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Job Description
Taaleem is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. At Taaleem, we hold ourselves to a high standard of effective practices in relation to child protection and we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We expect all staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be subject to various background checks including, receipt of high quality references, proof of relevant qualifications, identification and police checks, including overseas checks.
Key Accountabilities:
- Welcome visitors to the school and register them, following student protection procedures
- Operate the school switchboard
- Respond to telephone/email enquiries from parents and public
- Receive parcels and deliveries; ranking outgoing post and arranging special deliveries when necessary
- Use Microsoft packages, particularly Word and Excel, to help support the school’s administrative team
- Assist with all administrative duties such as photocopying, filing, etc.
- Assist in locating students when reported “missing” from class
- Understand data protection and confidentiality
- Create and distribute the school’s daily briefing
- Work to deadlines in a calm and confident manner when under pressure
- Assist with school events such as Parent Open Days and School Performances.
- Carry out any such task as shall be deemed necessary to the smooth running of the school.
- Perform any other duty upon request
Skills
Education: Good general education appropriate to the post
Experience: A minimum of 2 years’ experience working in a similar field
Competencies:
- Excellent command of the English language, both written and verbal.
- Excellent telephone manner.
- Highly organized.
- Experienced in Microsoft.
- Good-natured.
- Well-groomed and courteous.
- Understanding of general reception tasks with excellent customer facing skills.
- A multi-tasker able to support the Management Team with administration.
- Ability to build personal relationships.
Attributes:
- Enthusiastic.
- Well Presented.
- Flexible.
- Highly Organized.
- Confident
Job Details
Preferred Candidate
Jumeira Baccalaureate School
In an ever-changing world, we are educating children for jobs that do not exist, to use technologies that have not yet been invented and to solve challenges that we may not comprehend. We have recruited the best practitioners from all over the world to join Jumeira Baccalaureate School. They are all committed to providing innovative approaches to all our teaching and tailoring this to individual needs. JBS students’ outstanding results in the IB Diploma Programme, which lies above global average, is a very good measure to benchmark the strength of the programme at our school. Every single one of our students has passed the IB Diploma Programme and the Career-related programme for the past six years, going on to study at some of the world’s top universities. The outstanding relationships between teachers, students and parents are at the foundation of our graduation results over the past years. JBS is one of only a handful of schools in Dubai, fully authorized to offer all four International Baccalaureate programmes. At JBS, the caliber of our teachers is really important! If you choose to work with us, you will be surrounded by wonderful, engaged and highly motivated students, alongside positive, friendly and hardworking colleagues! At JBS, our motto ‘know yourself, learn from each other’ demonstrates a clear commitment to having our students understand their own cultural background, as well as that of others in our community. With an internationally diverse student body of over 96 different nationalities, we encourage our students to be reflective and openminded about our commonalities and differences.
