Assistant Principal (Whole School) - Yasmina British Academy (AY 2026/27)

About This Role

Yasmina British Academy is an outstanding British Curriculum school in the beautiful city of Abu Dhabi. With our globally recognised and admired curriculum, dedicated and passionate practitioners and outstanding teaching and learning, Yasmina British Academy is an exceptional place to work. It has an exciting, diverse, and progressive learning community that annually produces some of the very best I/GCSE, A Level and BTEC results in the UAE. Our learning culture is under pinned by our core values of excellence, respect, passion, collaboration, and creativity allowing all students to thrive. Furthermore, the Academy is extremely proud of its recent ADEK inspection, which rated Yasmina British Academy as ‘Outstanding’ in all six performance standards, putting it amongst the top schools in the UAE and Middle East.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in education or BSc degree with PGCE or equivalent is essential.
• NPQSL is desirable.
• At least 6 years teaching experience, including 4 consecutive years of performance exceeding standards and expectations as evidenced by performance appraisal.
• At least 2 years’ experience in a Middle Leadership role.
• Experience of leading school initiatives that have led to improvement in standards and achievement.
• Experience working with parents and external agencies.

Job Specific Knowledge & Skills

• A clear commitment to nurturing and promoting the school vision.
• Proven track record of displaying positive behaviors and values.
• A commitment to maximizing achievement through excellence in teaching and learning.
• An excellent track record as a classroom teacher and school leader.
• An excellent track record of implementing effective strategies to raise standards in learning.
• High standards and a highly effective communicator.
• Ability to implement and lead change and school development.
• Ability to lead large, diverse groups of people and stakeholders successfully.
• Ability to work efficiently and effectively under pressure.
• Ability to work with data and be effective in using data to diagnose, intervene and evaluate impact upon learning.
• Ability to organize and handle multiple tasks.
• Ability to exercise good judgment and must possess leadership skills.
• Must appropriately handle confidential information.
• A high level of professionalism and consideration of the well-being of all stakeholders.
• A positive and solution-focused attitude to working life.
• High levels of resilience and a good sense of humor
• Ability to drive change.
• A clean enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services check or police check.

Strategic Direction:

• To lead on and develop the vision and culture across the middle school phase, which falls in line with whole academy expectations.
• To develop curriculum strategy to ensure holistic future focused learning and high standards for all.
• Lead on whole school communication strategy, working closely with Parent Relations Executive (PRE) and school principals, to engage and support parents
• Lead on whole school marketing strategy, working closely with PRE and Aldar to raise the profile and quality of social media.
• Lead on whole school parent engagement strategy, including Net Promoter Score and action planning.
• Lead on parent experience, working closely with admissions and PRE to develop induction, transition and retention.
• Lead on digital strategy across the Academy, including platforms, resources and communication.
• Lead on staff wellbeing strategy across the academy, including eNPS and reward and recognition.
• To ensure the academy policies promote effective relationships and compliment the intended culture.
• To lead on key performance standards as directed, ensuring all students thrive.
• To develop stakeholder voice and utilise this to create impact across whole school strategy.
• To lead on key areas of the SEF and SDP ensuring key improvement priorities are identified and actioned based on current research and evidence. Including but not limited to the Enterprise Strategy, Learning Skills and the schools Able, Gifted and Talented programme.
• To lead and oversee the MER and quality assurance processes and present an accurate and coherent account of academy performance in relation to key performance standards to a range of audiences including governors and parents.
• To effectively lead the academy through external review and inspection in key performance standards.
• To promote positive relationships within and outside the academy to ensure a cohesive school community, including but not limited to developing parent partnerships, working with external agencies or businesses.
• To set the strategic direction for Middle Leaders to ensure all students are academically challenged and supported to thrive within the academy.
• To work with the senior leadership team to provide quality provision that supports the whole child and ensures outstanding progress and attainment for all.
• To provide strategic direction and line manage agreed middle leaders to ensure that the academy exceeds the expectations of students, parents, and other stakeholders.
• To nurture a community where student development is nurtured for all.

Culture for Learning:

• To work with all stakeholders to set the vision and tone for the culture for learning in line with the academy’s overall vision.
• To lead on key policies to ensure it meets the needs of the academy.
• Lead on the innovation strategy and develop innovative teaching and learning strategies, the use of educational technology and digital literacy.
• Support the development of educational research.
• To ensure high expectations for all staff in relation to the culture for learning and behaviour and provide CPD as required.
• To ensure effective communication to parents regarding expectations of the academy and ensure that staff, students and parents understand the expectations, and adhere to them.
• To quality assure provision and undertake regular learning walks and drop-ins as well as formal observations to ensure high standards across the academy.
• To lead on the presentation and use of internal and external data for middle school, ensuring effective systems and processes are in place, holding staff accountable at all levels. Including reporting data internally and externally as required.

Leading and managing staff:

• To lead subject teams and departments
• To coach and mentor teachers and leaders to significantly improve their professional performance and practice.
• To lead on the school ECA strategy, working with ECA leads.
• To recruit and select high calibre teaching and support staff.
• To line manage staff and departments as directed.