Female Secondary Head of Year for August 2024, Qatar

Come and join our team!

Durham School for Girls Doha (DSGD) is seeking to appoint a dedicated and inspirational Female Head of Year to join our High Performance learning Secondary team school for August 2024. Durham is a sister school to Durham School UK and part of Durham International.

come and join a fully accredited BSO and QNSA school and the first All Female International HPL World Class School. We are a British School serving both the local and International community. DSGD is a member of both BSME and AOBSO.

Entering into our 6th Year, we are pushing for high standards in all areas of learning. We offer a full range of IGCSE and AS levels to our girls, with many of them entering into top universities including Virginia Commonwealth, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon and Qatar University.

As a Head of Year, you work with the SLT and Deputy Heads to ensure your Year group and form tutors are supporting the progress and wellbeing of the girls in your year. You will be expected to have good leadership skills, communication with your team, your girls and the parents is vital. Candidates will have a reduced timetable to ensure they can deliver assemblies, training and tracking for their year group. As a classroom teacher, you will be responsible to your curriculum department.

In the application, please state your subject teaching experience and also your Pastoral experience for this role.

Why join Durham ?

• Great team who believe in great education.
• Fully accredited with both the BSO and the Qatari Ministry
• Good Professional Development
• Unique project and being something part of something different.
• Joining a school with a fantastic reputation
• Leadership and responsibility opportunities
• Joining a fantastic and supportive school community

Who are we looking for ?

• Teachers who feel passionate about being teachers
• Dedicated professionals with good experience
• Teachers who understand the challenges of being a teacher in todays world
• British Qualified
• Teachers who believe in joining a community and making a difference.
• Teachers who believe in values
• Teachers who think outside the box and want to join an HPL community
• Teachers who believe that teaching is more than just being in a classroom.

Durham School for Girls Values

• MARK
• Moral Integrity
• Ambition
• Responsibility
• Kindness

Durham School for Girls ensures that Values are at the heart of the whole community.

Confidence for Life.

Your role will be joining the Pastoral and helping to raise standards and develop a love of learning for all our secondary girls. Ultimately ensuring the best results for both IGCSE and AS levels . We are a non selective school and have set high standards for our girls with both academic and pastoral expectations. With in your department, you will be expected to be an active member, supporting and developing the team with innovative planning and accurate assessment. Experience in KS 3,4 and 5 is optional. In the school. We want to develop this and create a school with a great reputation for developing well rounded girls. We want our girls to have a passion for learning and the support to be the best they can be.

Durham is unique and this is a chance to be part of something very exciting for the future of the girls in Qatar.

Come and join our team!

Application deadline: Interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis

Due to Qatari rules, all staff must be fully vaccinated.

For further information, please refer to the candidate pack attachment provided with this advert.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Please complete the application or for further information contact heather@compassteaching.com

Visit the school website www.durhamqatar.com