Job Description

Job overview

Teacher – Primary – Muna British Academy

Since our establishment in 2009, we have built and maintained a strong reputation for excellence, consistently achieving an “Outstanding” ADEK rating since 2015. In August 2025, Muna British Academy relocated to a state-of-the-art campus in the prestigious Saadiyat Lagoons community. This move has enabled us to expand our provision—now welcoming students from FS1 to Year 8, with plans to extend to Year 13 in the near future—within an inspiring environment that supports our mission of delivering exceptional education.

Our new campus features world-class facilities designed to foster academic excellence, creativity, and personal growth. This relocation marks the next exciting chapter in our journey and offers an unparalleled opportunity for our community to grow and thrive in a premier educational setting.

As we continue to expand our secondary year groups in the upcoming academic year, this is a fantastic opportunity to join the highly successful Aldar family of schools and contribute to shaping the future of Abu Dhabi’s leading educational group.

Successful candidates will be closely aligned with our core values and ethos and will demonstrate a genuine understanding and appreciation of the values and culture of the region.

Responsibilities:

• To deliver lessons that inspire students to succeed in order to achieve the best possible outcomes.
• Teamwork and collaboration.
• To be a good communicator at all levels. 
• Be committed to developing positive relationships with all members of the school community.
• Working alongside fellow teachers to plan engaging lessons that meet requirements of the curriculum.
• Liaising with colleagues and working flexibly.
• Working with parents to ensure the happiness and best academic outcomes for all children.
• Working cooperatively with curriculum support staff (where applicable) to support children’s development.

Teaching and learning: 

• Clear understanding of the Curriculum.
• Organising the classroom provision and learning resources and creating displays to encourage a positive and engaging learning environment.
• Planning, preparing and presenting sessions that cater for the needs of the whole ability range within the class.
• Observing and assessing children in line with school assessments.
• Being reflective of the classroom provision, sessions taught, progress made, and adjusting environment, planning and curriculum to reflect this.
• Meeting with other professionals such as speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and educational psychologists, if required.

Assessment and data:

• Taking responsibility for the progress of a class.
• Meeting requirements for the assessment and recording of student’s development using Target Tracker.
• Using data provided by assessments to influence further planning, provision and intervention.
• Providing feedback to parents and carers on a student’s progress at Parent Teacher Conferences and other meetings.

Behavior management and duties: 

• Follow the school’s behaviour policy.
• Manage classes effectively, using approaches which are appropriate to students’ needs in order to inspire, motivate and challenge pupils.
• Maintain good relationships with pupils, exercise appropriate authority, and act decisively when necessary within the school’s behavioral policy.
• Be a positive role model and consistently demonstrate the positive attitudes, values and behavior, which are expected of pupils.
• Have high expectations of behavior, promoting self-control and independence of all learners.

Wider professional responsibilities:

• To work as part of a curriculum action group, supporting planning, assessment, resources and special events linked to that team.
• Support the organizing of and taking part in school events, outings and activities which may take place at weekends or in the evening.
• Communicate effectively with parents/carers with regards to student’s achievements and well-being using school systems/processes such as CPOMS as appropriate.
• Make a positive contribution to the wider life and ethos of the school.  

Requirements:

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Primary Education or a Bachelor’s degree with a mandatory post teaching qualification (PGCE or similar in Primary Education).  
 

Minimum Experience: A minimum of 1 year experience teaching the England National curriculum (ENC) in a similar role.

Job Specific Knowledge & Skills:

•   Experience working with students whom English is not their first language (EAL) students.

•   Mandatory experience teaching the England National Curriculum in a primary setting.

•   To be able to deal professionally with a range of stakeholders.

•   Passion for teaching and commitment to educating and nurturing children.

•   A high level of professionalism and consideration of the well-being of children.

•   Recent and consistent involvement in extra-curricular activities.

•   A positive and solution-focused attitude to working life.

•   Warmth, empathy, credibility, self-belief, integrity, drive and child centered.

•   To be able to prioritize workload and multitask.

•   IT Literate and familiar with online technologies to aid in 21st century teaching.

•   Strong interpersonal skills to communicate with parents in a diverse multi-cultural environment.

What we offer: 

Aldar Education is a family of world-class, child centered, and innovative schools based in the UAE. We educate over 25,000 students across our group of owned and managed schools and as we grow so does our need for highly skilled, inspirational, and dedicated school leaders. We offer an attractive remuneration package including medical cover, flights, housing, and free child school places. Our future-focused learning model includes both students and staff and so we place a special emphasis on professional development, coaching and training.

Successful candidates will have access to a wide network of professionals and opportunities to both lead and contribute to training others as well as developing themselves.

Aldar Education is keen to hear from like-minded, forward thinking school leaders who would welcome the challenge and opportunities that we have to offer.

This job description is not all inclusive. Aldar Education reserves the right to amend this job description at any time. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. We are also mindful of our national development strategy and encourage UAE Nationals in their application at our company.