Cover Supervisor - Immediate start - Regent International School

TES FE News; Dubai; On-site; AED 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading education provider in the UAE is seeking a Cover Supervisor for their innovative school in Dubai. The role involves supporting students during teacher absences to ensure effective learning. Candidates should ideally be educated to degree level, possess excellent interpersonal skills, and have relevant experience in an educational setting. This position offers a local contract aligned with the academic calendar, and interviews will be conducted in Dubai or via video conferencing.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in successfully supervising groups of children aged 11-16.
• Basic knowledge of SEN and other learning barriers.
• Ability to provide classroom cover within agreed parameters.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain a positive learning environment.
• Provide essential support in covering classes.
• Monitor students' response and modify activities as necessary.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Strong organisation and time management skills

Ability to establish positive relationships with students

Active listening skills

Education

Educated to degree level

Job description

Job Overview

About us: Fortes Education has been a leading education provider in the UAE for over four decades with premium international schools and nurseries that have experienced outstanding success and growth. Our schools offer the most innovative and character-building education in the entire Middle East region.

Our core ethos and philosophy of education is Positive Education (PosEd). Through PosEd, our schools foster active engagement in learning, celebrating character strengths and accomplishments. We encourage children to cultivate fulfilling relationships with others and seek meaning and purpose in their own lives. We enable children to become happy learners and develop into innovative thinkers, confident young adults, and life-long learners. Our students develop resilience, a growth mindset and deep character strengths that allow them to flourish in an ever-changing world.

About Regent International School – Inspiring Minds. Building Character.

With a rich history of over 35 years, Regent International School is recognised as one of the leading and most innovative schools in the region, as well as a global leader in Positive Education. We have a close-knit family and community spirit with happiness resonating in our school, our children, our parents, and our teachers. We believe in inspiring, empowering, and enlightening our students and enriching the community of which we are a central focus.

Regent International School is an all–through school which offers a premium education across a fantastic range of pathways for students including the National Curriculum of England, GCSE/IGCSE and ‘A’ Levels. We also offer a suite of Signature Programmes unrivalled in Dubai. With unique experiences in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, students learn in Forest School settings, as well as utilising cutting-edge hydroponic technology to examine how science can support sustainability in future terrains. Our world-class STEAM centre and curriculum offers students an incredible opportunity to apply their learning in solving real-world problems, from Foundation Stage through to Year 9. We run best-in-class mini-MBA programmes for our students in conjunction with the Peter Jones Academy, to ensure their future success in business and entrepreneurship. We are technologically innovative and run comprehensive AI programmes for students in all core subjects, as well as deepening other subjects through Augmented and Virtual Reality AR/VR experiences. We have outstanding performing arts opportunities with fantastic amazing teachers to help our more creative students truly find their voice. Regent International School is judged by the Dubai School Inspection Bureau (DSIB) as a ‘Very Good’ school with many outstanding features and ‘Outstanding’ in our British Schools Overseas (BSO) inspection in 2019.

We present an exciting opportunity to join us in further developing our highly popular, dynamic and innovative school.

About you:

We are seeking to appoint a passionate and motivated Cover Supervisor who will provide essential support across the school by covering a variety of classes during periods of absence of the designated teacher. Our successful candidate will be responsible for creating and maintaining a positive environment for effective learning, through the application of the systems and structures developed by the school. You will play a vital role by ensuring that students continue to learn and make good progress on the occasions when their teacher is away from their class.

This role will likely suit you if you have previous experience in a similar role, providing cover within an educational establishment. Cover work will be supplied wherever possible for you to use as a basis for the lessons, and we will also determine your subject specialisms with you as a preference. Excellent interpersonal skills are required for this post as our successful candidates need to demonstrate that they can build a good rapport with staff and students alike.

We are looking for certain qualities:

• Educated to degree level would be advantageous
• Knowledge of strategies to recognise and reward efforts and achievements towards self-reliance that are appropriate to the age and development stage of the students.
• Basic knowledge of SEN and other learning barriers
• Strong organisation and time management skills
• Relevant experience in successfully supervising groups of children aged 11-16
• Previous experience in a school or comparable large organisation
• Understanding of a secondary school environment
• Ability to provide classroom cover – within agreed parameters – in the absence of the class teacher.
• Ability to consistently and effectively implement agreed behaviour management strategies
• Ability to use language and other communication skills that students can understand and relate to
• Ability to establish positive relationships with students and empathise with their needs.
• Ability to demonstrate active listening skills.
• Ability to provide levels of individual attention, reassurance and help with learning tasks as appropriate to students' needs, encouraging the students to stay on task.
• Ability to monitor the students' response to the learning activities and, where appropriate, modify/adapt activities agreed with the teacher to achieve the intended learning outcomes.

This is a local contract with no additional benefits other than all school holidays as per the academic calendar. Candidates applying for this position MUST be sponsored by their spouse/parent.

Application Process

If you have the passion, energy, and commitment to drive accelerated outcomes for young people, we will welcome your application. In return, you will join a rapidly evolving organisation that can offer you a central role in our future growth plans.

Candidates are invited to complete our Online Application by visiting: https://forteseducation.com/Careers/Current-Openings

Interviews will take place either face-to-face in Dubai or by video conferencing if the applicant is not based in Dubai.

The closing date for applications is the 31st of October 2025. Please note that due to the expected volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview. The school reserves the right to make suitable appointments before the official closing date, and therefore we would encourage candidates to apply early in the process. The appointment start date will be Immediate

Fortes Education is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a satisfactory International Child Protection Certificate, plus resident country Police checks.