Head of Department of Geography at Safa Community School

Job Description

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Job Overview

POST: Secondary Head of Geography (Ability to Teach BTEC Travel & Tourism) at Safa Community School, Dubai

This role is advertised as part of our strategic growth to meet increasing student enrollment and programme demand.

General Professional Responsibilities

• Teaching, including planning and preparing courses and lessons, setting and marking of work and assessing, recording and reporting on the development, progress and attainment in line with the school’s expectations and policy.
• Using data to inform classroom teaching, monitoring and tracking student progress and putting in place timely interventions.
• Preparing students for public examinations, assessing students for the purposes of such examinations, recording and reporting such assessments and attending meetings connected with the conduct of public examinations.
• Communicating and consulting with the parents of students, including the writing of reports.
• Attendance at Parents’ Evenings and Open Evenings.
• Maintaining good order and discipline among the students he/she is teaching.
• Participating in departmental meetings and Open Evenings.
• Working as a member of a team in the shaping of departmental policy and practice, the introduction of curricular initiatives, the preparation and development of programmes of study and methods of teaching and assessment.
• Participating in administrative and organisational tasks in order to ensure the smooth running of the department.
• Keeping up to date with curriculum innovation, participating in arrangements for CPD, contributing to his/her own professional development.
• Working collaboratively with support teachers in the classroom.
• Taking responsibility for the monitoring and support of a beginning teacher taking his/her class, if appropriate.
• Setting work for his/her classes where absence is known in advance and setting work for absent colleagues where required.
• Taking responsibility for a designated area of the curriculum, administration or curriculum innovation or project.
• Carrying out other tasks as reasonably directed by the Head of Department.
• Familiarising themselves with the DSIB inspection framework and the expectations of outstanding teaching and learning in the UAE.
• Being supportive of UAE initiatives and cultural expectations.

Candidate Profile

• Will hold relevant qualifications.
• Must have experience teaching in British Curriculum schools, teaching of both IGCSE and A level.
• Most importantly should be enthusiastic about the subject and be able to convey this to students.
• Have an understanding of assessment and examination requirements for KS3, KS4 and KS5.
• Be an outstanding teacher with the ability to demonstrate outstanding practice and progress of students.
• Works effectively as part of a team.
• Actively keeps up to date with the developments in their subject.
• Has a willingness to develop as a professional, taking opportunities to train further within the department, or outside to progress in their career.

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2026-04-11 07:15:17