Head - Music; Yasmina British Academy AY

Head - Music (Yasmina British Academy) AY2026/27

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Yasmina British Academy is an outstanding English Curriculum school in the beautiful city of Abu Dhabi. With a globally recognised curriculum, dedicated practitioners and outstanding teaching, the Academy is an exceptional place to work. It has a diverse, progressive learning community that annually produces some of the very best I/GCSE and A Level results in the UAE. The Academy is extremely proud of its recent ADEK inspection, which rated the school as ‘Outstanding’ in all six performance standards, putting it among the top schools in the UAE and Middle East.

From the start of the Academic Year 2024/25, the Academy is moving to a new multi‑building campus with state‑of‑the‑art facilities that will enable teachers and students to flourish, fostering a future‑focused educational experience while also delivering on environmental commitments. The new campus will act as a social, sporting and performance hub for both local and international communities in the city, expanding the value of the outstanding educational provision and positively impacting the learning community through the Aldar Academies brand.

The successful candidate will be closely aligned with the Academy’s core values and ethos and possess a genuine understanding and appreciation of the values of the region.

• Assist the academy in achieving its overall vision and strategic intentions and contribute to the achievement of relevant targets as set out in the academy’s improvement plan and self‑evaluation form.
• Comply with regulations pertaining to health and safety at work legislation and adhere to academy policies relating to safe working practice and equal opportunities regulations.
• Comply with the academy’s Performance Management Policy, ensuring challenging annual targets are set and, if directed by the principal, fulfil the role of performance management reviewer.
• Engage in annual training linked to child protection, safeguarding and health and safety, together with all training deemed appropriate for the purpose of academy improvement or performance management.
• Comply with the academy’s computer Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) at all times.
• Lead strategic direction and development of the department, including setting the vision, analysing data, improvement planning, target setting and ongoing self‑evaluation.
• Lead on curriculum development, ensuring outstanding provision for all, including an enhanced extra‑ and co‑curricular programme.
• Communicate effectively and proactively with all stakeholders.
• Play a lead role in developing key policies and practices that support the Academy’s overall aims, vision and values.
• Monitor the effectiveness of learning and teaching and of systems/practices; evaluate their impact on student progress and standards, identify further areas for development and encourage the sharing of best practice.
• Ensure all practices promote student progression, improved achievements, a positive ethos and staff commitment to shared goals.
• Develop a departmental development plan through collaborative work that dovetails with and supports the whole academy’s development and its commitment to raising standards.
• Share responsibility for representing the department at cross‑curricular committees such as the EAL link.
• Monitor and review students’ progress through appropriate data, home learning, student voice, lesson observations, student work reviews and parental engagement.
• Identify and implement strategies to enhance learning and teaching within the department, including the use of emerging learning technologies.
• Model outstanding practice in learning and teaching.
• Involve external advice and expertise where this would further benefit and enhance the learning agenda and therefore student progress, achievement and standards.
• Ensure that appropriate and relevant schemes of work are developed, in place, and regularly reviewed and evaluated for all year groups and courses, including suitable provision for SEN/POD, G&T and EAL students.
• Organise key events and…