23 Academic Principal jobs in the United Arab Emirates

We are seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Deputy Head of Primary to join our team.

The post holder will be responsible for supporting the school's vision and mission, as well as all policies, academic standards, and pastoral support in the Primary school.

Main Responsibilities

• Supporting the Principal and Head of Primary in leading the Primary school
• Liaising with staff and students to ensure effective communication and collaboration
• Developing and implementing strategies to improve student outcomes and achievement
• Maintaining high academic standards across all subjects and phases
• Ensuring that teaching is underpinned by subject expertise

To be successful in this role, you will need:

Key Qualifications

• A relevant degree and/or qualifications in education or a related field
• Proven experience of working in a leadership position in a primary school setting
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Strong organizational and time management skills

Desirable Qualities

• Experience of curriculum development and implementation
• Knowledge of national and international curricula and assessment frameworks
• Ability to inspire and motivate staff and students

This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic and supportive team and contribute to the success of our students. We offer:

Professional Development

• Ongoing training and professional development opportunities

Collaborative Environment

• A supportive and inclusive team environment

If you are a motivated and talented individual who is passionate about education and making a positive impact on the lives of children, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your application, including your CV and a covering letter, to us today. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

This role involves ensuring the smooth operation of school facilities and services. Key responsibilities include maintaining playing fields, gardens, all-weather surfaces, tennis courts, and land drainage.

• School Operations : Manage the upkeep of school buildings and grounds, ensuring cleanliness, safety, and security.
• Administrative Support : Organize and deliver administration and support services across the school, deploying staff efficiently.
• Council Support : Provide strategic guidance to senior leaders and corporate office on business, financial, and operational matters.
• Staff Development : Offer high-quality professional development and training for all staff, contributing to school achievements.

• Manage maintenance of school site and buildings.
• Oversee campus lighting, heating, ventilation, water provision, energy conservation, and waste management.
• Purchase, repair, and maintain furniture and fittings within the school and staff accommodation units.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent advanced diploma.
• Certificate in School Business Management/Facilities Management/NEBOSH or IOSH.
• At least 5 years' experience in a senior-level position within a service-oriented industry.
• Fluent English communication skills, written and oral.

Urgent Hiring

Candidate must be qualified and experienced for the role. KHDA approval is mandatory.

Job Description (Principal)

Reports to: The principal

Role: The principals role is both academic and administrative; the principal ensures the general implementation of Schools academic pastoral and administrative processes. The principal oversees and evaluates staff performance and professional development.

Curriculum Development:

• Supervising curriculum outlines in collaboration with the curriculum coordinator
  

• Curriculum supervision needs to ensure that:
  

• Selecting curriculum related resources as aligned with the state standards
  

• Liaising with KHDA for legislative requirements.
  

Supervising Staff professional development and performance:

• Consults with the PD coordinator in drafting the annual professional development plan.
  

• Reviews the PD plan to ensure effective provisions of training opportunities as required by the teachers.
  

• Supervises class observation schedules
  

• Monitors the implementation of the PD plan
  

• Supervises staff performance management in collaboration with the PD coordinator.
  

• Evaluating teachers performance and target setting
  

• Consults with head of school team leaders in staff continuation of services.
  

• Updates principal of staff performance.
  

Pastoral care:

• Regulating class lists in consultation with the registrar heads of school to ensure that classes are grouped dynamically with abilities and gender balanced.
  

• Ensures that health and safety is maintained as per the health and safety policies.
  

• Meets regularly with supervisors and heads of school in reviewing supervision duties to maximize safety.
  

• Ensures that foods and beverages served by school cafeteria are of high standards as per the health and safety expectations from DHA.
  

• Drafting behavior health and safety policies.
  

• Supervises meetings with parents teachers and heads of school in regards to behavior or academic challenges.
  

• Collaborating with services manager in school in planning and ensuring cleaning of the premises are of high standards.
  

Extra curricular activities:

• Supervising assembly plans ensuring that they are linked to relevant topics culture appropriate and in alignment to school vision mission and core values
  

• Planning extra curricular activities that are aligned to the corevalues
  

• Supervising planning of trips ensuring that trips are an extended learning opportunity linked to the topics or concepts taught in class.
  

• Plans concerts with heads of school team leaders
  

Member of the PTA (parent teacher association)

• PTA meetings
  

• Ensures that confidentiality is maintained and reports meeting minutes to the Principal.
  

• Collaborates with the PRE (Parents relation Executive) in effective communication between parents and teachers.
  

• Follow up parental concerns in regards to behavior and academics.
  

Recruitment:

• Shortlisting potential candidates
  

• Supervises the panel of interviewers in the recruiting process
  

• Monitoring the orientation and induction process for newly recruited staff in collaboration with team leaders and head of schools.
  

Finances:

• Assisting the financial executive in drafting the annual budget plan
  

• Regulating requisitions made for purchases of classroom resources.
  

• Approving requisitions made for extracurricular activities. (concerts ASA assemblies)
  

• Assisting in Record Keeping: assists in completion of records and reports and in the supervision and inventory of necessary supplies textbooks equipment and materials.
  

Required Experience:

Staff IC

LEAMS Education encompassing UK curriculum and CBSE schools in Dubai is driven by a unified philosophy of excellence. We are committed to fostering our employees' careers and development offering opportunities aligned with our Learning and Development goals. Through vibrant Continuous Professional Development programs we harness the collective expertise of our team facilitating an exchange of knowledge ideas and best practices.

