Director of Inclusion

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
August 2025

31 January 2025

**Job overview**:

- **Start date**:August 2025
- **Contract**:Full-time, indefinite, fully sponsored
- **Generous tax-free package including**:

- Competitive basic salary plus additional allowances - all tax-free.
- Free furnished private accommodation with all utility bills paid.
- Free return flights home each year.
- Generous paid annual leave.
- Free school places, flights, and medical insurance for children.
- Allowances for extra baggage and legal documents.
- Comprehensive private medical insurance for Qatar and your home country.
- Enhanced end-of-service gratuity package for long servers.
- Unlimited sunshine in Qatar - consistently ranked as one of the world’s wealthiest and safest countries

Our happy, supportive, and tremendously successful school, certified as one of the best in the world by British Schools Overseas, are now looking for an Outstanding Director of Inclusion.

If you are a UK-qualified teacher, with leadership experience, and you have a creative, positive and professional attitude - we would love to hear from you.

**About you**

As part of the School Leadership Team, you will play a key role in leading and developing Inclusion and SEND across the school towards achieving its vision of excellence. You will be responsible for overseeing key areas of school improvement and contributing to the its continued positive school culture. The role also includes supporting the leadership of staff, student welfare, and liaising with parents and the wider community.

To be considered for a vacancy, you should:

- Hold a good bachelor’s degree and PGCE qualification from a reputable UK university.
- Hold, or be willing to engage in training for, CPT3a or NPQ for SENDCo qualifications.
- Have experience of teaching English National Curriculum, as well as experience in a leadership role.
- Have strong leadership and management skills.
- Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Have experience in leading school improvement initiatives.
- 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.
- Have experience of leading on Inclusion and SEND.

**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 School - currently comprised of about 2,150 students aged from 3 to 18 - is a vibrant, fun and multicultural place of learning. It offers an engaging and warm environment, where children and staff alike are on a journey of continuous learning.

Across each Key Stage in Primary, our students enjoy a creative, skills based, curriculum delivered through 'I wonder' and continuous provision (EYFS), continuous provision /thematic learning (KS1), and thematic learning (KS2). Specialist lessons for Arabic, Islamic Studies, PE, French, Music, and DT 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.

In Secondary, the curriculum that is offered is based on the English National Curriculum. The students study a broad and balanced curriculum in Key Stage 3 (Year 7 - 9) before they begin to specialise in Key Stage 4 (Year 10 & 11) and Key Stage 5 (Year 12 & 13) to match their personal interests and future career aspirations. The students will take International GCSEs in Key Stage 4 and A level and International A Levels in Key Stage 5. We also offer BTEC qualifications in Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5.

**Safeguarding**

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 o