One of Universal American School’s greatest assets is its high quality faculty and staff. We strive to prepare each child for academic and personal success in higher education and life in a global society.
Universal American School delivers the US curriculum via New York State Standards. Nurturing inquiry-based learning through multiple pathways including Advanced Placement tracks, IB Diploma Program and Primary Years Program. These personalized pathways equip students with the learning skills and competences necessary to embrace the challenges of an ever-changing world. This means providing students with a wide range of academic and technological skills and developing a range of learning, critical thinking and inquiry skills that will empower students to interrogate learning, promote creativity, problem-solve and give learners agency over their learning to achieve continued success in their chosen pathway and as active citizens in our international community.
UAS hosts a Centre for Excellence for Arabic celebrating the Arabic language which aims to promote and enhance the study and understanding of the language through research, education, and collaboration.
The school is also run on a not-for-profit basis and is part of the Al Futtaim Education Foundation. Founded in 2005, the school has delivered an inclusive, diverse, and rigorous program for our learners. Our alumni have gone on to study at leading institutions of higher education in the US, Canada, the UK and other parts of the world.
Located in Dubai Festival City the UAS campus has extensive facilities on a spacious site including a 25m swimming pool, full gymnasium, 400m running track, grass pitch, art and design studios, teacher wellness room, a newly built state of the art cafeteria, staff professional development space, elementary sports hall and a specialist creative arts block including recording facilities, black box theatre, ceramics room.
Universal American School is a special place to learn and work and we welcome you to become part of our learning community.
Applicants for academic positions will need to have the following:
A bachelor’s degree in a related field plus a certified teaching qualification such as B.Ed/M.Ed/PGCE/PGDE or equivalent.
At least 2 years of teaching experience.
A passion for consistently delivering outstanding lessons to their students.
The ability to share outstanding practice with colleagues.
The ability to work well in a team and with other colleagues.
The desire to develop and grow professionally.
A creative and enthusiastic approach both in and out of the classroom.
Excellent IT and interpersonal communication skills to work closely with students and parents.
Experience of teaching in a diverse, international school environment (desirable although not essential).
The desire to work within a team of highly supportive and creative colleagues.
Universal American School follows Safeguarding best practices in relation to recruitment. Our Safer Recruitment policy is in place to help deter, reject or identify people who might abuse pupils or are otherwise unsuited to working with them by having appropriate procedures for appointing staff. Successful applicants will be subject to various background checks, including receipt of satisfactory references and police checks.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of all students and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are fully committed to ensuring that consistent, effective safeguarding procedures are in place to support families, students, and staff at school.
We have a number of policies and procedures in place that contribute to our safeguarding commitment, including regular training for all our staff and our child protection policy, which can be viewed in the policies section of our website.
To apply for teaching and education leadership vacancies at UAS, please visit:
We do not currently have any vacancies, however, if you would like to share your CV to be considered for future roles with us, please send to careers@uasdubai.ae with the subject ‘Administration Vacancies’ providing a brief personal introduction and outlining the role which you are looking for in the body of the email.
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Candidates can view and apply for all of our current vacancies here.
We do not currently have any vacancies, however, if you would like to share your CV to be considered for future roles with us, please send to careers@uasdubai.ae with the subject ‘Administrative Assistant’ providing a brief personal introduction and outlining the role which you are looking for in the body of the email.
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We are currently accepting applications for substitute teachers across all grades and offer excellent, daily remuneration. If you are based in Dubai already, and hold a valid VISA and certified teaching qualification we would be keen to hear from you.
Please forward a recent CV to careers@uasdubai.ae with the subject ‘Substitute Teacher’ and provide a brief personal introduction in the body of the email.
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We do not currently have any vacancies, however, if you would like to share your CV to be considered for future roles with us, please send to careers@uasdubai.ae with the subject ‘Support Staff’ providing a brief personal introduction and outlining the role which you are looking for in the body of the email.
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We do not currently have any vacancies, however, if you would like to share your CV to be considered for future roles with us, please send to careers@uasdubai.ae with the subject ‘Teacher Assistants’ providing a brief personal introduction and outlining the role which you are looking for in the body of the email.
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Important Notice for Candidates: Be aware of potential recruiting scams
Please note that some teachers seeking overseas employment have been approached by various individuals or groups running scams and requesting money. These individuals/groups claim to be a reputable school (or assume the identity of an existing, reputable school) and ask teachers and/or administrators seeking overseas employment to send them money to assist in the payment of a work visa, interview or application fees, plane tickets, or other recruitment related costs. Please know that no legitimate school will ask any teacher or administrator to pay them to obtain a job and/or work visa. If you have been asked by an international school to send money to cover such costs, you are probably the target of an elaborate scam. Be aware that these fraudulent activities seem to becoming more frequent. Do not send money or pass on banking information to any school seeking professionals to come work with them.
All international candidates are urged to be diligent in investigating potential schools during the recruiting process and prior to signing a contract. Use extreme caution if you have been asked for money or private information.