Outstanding Secondary Business Studies Teacher

·        Start date: August 2024

·        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 Business teacher to join us for the start of the academic year 2024/25.

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’

Our recent BSO report (2023) wrote:

“Qatar international School offers an excellent British education that fully meets the needs of its students: as a result, they enjoy school, learn well and thrive”.

“The students at QIS are characterised by their remarkable enthusiasm for learning and their exceptional behaviour, which unequivocally reflect their profound motivation to excel academically. Students’ behaviour is exceptional, as is their attendance in school indicating high levels of enjoyment”.

“Relationships at all levels provide a highly positive learning environment where children thrive. Adults nurture children’s personal development and well-being extremely effectively”.

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 2,000 students ranging from 3 to 18 years of age.

We provide an outstanding education to all our students, who regularly achieve some of the best results in the world.

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.

Qatar International School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. 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.