Art Teacher - Sept 2025

Salary: Competitive Tax Free Salary. Furnished accommodation. Flights. VISA. Medical Cover. Tuition fee concession for dependants. Job type: Full Time, Permanent Apply by: 31 March 2025

Job overview

We are looking for an outstanding Art Teacher to join our team at GEMS Wellington Academy, Al Khail from September 2025. Our vision at GEMS Wellington Academy Al Khail is to ‘Empower today, for a limitless tomorrow.’ We are seeking exceptional teachers to join our team who can help us achieve this goal through our belief in: Limitless Learning, Limitless Solutions, and Limitless Possibilities. As a cognitive science driven school, evidence-informed practice is at the heart of what we do, and we seek educators who can passionately articulate what outstanding learning and teaching looks like and translate this into practice in the classroom. All successful candidates will also share the same core values of Ambition, Responsibility and Courage. Successful candidates will be joining a fully inclusive, high performing school that is evidenced through:

• GCSE and A-Level results far exceeding UK national averages
• Very Good’ rating from the Dubai Schools Inspection Bureau (DSIB)
• ‘Outstanding’ rating from British Schools Overseas (BSO)
• ‘World Class School’ status from High Performance Learning
• Being an invited member of the Cognitive Science school network

Through our comprehensive professional learning programme, we ensure our teachers have access to quality development opportunities that not only help them develop as professionals but also contribute to our outstanding success. StepLab instructional coaching, Cognitive Science Network, Schools Students and Teachers Network (SSAT), the Best Practice Network (BPN) and Evidence Based Education (EBE) are just some of the partners we work with to ensure our teachers are comprehensively developed. Skills Successful candidates will need to:

• Hold a B.Ed, PGCE, PGDE or equivalent in Secondary teaching or similar
• Have experience of teaching British curriculum – Art
• Exceptional subject knowledge
• Experience of working within a high performing teaching team
• A proven track record of providing outstanding teaching and learning
• At least 2 years of experience teaching the National Curriculum of England

All positions attract an excellent remuneration package including: Competitive tax-free salary, individual fully furnished accommodation, free schooling, 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 which provides significant savings on day-to-day life in the UAE.

About GEMS Wellington Academy - Al Khail

GEMS Wellington Academy Al Khail is a premium National Curriculum for England School, located in the rapidly expanding Dubai Hills development. The Primary section opened in September 2013 and Secondary opened in September 2014 with current enrolment at 2500. This is an international world class school dedicated to fostering a passion for excellence in learning and in life. Recently rated ‘Outstanding’ by BSO, children learn in a vibrant, inclusive and creative learning environment that encourages teamwork, critical thinking, independent inquiry and risk-taking. Our staff are recruited almost exclusively from the UK, although applications from other countries are encouraged, and are highly skilled and experienced in delivering the National Curriculum. Teaching is significantly enhanced through the use of technology, which is used predominantly by students to create and present new content. Innovation and creativity are actively encouraged and the learning programme is significantly enhanced by a rich and varied extra-curricular programme of over 100 activities, which emphasises our belief that students should be learning from the moment they arrive in school until they leave at the end of the day. We are an internationally minded school with students representing over 80 nationalities and are an accredited member of the Council of British International Schools and British School in the Middle East. We are proud of our high achieving culture: our expectation of all students is that they strive to excel and make significant progress well beyond expectations commensurate to their starting point. Principal Campbell Douglas Values and Vision Our Vision Empowering students to aspire, create and excel in the world that is, so they can help create a world that will be. Our Mission Our aims are to provide a positive and exciting learning environment that encourages all children to take responsibility for their own learning and personal development. This is underpinned by consistent excellence in delivering the British curriculum in a way which is both creative and innovative. #J-18808-Ljbffr