Cover Teacher

Job description / Role

Job overview

About us:
Fortes Education has been a leading education provider in the UAE for over four decades with premium international schools and nurseries that have experienced outstanding success and growth. Our schools offer the most innovative and character-building education in the entire Middle East region.

Our core ethos and philosophy of education is Positive Education (PosEd). Through PosEd, our schools foster active engagement in learning, celebrating character strengths and accomplishments. We encourage children to cultivate fulfilling relationships with others and seek meaning and purpose in their own lives. We enable children to become happy learners and develop into innovative thinkers, confident young adults, and life-long learners. Our students develop resilience, a growth mindset and deep character strengths that allow them to flourish in an ever-changing world.

About Regent International School u2013 Inspiring minds. Building character.
With a rich history of over 35 years, Regent International School is recognised as one of the leading and most innovative schools in the region, as well as a global leader in Positive Education. We have a close-knit family and community spirit with happiness resonating in our school, our children, our parents, and our teachers. We believe in inspiring, empowering, and enlightening our students and enriching the community of which we are a central focus.

Regent International School is an all-through school which offers a premium education across a fantastic range of pathways for students including the National Curriculum of England, GCSE/IGCSE and u2018Au2019 Levels. Some of our students achieved u2018best in worldu2019 awards from examination bodies this year, and the school significantly exceeded all international and Dubai averages in this yearu2019s TIMSS results. We offer a suite of Signature Programmes unrivalled in Dubai. With unique experiences in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, Primary students learn in Forest School settings, as well as utilising cutting-edge hydroponic technology to examine how science can support sustainability in future terrains. Our world-class STEAM centre and Design Thinking curriculum offers students an incredible opportunity to apply their learning in solving real-world problems, from Foundation Stage through to Year 9. We are technologically innovative and embed AI in teaching and learning. We have outstanding performing arts opportunities with amazing teachers to help our more creative students truly find their voice, and equally impressive athletic options for our students who regularly compete with other international schools in the region in DASSA and BSME sporting events and are supported by PE teachers as well as bespoke coaches for each sport. Regent International School is judged by the Dubai School Inspection Bureau (DSIB) as a u2018Very Goodu2019 school with many outstanding features and u2018Outstandingu2019 in our British Schools Overseas (BSO) inspection in 2019.

We present an exciting opportunity to join us in further developing our highly popular, dynamic and innovative school.

About you:

Due to our continued growth, we seek to appoint a Cover Teacher u2013 EYFS & Primary for an August 2023 start.

We are looking for certain qualities:

• Skilled in the best global educational practices.
• Committed to developing and inspiring every pupil, to believe that they can and will succeed.
• Able to teach through the u201cmultiple intelligencesu201d, to develop the whole child.
• Tech-savvy, fluent in using apps and technology to extend and enrich each pupilu2019s learning experience.
• Outstanding role models who embody our core values.
• Passionate about providing enriched learning opportunities for children in and out of the classroom.
• Excellent communicators who can ignite a passion for learning in our students.
• Able to make a significant contribution to our extra-curricular activities (ECA) programme and to wider campus life.
• Strong academic background, work ethic, well-organised having excellent interpersonal skills.
• Dynamic, enthusiastic, and well-qualified holding as a minimum, a B.Ed., or a B.A & PGCE with a minimum of 2 yearsu2019 experience teaching across the EYFS & Primary phase.

Our offer:

This is a local contract with no benefits. Candidates applying for this position must be sponsored by their spouse or parent.

Application process:

If you have the passion, energy, and commitment to drive accelerated outcomes for young people, we will welcome your application. In return, you will join a rapidly evolving organization that can offer you a central role in our future growth plans.

Interviews will take place either face-to-face in Dubai or by video conferencing if the applicant is not based in Dubai.

Application closing date: 10th Oct 2025
Appointment start date: Mid Oct 2025

Fortes Education is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a satisfactory International Child Protection Certificate, plus resident country police checks.