Nursery Manager / Teacher

Job description / Role

Ruskin Education is now recruiting for a new premium brand nursery to open in Abu Dhabi in September 2016. The nursery offers a unique concept based around the British EYFS programme but with a strong emphasis on STEAM with the nursery concept, environment and play spaces being developed to a high specification to engage children in exploring science, designing and constructing their ideas and investigating and learning through play. The nursery will offer a strong enrichment programme making use of local facilities for swimming, outdoor and adventurous play, and through exploring sound and light with technology. This post offers an exciting challenge for an innovative and creative early years lead to help shape the whole nursery and lea

Job Scope:
- Leading teaching and provison for a core group of children including managing the various resources and providing positive and efficient learning opportunities for all children irrespective of their background and starting point.
- Provide a leadership and support role to a teaching team to ensure a consistent quality of provision across the team.
- Maintain excellent relationships with children, parents and carers in supporting the development of confident, discerning and motivated children able to show real curiosity in learning and exploring their enquiring minds.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plan, prepare and evaluate lessons, activities and learning and teaching strategies through the maintenance of a professional teaching plans
- Build the enrichment programmes and implement the concept and strategy for securing enquiring minds through well-planned and organized activities
- Provide a safe, secure and stimulating environment in which consideration is given to the individual development of all children
- Differentiate learning and teaching and associated resources in a manner that challenges and interest’s students and is appropriate to the needs and skill levels of students
- Lead a team of educators to ensure high quality provision and learning outcomes
- Create and maintain a classroom environment that reflects the variety and quality of children’s work and stimulates learning
- Utilize positive and supportive behavior management strategies that are conducive to effective learning and teaching
- Carry out a range of formative assessments of children’s attainments to acknowledge and inform progress.
- Contribute towards the nursery enrichment programmed its growth and success.

Requirements

- Masters/Bachelor degree or equivalent Early Years qualification
- Qualified teacher status or equivalent Early Years qualification

Must have skills:
- Excellent knowledge of how young children learn
- Exceptional relationships and communication skills
- Good people management skills
- The ability to enthuse and generate trust

Experience:
- At least 5 years experience in working in successful early years settings and EYFS curriculum
- Experience and interest in early reading, science and technology would be an advantage
- Competencies Well organized
- Good problem solving skills
- Flexibility and creative thinking
- Excellent range of teaching pedagogies

Additional Requirements
- Has experience in early education in an international context would be an advantage
- Experience and qualifications in STEM as applied to early learning would be an advantage
- Additional languages would be an advantage

Salary & Benefits: 8,000-14,000 AED per month + benefits depending on qualifications and experience

Contract: 2 year contract with the option for renewal

Application: Candidates are requested to submit the following documents:
- Cover letter, no longer than one page, explaining your strengths as a candidate and why you are interested in this particular position
- Current CV resume not to exceed two pages
- A list of 3 professional referees with current contact details (position, phone number and e-mail address) not older than 5 years

About the Company

Ruskin Education provides key services to improve standards of education on behalf of clients. We draw upon the best of international research and practice but tailor our solutions to the specific needs and aspirations of each client and project. Supporting sustainability in educational reform through strengthening the skills of local people is central to our work. We seek out the best of partnerships in order to combine services and exceed client expectations. We are locally based in the Middle East and have a wide network of highly qualified and locally based consultants which allows us to deliver high quality whilst also keeping costs to the client down.