Deputy Head of Secondary

Job Details

Posting Date: 18 Jan 2026

Location:

Dubai, AE

Job

NAS Dubai is more than just a school – it’s a vibrant, purpose-built flagship campus where academic excellence meets genuine community spirit. With over 3,000 students from diverse backgrounds, we offer a dynamic and inclusive environment that nurtures every learner. Our curriculum, rooted in the British Curriculum and adapted to our unique setting, leads to outstanding outcomes at IGCSE, A Level, and through the IB Diploma Programme.

We are proud of our exceptional results, with students consistently outperforming global averages and securing places at top universities worldwide. Recognised by Spears as one of the Top 100 schools globally and rated ‘Outstanding’ across all key areas by KHDA, BSO, and NEASC, NAS Dubai is a place where educators thrive, students flourish, and opportunities abound. If you're passionate about shaping futures in a school that values innovation, inclusivity, and excellence, we would love to hear from you.

Nord Anglia Education is the world’s leading premium school organization, with more than 80 schools located across 33 countries in the Americas, Europe, China, Southeast Asia, India and the Middle East. Together, our schools educate over 74,000 students from kindergarten through to the end of secondary school.

Our philosophy rests on four pillars of creativity, well‑being, excellent academic outcomes, and global connectedness. These are delivered through innovative use of educational technology to create a personalized 21st‑century learning experience for all students.

Each Nord Anglia Education school is unique in character and designed to meet the needs of its community. We are united by our philosophy, to be ambitious for our students, our people, and our family of schools. We believe that being part of our family of 80+ schools gives them a special advantage. Working together, we can achieve more than we can individually.

We also create unique opportunities to benefit our students and people, such as the Global Campus, Nord Anglia University, and our collaborations with The Juilliard School, MIT, UNICEF, and King’s College London.

A key member of the School Leadership Team, you will provide direction, inspiration and guidance to our secondary teaching staff. Focused on developing a high‑performing team, you – along with the support of the Head – will be responsible for the day‑to‑day operations of the school, including staff development, performance management and deployment. You will also be a key member of the Senior Leadership Team.

Join our fast‑paced international environment, and you will deliver the UK National Curriculum, IGSCE, A Levels, International Baccalaureate Programme and BTEC. You will challenge students to set ambitious targets for themselves and seek out and use innovative teaching practices to enhance their experiences and outcomes.

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Able to drive excellence by valuing and developing others, you will be a qualified teacher with extensive experience of both hands‑on teaching and management in education. You will stay fully up to date with curriculum developments.

Strong on leadership and people management, you will have a flair for setting and meeting challenging performance targets.

Able to work with a high degree of cultural sensitivity in our changing and fast‑paced international environment, you will use a range of communication strategies and channels.

Your strong commercial, financial, market and organisational awareness will enable you to devise effective solutions to complex business challenges.

With the ability to create a classroom culture where there are no limits to what can be achieved, you will have a university degree in your specialist subject, a teaching qualification, considerable teaching experience and knowledge of the curriculum.

Receptive to feedback and ready to embrace change, you will be keen to share best practice with colleagues and peers. You will also be…