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Job Description
We are looking for outstanding Primary Teachers to join us at GEMS World Academy, Abu Dhabi for AY2024/2025. This is a fantastic opportunity for outstanding teachers and educators to start, or continue their international career with the leading global education company. Our teachers enjoy an outstanding, state of the art school facility and environment in which to deliver a dynamic learning opportunities to a highly motivated international student body.
As well as being a great place to work, Abu Dhabi is a vibrant, cosmopolitan, rapidly expanding city where the sun shines all year round. Teachers in Abu Dhabi enjoy an excellent lifestyle as well as extensive travel and leisure opportunities around the region and further afield.
Teaching at GEMS is not just a job, it’s a career. Our teachers enjoy access to leading CPD programmes globally and have the opportunity to grow with the company on a global scale. GEMS teachers are at the forefront of opportunities for growth and development; with most of our leaders coming from within the GEMS network of schools.
Skills
The successful applicant should have the following:
- Hold a BEd or Bachelors degree with PGCE / PGDE or equivalent
- A minimum of 2 years of solid and demonstrable experience teaching Primary level, ideally within an PYP Curriculum School, however this is not mandatory.
- Familiarity with the IB and/or NCfE and GCSE frameworks and subjects is preferred.
- A growth mindset and willingness to collaborate with colleagues to ensure high performance for all.
- Ability to build strong relationships with students and their families
- Professional commitment to becoming an High Performance Learning Global Lead Teacher
- A creative and enthusiastic approach both in and out of the classroom
- Excellent IT and interpersonal communication skills
- The aspiration to work in a world-class school with real prospects for enhancing your career
If you are excited by this opportunity and are keen to apply please ensure to mention in your cover letter if you will be traveling with a teaching partner and what subject/year groups they are qualified to teach.
All positions attract an excellent remuneration package including: Competitive tax-free salary, individual fully furnished accommodation, free schooling for 1 child, private medical insurance, annual airfares to country of residence and end of Service Gratuity.
GEMS Teachers also have free access to our loyalty app GEMS rewards www.gemsrewards.com which provides significant savings on day-to-day life in the UAE. We offer thousands of discounts and 2 for 1 offers on everything from flights, hotels, restaurants and retail outlets, making your salary go further and enhancing the opportunity to save whilst working overseas.
GEMS Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all of its students and staff. A UK-enhanced DBS or equivalent police check is a pre-requisite for all appointments.
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GEMS WORLD ACADEMY - ABU DHABI
GEMS World Academy - Abu Dhabi is a dynamic, diverse, and inclusive community that captivates hearts and minds, challenges and empowers learners, fosters collaboration and unity, and inspires authentic local and global action. We are committed to creating a Culture of Dignity whereby all members feel safe, valued and included - a place where they belong. We actively foster a climate that encourages all members of the WAA learning community to express openness, care, empathy, agency and opportunity. We nurture, we challenge and we inspire. With a passionate team of dedicated educators, we draw experience and expertise from across the globe. We are so much more than the traditional concept of a school. We are a proud and supportive learning community with mutual respect and tolerance at our core. As well as being a thoroughly international family, we recognize and respect the importance of our host country’s language and culture, and actively promote these at all times. Offering the International Baccalaureate Organization’s (IBO) Primary Years Programme from FS1 – Y9, our students learn at an early age what it means to belong to a multicultural, diverse and inter-connected world. In September 2025, we will be expanding our provision to include Y10, commencing our journey to MYP authorization. Learners at GEMS World Academy Abu Dhabi develop intercultural understanding, social and environmental stewardship as well high levels of personal and collective achievement.