Admissions Assistant

Dubai British School Jumeirah Park are currently recruiting for an accomplished Admissions Assistant to join the successful Admissions team.

Start date: 18th November 2024

Job Purpose

We are currently recruiting for an Admissions Assistant. The individual will assist the Admissions Team. Post-holder will work closely with the Admissions Manager to provide a professional and high-quality admissions service to all enquirers, applicants and their families, both from the UAE and abroad.

The Admissions Assistant works collaboratively to deliver a high-quality standard of support, ensuring that services are efficient and effective. The post-holder will provide administrative support to ensure that procedures are adhered to, and specific projects are effective.

This is a busy and varied role involving daily communication with academic staff, pupils and visiting families. The post-holder needs to work well under pressure, to have excellent organisational skills, to demonstrate good use of initiative and to have the ability to multi-task and prioritise. A collaborative and coherent approach is essential to ensure that, regardless of circumstances, the team is fully conversant with processes and procedures and able to contribute effectively to any activity within the team.

The post-holder will be dealing with enquiries, making appointments and conducting interviews and testing as appropriate on a daily basis. The post-holder will need to support the team at all times.

The Admissions Assistant must understand and practice all aspects on the Admissions Manager role so she can cover this position when the Admissions Manager is not available.

Person Specification:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in relevant field

Experience: 2-3 years’ experience in Customer Service Sales ideally in a service provider industry. Experience of the Education sector preferred but not essential.

Competencies:

• Effective communicator at different levels, both orally and in writing
• Ability to form effective customer relationships and close sales.
• Interpersonal skills, able to operate in a multi-cultural environment.
• Solid time management skills, the ability to multi-task and cope with peaks of demand.
• Computer literate, proficient in excel and able to navigate all social media platforms.

Attributes:

• Results driven.
• Tenacity
• Closing ability
• Attentiveness, able to listen effectively and ask questions.
• Resilient, able to work under pressure.

Our school

Dubai British School Jumeirah Park is part of the Taaleem family of schools and offers high quality education to over 1600 students aged between 3 and 18 years of age. Our multi-cultural environment offers an exceptional combination of the best of a well-rounded British education delivered within a truly international and inclusive community. In the pursuit of the highest academic standards, we provide a caring and supportive atmosphere which allows children to thrive academically, socially and emotionally, with each individual talent being nurtured and celebrated. The school is unique in many ways and has been designed to the highest specifications with the 21st century learning needs of students in mind. Facilities include a state-of-the-art performing arts theatre; radio studio; large, light and airy classrooms; an 8-lane 25 metre swimming pool with training pool; large sports field with tennis courts, shaded outdoor learning spaces, innovation lab and food technology room.

Our Curriculum

DBSJP follows the National Curriculum for England, from EYFS through to GCSE, BTEC and A Level examination courses. The curriculum is significantly enhanced by the local context and culture. The opportunities that students enjoy outside the classroom are just as important as the main curriculum and we offer an extensive, competitive, and varied extra-curricular activities programme.

About Taaleem

Taaleem is one of the largest, most respected education providers in the United Arab Emirates and the only publically listed Education Provider in the UAE. Taaleem (which means ‘education’ in Arabic’) was established in 2004 and now has over 27,000 students attending our diverse portfolio of private international and public-private partnership schools across the UAE.

Taaleem is also one of the Middle East’s leading IB workshop providers for PYP, MYP, DP and IBCP. We began training in 2009 and have enrolled over 7000 participants to date.

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.

The closing date for applications is Sunday, 13th Oct 2024, but applications will be reviewed as they are received and the School reserves the right to make an earlier appointment.