Assistant Principal, Pastoral Vacancy in UAE at GEMS Education

GEMS Education is offering a job opportunity at THE WESTMINSTER SCHOOL - DUBAI, UAE as an Assistant Principal, Pastoral. The successful candidate will have strategic responsibility for pastoral systems, inclusion and wellbeing across the whole school (approx. 5000 students, primary and secondary).

1. Developing, maintaining and regularly reviewing effective behaviour systems to ensure outstanding learning behaviours across all parts of the school.
2. Ensuring systems for child safeguarding and child protection are robust and improved across the school.
3. Overseeing the Inclusion department to ensure personalized learning is supported in every aspect; be it academically, socially, or emotionally.
4. Accountability for the execution of the wellbeing strategy and initiatives across the school.
5. Delivering appropriate training for staff to ensure that they can effectively implement behaviour and safeguarding systems to ensure consistency across the school.

• Experience of working with data management system
• The ability to work constructively as part of a team
• Understanding roles and responsibilities, including own

1. The ability to build and form good relationships with young people, colleagues and other professionals
2. Commitment to the highest standards of child protection
3. The ability to work in a fast paced, high pressure environment, without distractions
4. Full training for safeguarding in schools
5. Working knowledge of Data Protection
6. Knowledge of, and ability to utilise, ICT to access and retrieve information. Particularly Microsoft Word & Excel
7. Excellent administrative and organisational skills
8. The ability to communicate effectively with students, staff, parents and other related professionals both orally and in writing
9. Attention to detail and accuracy
10. Ability to work with different agencies to improve student outcomes
11. Ability to deal with ambiguity and adapt to and drive change as required
12. This role would be suitable for somebody with experience of pastoral systems in a large school looking to take the next step to senior leadership or a senior pastoral leader in a small school looking to extend their experience.

About Your Benefits:

All positions attract an excellent remuneration package.

About Application Process:

If you meet the criteria and you are enthusiastic about the role, we would welcome your application.

To complete the application, you would need the following document(s):

Resume/CV

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In line with the UAE's Emiratisation goals, GEMS welcomes and encourages applications from UAE nationals to join our fast-growing team.

About GEMS Academy:

Trusted for over 60 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 170,000 students from over 176 countries through GEMS owned and managed schools globally; over 270,000 students access resources through our services division.

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