology to extend and enrich each pupil’s learning experience 
• Outstanding role models who embody our core values 
• Passionate about providing enriched learning opportunities for children in and out of the classroom.  
• Excellent communicators who can ignite a passion for learning in our students 
• Able to make a significant contribution to our extra-curricular activities (ECA) programme and wider campus life 
• Strong academic background, work-ethic, well-organized having excellent interpersonal skills 
• Dynamic and well-qualified candidate holding as a minimum a teaching qualification in teaching Mandarin Chinese as a second / foreign language with a minimum of 2 years’ experience teaching in an international context. 
• A strong academic background and either a n ative speaker of Mandarin or a good honours degree in Mandarin 

Our Offer: 

• Excellent tax-free salary 
• Furnished Accommodation  
• Relocation Allowance (applicable to overseas appointments only) 
• Medical Insurance for self 
• Annual Air-Ticket and paid vacations  
• Tuition Fee Concession for up to 2 minor dependent(s) 
• State-of-the-art facilities and amenities in a newly built campus in a prime location in Dubai 
• An enthusiastic learning community of students, teachers, parents, and Board members, who are dedicated to maximise student achievement, and creating positive learning opportunities in and out of the classroom. 
•  Working within a team of highly driven and supportive colleagues 
• Excellent professional development 
• Working in Dubai, one of the world’s most sought-after work and travel destinations 

Application Process: 

If you have the passion, energy, and commitment to drive accelerated outcomes for young people, we will welcome your application. In return, you will join a rapidly evolving organisation that can offer you a central role in our future growth plans. 

Candidates are invited to complete our Online Application by visiting: http://forteseducation.com/Careers/Current-Openings 

Interviews will take place either face-to-face in Dubai or by video conferencing if the applicant is not based in Dubai. 

The closing date for applications is the 29th of February 2024. Please note that due to the expected volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview. The school reserves the right to make suitable appointments before the official closing date, and therefore we would encourage candidates to apply early in the process. The appointment start date will be mid-Aug 2024. 

Fortes Education is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a satisfactory International Child Protection Certificate, plus resident country Police checks.