Job Description – Early Years Foundation Stage - Arabic Teacher
Position: Early Years Arabic Teacher
Location: Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Start Date: October 2026
International Schools seeks a qualified Early Years Arabic teacher with expertise in running play-based classrooms in Arabic and developing young students’ language and literacy. The successful candidate will also provide targeted Arabic phonics and early literacy intervention for individual students.
Requirements
- Qualifications: Relevant bachelor’s degree and recognised Early Years teaching qualification.
- Teaching Experience: Proven experience teaching Arabic in Early Years, particularly language and literacy development.
- Language Proficiency: Excellent spoken and written Arabic, with intermediate English proficiency.
- Classroom Management: Ability to deliver engaging, play-based learning and maintain a positive classroom environment.
- Child Development: Strong understanding of early childhood development and age-appropriate teaching practices.
- Arabic Literacy: Expertise in Arabic phonics, vocabulary, early reading and writing.
- Individual Support: Ability to assess learning needs and provide targeted literacy interventions.
- Assessment & Inclusion: Experience supporting diverse learning abilities and language backgrounds.
- Professional Skills: Strong communication, collaboration, parent engagement and safeguarding awareness.
- Safeguarding: Understand safeguarding responsibilities, professional boundaries and confidentiality, and report concerns promptly through school procedures.
Desirable requirements
- Experience in an international or bilingual Early Years setting.
- Familiarity with Cambridge Early Years framework.
- Further training in early childhood education, Arabic phonics, literacy intervention or additional-language teaching.
- Experience developing Arabic learning resources and supporting transition into primary.
- Candidates should demonstrate their expertise through a play-based Arabic teaching activity, a short individual literacy intervention plan, and discussion of how they assess and respond to students’ progress
Key preference:
- Saudi Femal
- Based in Jeddah
- Having a teaching license is required
- Experience teaching early years and Arabic