Outstanding Secondary History Teacher

Job type: Full Time, Permanent Start date: August 2025 Apply by: 16 February 2025

Job overview

• Start date: August 2025
• Contract: Full-time, indefinite, fully sponsored
• Generous tax-free package including :

o Competitive basic salary plus additional allowances – all tax-free. o Free furnished private accommodation with all utility bills paid. o Free return flights home each year. o Generous paid annual leave. o Free school places, flights, and medical insurance for children. o Allowances for extra baggage and legal documents. o Comprehensive private medical insurance for Qatar and your home country. o Enhanced end-of-service gratuity package for long servers. o Unlimited sunshine in Qatar– consistently ranked as one of the world’s wealthiest and safest countries! Our professional, supportive and tremendously successful secondary team was recently certified one of the best in the world by British Schools Overseas (BSO). We are now looking for an outstanding Secondary History Teacher to join us for the start of the academic year 2025/26. For exceptional candidates, this role offers the opportunity to be considered as Head of History. If you are a UK-qualified teacher with experience of delivering the national curriculum of England – and you have a creative, positive, and professional attitude – we would love to hear from you. About you As part of the secondary team, you will be responsible for planning and delivering the best quality lessons to engage and challenge your students. You will have high standards and expectations in every element of your work. To be considered for a vacancy, you should:

• Hold relevant qualifications, including a bachelor’s degree from a UK university, plus a PGCE.
• Have experience of teaching your subject at Key Stages 3 and 4 (Key Stage 5 desirable).
• Have extensive experience working in a similar school environment and raising outcomes for students of all academic levels.
• Be keen to develop your career, supported by our world-class professional development opportunities.
• Genuinely love what you do – showing enthusiasm, creativity, and energy.
• Be a real team player, always prepared to go the extra mile, spread positivity and support your colleagues as we reach our goal: to become the best International School in the world.

We can also consider applications from outstanding newly qualified teachers (ECTs), whom we can support through to award of Qualified Teacher Status. About us QIS is one of the best international schools both in the nation of Qatar and in the wider Middle East region – we are one of a selected number of schools in the world to hold BSO’s ‘Gold Standard’. We follow the latest National Curriculum for England, and all our non-Arabic teachers have either taught or been trained under the UK system. We have about 2,100 students ranging from 3 to 18 years of age. Safeguarding Qatar International School is committed to equal opportunities, safeguarding, and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All applicants must be willing to undergo recruitment screening processes including an interview, references from past employers, and a Criminal Background check from all countries of adult residence. Please note that the school will also carry out an online search, inclusive of social media, for shortlisted candidates. We require applicants to declare all convictions, cautions and bind-overs, including those regarded as 'spent'. All information provided will be treated as confidential. All applicants, (regardless of position) are requested to read QIS’s safeguarding policy, available on the school website, of our commitment to safeguarding children. Application Please apply by emailing us your CV and a brief covering letter to Recruitment@qis.org explaining why you’d be a great fit for QIS. The closing date for applications is 16th February 2025. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted, and we reserve the right to appoint a suitable candidate before the closing date. Initial interviews may be conducted online or face-to-face if the candidate is in Qatar. Successful candidates will be fully supported all the way through to their joining day – and beyond.

About Qatar International School

• Qatar International School
• United Nations Street, PO Box 5697
• Doha
• Qatar

+974 83 3456 Qatar International School is a British International private school located in Doha, the capital city of the State of Qatar. The school follows the latest National Curriculum of England and Wales for students ranging between 3 and 18 years of age. The school is led and managed by British professionals and it strives to maintain the highest standards of the current British education system, whilst also supporting its Arabic culture and international context. Our long and illustrious history traces its roots back over 40 years to 1977, making us one the oldest British schools in Qatar. Since then, we have changed and grown significantly- including a move to our current location in 2001. A purpose-built campus in the Diplomatic Quarter of Dafna, close to the skyscrapers and business centre of West Bay. The school continues to thrive – expanding and developing its excellent specialist facilities. These include science laboratories, ICT suites, a swimming pool, playing fields, and large sports halls. Indeed, from very small beginnings over 40 years ago, QIS has now grown into one of the largest and most prestigious schools in the country, with more than 2,100 students on role. In 2015, the school received the highest possible grading from the Qatar National Schools Accreditation programme, when inspected by the country’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education. Then, in 2020, QIS achieved two highly prestigious international accreditations: Firstly, QIS was judged to be ‘outstanding’ in every category of the UK government’s British School Overseas (BSO) inspection framework – only the third school, at the time, in the world ever to have achieved this. Secondly, in the same year, QIS became the first school in the world to be awarded Council for International Schools (CIS) accreditation by a new fast-track process for outstanding schools. The final CIS report included over 100 individual commendations and helps to make us one of the most highly regarded educational establishments in the region. Our latest British School Overseas inspection in 2023 was again judged to be “ outstanding” in every category. QIS is also the only school in the Middle East accredited to deliver OLEVI training courses straight from the UK, such as The Outstanding Teacher’s Programme. The school also partners with many other world-renowned training providers to ensure cutting-edge best practice. We are proud to say that quality training for staff is part of the QIS culture.Under the leadership of our Executive Principal, Deane Baker (who joined us in September 2013), we have achieved various national and international accreditations at the highest levels. We hold numerous high achievement awards for our international examination success. Education is highly valued in Qatar. This means our school enjoys working with extremely supportive parents and wonderfully enthusiastic, highly motivated students. Children are taught in Key Stages from KS1 through to KS5 and examinations are taken in GCSE, IGCSE and A Levels using UK examination boards. The vast majority of students leaving QIS move onto higher education in leading universities all over the world but most especially the UK, USA, Canada, UAE, and Qatar itself. The vast majority of teaching staff are UK-trained, and the school prides itself on ensuring it keeps up to date with the best international practice in education and learning. Our student body is truly international, with over 60 different nationalities represented within the current cohort. While the teaching staff are predominantly from the UK and the curriculum is taught in English, the school is adept at integrating students from a wide variety of cultural and academic backgrounds. We hope you will enjoy browsing our website () and we look forward to welcoming you to the school. #J-18808-Ljbffr