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