We offer long-term employment with a tax-free salary, medical insurance, free tuition for employees' children in group-affiliated schools, and additional benefits as per UAE labor law making our job package highly attractive.

We are seeking a dynamic, inspiring, and innovative leader to guide our esteemed CBSE Curriculum school towards excellence. As a School Principal, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the school's outstanding achievements and future successes.

Job Purpose
The School Principal serves as the strategic and academic leader of the school responsible for managing the policies, regulations, and procedures to ensure that all students are supervised in a safe learning environment in compliance with the KHDA framework and CBSE guidelines. He/She assumes full responsibility for all aspects of the school including implementation of the instructional program, school improvement plan, SEF, curriculum development, extracurricular activities, discipline system, emergency procedures, facilities operation, school/community relations, business affairs, and the utilization and development of staff and faculty. He/she has to actively lead the school in emphasizing & implementing UAE's National Agenda vision.

Job Scope
The prospective candidate is expected to have sufficient exposure to DSIB inspection frameworks and to provide turnover leadership to the school from Pre KG to Grade 12 pedagogically and administratively as well as positioning the school as an innovative 21st-century learning environment.

Key Accountabilities

• Embrace and encourage the ethos and standards of excellence as defined in the Groups Core Values and school governance framework.
• Vision, Mission, and Education Strategy: Establish the vision, mission, and education strategy for the school and systematically implement long-term plans in order to accomplish turnover results.
• Leadership: Provide professional leadership in terms of curriculum development, teaching, and learning to deliver consistently high standards of education.
• Student attainment and progress: Ensure high-quality student achievements by raising the standard of attainment and progress and improve the quality of teaching and learning by enriching curriculum and assessment standards.
• Partnership with the parent community: Provide parents with timely feedback about the academic and general progress of their children to create a partnership to ensure students' growth and progress. Organise parent-teacher meetings. Provide students with feedback on their strengths and performance improvement needs so they can monitor their progress. Promote the Groups parental engagement strategy. Maintain appropriate records for this purpose.
• Pastoral Care: Create and foster a culture of Pastoral care at every level concerning teachers and students and promote responsible stewardship to ensure that the educational objectives are delivered and the morale of the school community is maintained to exceptional standards.
• Performance Management: Ensure that well-developed performance management systems are properly implemented within the school to track the performance of teachers, admin, and support staff to maintain and enhance expected achievement standards of school performance.
• School Procedures and Processes: Establish education and administration procedures and processes to facilitate the school strategy effectively and efficiently and implement all standard operating procedures as identified by the corporate office.
• Students' personal and social development: Ensure that the school is designed and enriched to promote the comprehensive, balanced, and value-based development of each student. Ensure that the Group Core Values are embedded and lived to build a consistent and distinctive value framework for educating students.
• Relationship Management: Establish and maintain good customer relationships between a) Students and Teachers b) Parents and Teachers c) the school and the community to widen the educational horizons of students, build good community relations, and favourably project the image of the school promoting positively the services provided by the Leams Education.
• Resource Management: Effectively utilise and manage all resources including staff, equipment, and infrastructure to run a cost-effective school.
• Human Resource Development: Ensure that the school is staffed with high-calibre professionals who are motivated, trained, developed, engaged, and retained to deliver the school's education and business objectives. Participate in the selection of teaching, admin, and support staff and organise appropriate induction and training to enhance effectiveness.
• School Information System: Ensure that all vital information about the school and academic achievements are captured and reported so that timely and appropriate management decisions are taken.
• Health & Safety: Effectively and smoothly administer all support facilities such as transport, clinic services, maintenance, and infrastructure to ensure efficient and outstanding health & safety guidelines across the school also ensuring the school complies with all compliance requirements from KHDA, DM, DHA, RTA, etc.
• Ensure the Groups policies, procedures, and codes of conduct are followed at all times.
• Initiate effort and energy beyond the typical work day where the tasks require additional commitment.
• Attend staff meetings and serve on committees as required.
• Perform other duties as requested by the Board of Governors.

Our ideal candidate:

• Must be a confident leader, communicator, and presenter.
• Must possess excellent organisational and planning skills.
• Superior time management skills.
• Be adept with the latest technological developments in teaching, learning, curriculum & assessments.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of current MOE/KHDA/CBSE regulations.
• The candidate who has good knowledge and expertise in handling UAE's National Agenda.
• Self-motivated with a positive and professional approach to learning and development.
• He/ She should have strong administrative & academic leadership, communication, self-initiative, and stakeholder-balancing capabilities.
• Establish and promote high standards and expectations for all students and staff for academic performance and responsibility for behaviour.

Desired Qualifications:

Masters Degree in Education/leadership/school management /NPQH/Masters Degree with a PGCE/PGDE (QTS or relative field; Must have equalization certificate for degrees.

Having worked as Principal or Vice-principal or as an SLT for a minimum of 3-5 years.

Experience in UAE will be an added advantage.

Proven track record in leadership and pedagogic excellence.

Required Documents:

Those interested in applying for the position are required to submit the following:

Job application accompanied by detailed resume and minimum 2 reference details.

Police clearance certificate.

Expected DOJ: Immediate/March 2025

Closing date of application: 10 January 2025

If you meet the above criteria and are passionate and committed to seeking this amazing opportunity please apply with your updated resume.