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