Secondary Additional Support Coordinator

The Sultan’s School seeks to appoint an experienced Secondary Additional Support Coordinator to join their established SEN Department in August 2025.

Benefits:

• Competitive tax-free salary per established scale
• Attractive and spacious housing provided free of charge
• Annual flights
• Education allowance for 2 children
• International medical insurance
• Annual gratuity
• Friendly spacious campus and free use of school facilities including gym, playgrounds, padel courts and swimming pool outside of school hours
• Lunch provided
• Strong emphasis on professional development with comprehensive external and internal CPD opportunities.
• Opportunity for advancement and internally promoted posts  

About the school:

The Sultan's School is a not-for-profit, IB World school, founded in 1977 with the mission to provide a broad and balanced education that blends the strengths of Omani culture with a holistic education that encourages an international perspective, critical and creative thinking, and strong academic standards. The curriculum is bilingual, with Arabic Language, Islamic Education and Social Studies taught in Arabic, and English Language, Mathematics and the Sciences taught in English. A full range of foundation subjects are taught in both languages. 

The Sultan’s School blends three curricula- the International Cambridge curriculum from Primary through IGCSE, with the Ministry of Education’s ‘Basic Education Program’, and the International Baccalaureate (IBDP). The school is academically high performing and ambitious, with new initiatives such as HPL (High Performance Learning) aimed to raise the bar even higher. Due to the strong leadership, stable environment and happy “family” atmosphere, staff turnover is exceptionally low- less than 10% annually.   

The campus is one of the largest in the world at over 50 hectares in a lush, park-like setting, and includes a beautiful, homely residential area for staff and their families. The school and housing environment is surrounded by greenery and space.

Visa Requirements:

• Minimum of 2 years of post-qualification teaching experience
• Bachelor’s degree closely related to your subject
• Teacher qualification such as a PGCE, QTS, or equivalent
• Under 60 years of age 
• Safer Recruitment checks such as confidential reference checks and criminal record checks will be undertaken

Other requirements:

• Evidence of engagement in the wider school community
• Expertise in and a passion for your subject and a genuine interest in working with children
• Excellent communication skills, the ability to take the initiative and the flexibility to deal with change.
• Enthusiasm, energy, creativity and the willingness to take risks.
• Experience with English language learners is desirable
• High Performance Learning programme experience is desirable

Specific Responsibilities:

• To be responsible for the provision of a framework of support for students with Learning or Language needs including, but not limited to, effective and coherent planning through the department, resource needs connected to teaching and learning improvement, quality assurance procedures, SharePoint and online student attainment tracking.
• To be responsible for the coordination and review of agreed secondary school-wide projects/strategies. To ensure that students achieve to, or over, target.
• To report back to relevant teams on operational responsibility areas at least on a once monthly basis.
• To keep abreast of curriculum developments in the provision of support for both learning and language needs and advise the Head of Secondary on those that would lead to an improvement in student outcomes.
• To contribute to the school improvement plan and to promote school improvement through identifying realistic and challenging targets for improvement.
• To provide support to the teachers in the Additional Support Department.
• To prepare, monitor and update improvement planning in consultation with the Additional Support teachers.
• To liaise closely with the Head of Secondary, other Secondary Academic Coordinators Leaders as well as English Homeroom teachers to ensure that the curriculum offered is well- planned and relevant to the needs of all students.
• To create a centralized record for all additional support students on SharePoint.
• To ensure that IEPs and GEPs have been created for all students on the Additional Support register and have been regularly monitored and reviewed.
• To plan a timetable for additional support that does not take place during the subject for which they are receiving support.
• To arrange the assessment of children experiencing language and/or learning difficulties and implement the most relevant program for their support.
• To maintain an open line of communication with parents through relevant platforms. Meet with parents, update them on pupil progress and discuss issues of concern, working with the School Counsellor/Pastoral care team as necessary.
• Liaise with external agencies over assessment of pupils with learning difficulties.
• To support the Head of Secondary and Additional Support teachers in the oversight of online progress tracking, ensuring relevant and effective objectives for each year level.
• To make an impact on the educational progress of Additional Support pupils across Secondary through effective curriculum organisation and liaison.
• To help ensure that pupils experience an educational programme that is personalised to their particular needs identified through a robust assessment system and accessed through SharePoint.
• To monitor the quality of teaching and learning through the monitoring of student’s work, planning and learning walkthroughs and to share judgements with management, teachers and support staff as appropriate.
• To provide guidance and support to other members of staff, both on an advisory basis and through the provision of CPD.
• Lead training sessions for staff and parents.
• To monitor resources for Additional Support and, in liaison with teachers, to order resources with maximum efficiency.
• To oversee the annual budget for Secondary Additional Support.
• To raise the profile of Additional Support through secondary school, community and regional events.

Application process:

please apply with a CV as well as the TES application form

The deadline for applications is 5th January, but early applications are welcomed.

Edvectus (www.edvectus.com) has been contracted in exclusive partnership with The Sultan’s School to manage the application shortlisting process for all 2025 posts. Questions can be directed to Mrs Hannah Brant at sultans.school@edvectus.com