Head of Digital Innovation

Salary: Very competitive Job type: Full Time, Fixed Term Start date: January 2025 Apply by: 27 December 2024

Job overview

The Sheikh Zayed Private Academies are leading US-curriculum schools in Abu Dhabi, delivering outstanding education for students from Pre-KG to Grade 12. The schools’ reputations for high quality education, outstanding facilities, and innovative use of technology are well established in the UAE.

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Head of Digital Innovation to join the Senior Leadership Team at Sheikh Zayed Private Academy for Boys (SZPAB) in January 2025. This pivotal role involves shaping the school's digital strategy, aligning it with global standards, and ensuring full compliance with ADEK while driving innovation that empowers staff and students alike.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the SZPA Digital Strategy, ensuring it is forward-thinking, ADEK compliant, and aligned with the school’s mission and goals.
• Evaluate the current digital infrastructure and collaborate with the IT Manager to ensure our program supports the school’s innovation goals.
• Maintain our Apple Distinguished School status, regularly assessing progress, evidencing impact and identifying opportunities to maintain and enhance this designation.
• Guide teachers in the effective integration of digital tools and innovative practices to deliver engaging, differentiated, and impactful learning experiences.
• Develop and implement professional development programs that empower staff to confidently use cutting-edge digital tools and methodologies.
• Research, pilot, and integrate new technologies and apps to maintain the school’s position as a leader in digital education.
• Collaborate with the Principal and Leadership Teams across the academy to ensure digital strategies support school development plans and curriculum objectives.
• Promote digital citizenship and ensure a robust approach to internet safety and ethical technology use.
• Lead innovation in assessment practices through digital tools, fostering constructive teacher-student dialogue.
• Oversee and optimize the use of iPads and online programs, ensuring compliance, renewals, and effective deployment across the curriculum.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• PGCE or equivalent teaching qualification.
• Proven track record of at least 2 years of teaching experience, with leadership experience preferred.
• Strong knowledge of Apple technology, apps, and innovative teaching strategies.
• Experience of working in an Apple Distinguished School is highly desirable.
• A clean enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services check or police clearance.

We Offer

• A renewable fixed-term contract for 2 years.
• Highly competitive tax-free salary.
• Attractive annual housing allowance.
• Comprehensive international health insurance.
• Annual flight allowance.

If you are an inspiring leader with a passion for driving digital innovation and a desire to contribute to a culture of excellence, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your application form, CV, and a cover letter detailing your career highlights and vision for this role via the TES portal.

About The Sheikh Zayed Private Academy for Boys

The Sheikh Zayed Private Academy for Boys Al Dabbas Street, Al Khalidiya, PO Box 812, Al Khalidiya Abu Dhabi P. Box No: United Arab Emirates

+971 2033333

The Sheikh Zayed Private Academy for Boys (SZPAB) is a an award-winning blended curriculum school, combining the American Massachusetts State Common Core curriculum, with the UAE Arabic Ministry of Education curriculum. Maintaining an appreciation for the UAE's international community and world at large, the school’s vision aims to help secure the future of the UAE, by providing strong community role-models who understand their heritage and traditions and are also equipped with the skills and life-long learning dispositions necessary to embrace the challenges of tomorrow and to take on leadership roles.

We live by our school’s motto: Honoring the past. Educating for the future.

We achieve this by providing an excellent curriculum, delivered by inspirational teachers, that ensures that all students are able to make the most of their talents and abilities.

It is critical that our students are equipped with the competences and values to be contributors and leaders of society. Innovation is embedded, not only in our school’s mission, but in all aspects of our curriculum. We benefit from a state-of

the-art school, and as one of only 500 Apple Distinguished Schools worldwide, our students are equipped with a 1-to-1 iPad model which provides individualized support based on student needs

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