Summary
The UAE Ministry of Education is hiring a Professional Academic Advisor for Dubai and the Northern Emirates. The role includes delivering academic and career guidance, helping students plan their studies and explore suitable pathways, and implementing the guidance curriculum for secondary students. The advisor also communicates with parents and external institutions, coordinates career events, and assesses student performance. Requirements include a bachelor’s degree in education, social work, sociology or psychology with no experience, or relevant diplomas or a high school certificate with the stated experience requirements.
The posting
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Job Description
Company Overview
Since the establishment of the union of the United Arab Emirates in 1971, education has received the utmost attention of the founding leader, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, may Allah have mercy on him, and his founding brothers. They believed that education was the cornerstone of building an enabled community that could keep pace with the advancements. Over the past decades, the wise leadership of the country was keen on building an educational system that matched its counterparts in the advanced nations. It harnessed for this purpose all the required capabilities, to achieve the country's agenda and national vision in this regard. Sincere efforts have also been made to develop education and adopt the best systems that achieve high-quality education outputs, to achieve the future visions and aspirations of the wise leadership.
Since investing in human capital is the main objective, the UAE has been keen on establishing the Ministry of Education and creating the appropriate environment to build pioneering Emirati schools, in terms of standards, form, and content they provide. It also made sure that such schools provided high-quality educational environment and owned the most technically advanced tools to be able to graduate generations that could pursue their university education confidently in higher education institutions to fulfil the requirements of labour market.
The MOE has also provided a smart learning system and high-quality digital platforms, side by side with the continuous development of school curriculums, according to national learning standards, assessment policy that is based on assessing for learning, and highest quality standards that match the best international practices. Various learning tracks, moreover, have been provided to support the capabilities and skills of students and achieve the country's strategy of encouraging the culture of creativity and innovation through providing the students with the skills of the 21st century and motivating them to have new ideas that relate to the reality they live in and foresee the future. This will eventually help in finding radical, sustainable solutions to the major issues, improving competitiveness, and supporting smart government in its attempts to keep pace with global advancements, advance education, and push it to broad horizons of excellence, leadership, and competitiveness.
Department Definition
To provide an appropriate school environment for learning in line with developmental stages and the grade level, while considering individual differences, through the preparation of guidance programs that inspire students and support their personal, academic, career, and social growth and progress, and by helping them develop their study plans and follow them, assisting students in discovering their academic abilities and potential and their career aspirations, and helping them understand their problems and resolve them.
Main Job Duties & Responsibilities
Preparing a self development plan and completing the self assessment.
Communicating with students’ parents and providing advisory, guidance, and career related services regarding their children.
Communicating with higher education institutions, the private sector, and local entities, identifying future job opportunities, and involving them in activities.
Providing the necessary support to the department manager and carrying out any other tasks assigned.
Implementing activities and events and organizing joint career guidance exhibitions inside and outside the school in coordination with professional academic advisors in other schools.
Implementing the academic and career guidance curriculum at the secondary education stage, including teaching, awareness, training, and assessment to evaluate students’ performance.
Preparing and implementing the academic and career guidance plan in coordination with other specialists in the school.
Collecting information about students’ academic and career orientations and providing advice and guidance on pathways suitable to their abilities and aspirations, and on suitable specializations and professions.
Skills Description
Minimum required qualifications and experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Education and Teaching: 0 years of experience
Bachelor’s degree in Social Work: 0 years of experience
Bachelor’s degree in Sociology: 0 years of experience
Bachelor’s degree in Psychology: 0 years of experience
Diploma in Social Work: 5 years of experience
Diploma in Psychology: 5 years of experience
Diploma in Education and Teaching: 5 years of experience
Diploma in Sociology: 5 years of experience
High School Certificate: 9 years of experience