Full time Offered Salary : د.إ1,500,022,000.0 - د.إ1,500,022,000.0 / Monthly

EYFS Phase Leader NAS Abu Dhabi School

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Job Description

NAS Abu Dhabi School is presently accepting applications from suitable candidate for the job role of EYFS Phase Leader. The selected candidate will work closely alongside Primary colleagues to create an outstanding environment which will ensure their school offers the very best international experience for students, delivering learning opportunities inside and outside the classroom to an outstanding level for their students. Outside of the classroom, the role of a founding member of the Primary team requires an empathy and understanding of private education in the overseas market, and a willingness to support the school in marketing, recruiting and retaining the student body as we continue to grow.

Responsibilities of EYFS Phase Leader

  • Enable exemplary teaching practice across the team and wider school.
  • Ensure all learners receive the highest quality of teaching and learning in all lessons.
  • Ensure effective use of technology in teaching so that learning is enhanced, and students have better chances to make connections, receive timely feedback and learn from, and with each other.
  • Secure excellent modelling of processes so that students not only know what excellent looks like but how to go about achieving it.
  • Demonstrate and model excellence in teaching and learning for all students in your care.
  • Develop all staff members (teachers and support staff) in the performance of their work:
    • Provide clear expectations and guidance.
    • Provide quality assurance and effective feedback.
    • Support and guide them in their journey to excellence.
  • Ensure information on student progress is used to improve teaching and learning.
  • Ensure students receive effective and appropriate education according to their individual needs and abilities.
  • Ensure students meet all targets and secure enjoyment and achievement in learning and learning how to learn.
  • Secure the highest standards of academic achievement, well beyond UK and international expectations.
  • You will be an excellent communicator who will work well with all members of the community. You will have a strong focus on being the best teacher you can be and will also participate fully in the extra curricular aspects of school life.
  • You have to be mindful of the joint accountability you hold in ensuring that what you do as a team builds on the continuity of what has gone before and what comes next. You will be highly skilled as a teacher and excellent at working with others.
  • You will link with those in your team and teams across the school to secure effective working partnerships.

What Will You Do More

  • You will be responsible for encouraging and developing further our culture of inspiration, enjoyment and success.
  •  You are in effect responsible for enabling your team to secure the very best provision and outcomes for all the students in your care, whilst bearing in mind you are part of a bigger group.
  • You will be enabling those in your team to be the best teachers they can be whilst moving forward together as part of the whole school. You will ensure the setting is compliant with the requirements of the relevant authorities.

Assessment:

  • Student assessment is accurate and student performance information is used effectively and regularly to inform planning and personalize provision.
  • Teachers use formative assessment effectively and timely to maximize opportunities for students to celebrate. Grow and learn from and with each other.
  • Students know what they are doing well, what to improve and how to improve.
  • Information is used to accurately inform parents and students of how well the student is doing and what they need to do improve and how the school and home can work together to achieve this.

Curriculum development:

  • Alongside the curriculum team develop, organize and implement the school’s world class curriculum so that it is meaningful, engaging, motivating and inspiring and builds on skills and knowledge year on year.
  • Enable a curriculum that reflects a 21st Century model (Real Audience and Purpose, research into current examples, develop own possibilities, test and refine further, evaluate and publish/produce).
  • Enhance the use of the Nord Anglia offer (sustainable development goals, Global Campus, MIT, Julliard, DNA) within the curriculum offer.
  • Ensure that the learning and teaching form a coordinated, coherent curriculum entitlement for all individuals.
  • Develop a wide range of curricular and extra curricular activities that provide opportunities for all to excel.
  • Plan opportunities that enable students and staff to contribute to the improvement of their society in Abu Dhabi, in the UAE and internationally.
  • Use clear communication channels and links when developing curriculum changes.

Leading and Managing Staff:

  • Build an effective, cohesive, high performing team.
  • Develop a team vision and ethos in line with the agreed school vision, mission and aims.
  • Enable continued development and learning of each member of the team.
  • Support professional development and growth through effective use of school tools and resources (e.g. Performance Management, CSI, Professional Learning Mondays, Nord Anglia University, Coaching etc.)
  • Model leadership behaviors in how you collaborate and build effective partnerships (inclusion, curriculum team, other school departments, NA partnerships and wider) that enhance the provision of the team.
  • Develop a commercial awareness of the organization.
  • Make use of leadership tools and approaches (running effective meetings, SWOT analysis, personal profiling, Sigmoid Change curve etc.) to grow leadership potential in your team.
  • Communicate effectively within the team and across the school community, securing the commitment of parents in the journey of their child’s learning.
  • Enable effective self evaluation of the team (including student voice). With the team so that the team know how well they are doing, what to improve and how to improve.
  • Make effective use of other adults in the team, deploying them strategically to enable effective provision for all students.
  • Ensure policies and guidelines are lived in the way the team act and behave in their daily role.
  • To promote and develop effective communications and links with parents. Provide positive responses to concerns and problems regarding their children’s education.
  • Carry out any other duties as reasonably required and directed from the school leadership team.

Wellbeing and Safeguarding:

  • Ensure the team understand their roles and responsibilities in keeping children and themselves safe.
  • Maintain an ethos in which all individuals feel valued and where everyone feels safe and able to thrive.

Job Requirements of EYFS Phase Leader

  • Master’s degree in Early Years education or a related field.
  • Minimum 3 year experience in similar role.

Skills & Knowledge Desired of EYFS Phase Leader

  • You will have a positive mindset and will always do your very best for students, for parents and for colleagues.
  • You will have strong experience of the UK national curriculum; further experience of international education will be an added advantage.
  • You will have good interpersonal skills and the ability and confidence to build strong working relationships. The flexibility and open mindedness required to adapt quickly to a fast paced international environment are essential.
  • You will understand the need to be an exceptional role model and ambassador for their school, both inside & out of the classroom and beyond the school itself.
  • The Early Years Lead role is a significant role in developing and enabling the school to continue to thrive and achieve its mission and vision.

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