Job Description

• 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 happy, supportive, and tremendously successful Primary team, certified as one of the best in the world by British Schools Overseas, are now looking for an outstanding, EYFS Teacher to join us.

If you are a UK-qualified teacher with experience of delivering the Early Years Foundation statutory framework, and you have a creative, positive and professional attitude – we would love to hear from you.

About you

As part of the EYFS 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 a good bachelor’s degree and PGCE qualification from a reputable UK university.
• Have experience of teaching the EYFS statutory framework.
• Demonstrate a secure understanding of assessment and EYFS outcomes.
• Be keen to develop your career, supported by our world-class professional development.
• Genuinely love what you do – showing plenty of enthusiasm, creativity and energy.
• Be a real team player, always prepared to go the extra mile 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”.

Our Primary School – currently comprised of about 1,100 students – is a vibrant, fun and multicultural place of learning. It offers an engaging and warm environment, where children of all ages and staff alike are encouraged to investigate and develop their curiosity.

Our Early Years students are immersed in a creative curriculum delivered through I wonder and continuous provision. Specialist lessons for Arabic, PE, Music, and Library form part of students’ personalised timetables, supporting further our broad and balanced curriculum offer. Our class teachers are highly trained in programmes such as Talk 4 Writing and Read-Write-Inc, which we use to enrich the children’s learning. Classes are supported by trained, qualified, and experienced Learning Support Practitioners.

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.

Application and interview

Please apply by emailing us your CV and a brief covering letter at explaining why you’d be a great fit for QIS.

Initial interviews may be conducted online or face-to-face if the candidate is in Qatar. Successful candidates will be fully supported all the way through to their joining day – and beyond.

Unfortunately, due to the high volume of excellent applications we receive, we are unable to notify those who have not been shortlisted.