Job Description

Food Technician at The Arbor School


Food and Beverage
Listed On: 3 July 2024


Expires On: 3 August 2024


Dubai
The Arbor School are seeking a highly motivated Food Technician to join their team. The role has a start date in August 2024.
About the Role



The Arbor School seeks a special individual for an exciting opportunity that has arisen within our school. The successful candidate will play a key role in fulfilling the school's ecological and sustainability vision, as well as challenging students to fulfil their potential within the academic disciplines.


•Enough For All, For Ever•



The Arbor School opened in 2018 with a very different vision of what education could and should be - experiential, authentic and inspired by the natural beauty, human ingenuity, and profound ecological and social challenges of the Arabian Peninsula.


The cultivation of a learning community uniquely committed to understanding and restoring the health of ecological and human communities as interconnected parts of a whole requires equal parts optimism, ambition, and humility. A fundamental belief in the inherit goodness of people and their capacity to act with empathy and compassion underscores the sense of hope that is fundamental to learning for a sustainable future. The resilience and determination to tackle challenges that have grown to global proportion is essential to finding sustainable solutions and orchestrating the social changes needed to grow them to scale. The realisation that comes from recognising that we are all students - never a master - drives our commitment to ignite a lifelong love of learning.



Recognising the interconnected nature of the cognitive, affective and participative domains, and their roles in shaping learning, we are pursuing a holistic approach to teaching and learning, designed to prepare learners:


• to understand the interconnected concepts of sustainability, individual and collective well-being, and environmental and social justice;
• to find purpose, meaning and joy in their interactions with the natural world and with each other, and to seek to understand people who are different to themselves; and
• to experience a sense of accomplishment and self-efficacy through their actions at home, in school and in the wider world.


The DT Food Technician plays a vital role in supporting the Food Technology Department and will provide technical support to the relevant departments, responsible for preparing materials, maintaining equipment, and providing support to teachers and students during lessons. They will undertake a practical health and safety role for the relevant departments, have a level of proficiency in basic food preparation and cooking techniques. An Arbor Technician has the opportunity to be more than an ordinary technician, as they will develop their professional skills and knowledge in an extraordinary learning environment.

The Food Technician is committed to the ethos of the school, instilling an understanding of the interconnectedness of our world through the concepts of ecoliteracy, a passion for the prudent use of resources in our drive towards sustainable lifestyles, and a profound sense of justice for all that inhabit our earthly household. The education of an Arbor student does not stop at the classroom door, and therefore an Arbor employee values the learning experiences that occur in the learning garden, with our animals, inside the greenhouse, inside the biodomes or within the reflection garden, as much as they value a student's progress in numeracy or literacy.



Job Summary



The Arbor School seeks experienced individuals for an exciting opportunity within our unique school. The successful applicants will oversee the preparation and administrative duties for the food technology department utilising the school's extraordinary learning spaces.


Integrated with the rigorous expectations of the English National Curriculum, the curriculum of the Arbor School is a blend of a knowledge rich curriculum, delivered using constructivist approaches that nurture competencies learners need to care for themselves, for others and for the environment. This includes a critical focus on inquiry and place-based styles learning.


The Arbor Promise



Arbor employees are a part of a community which is inclusive, fun-loving, and active. Arbor employees enjoy authentic friendships with their colleagues, positive relationships with school leaders, who care for their wellbeing, and are a team in the true sense. Arbor employees are resilient in the face of challenge, are stable and calm in the face of change, and creative and flexible when solving problems. Arbor employees bring their passions and interests to enrich our school and are clear that there is an expectation to do so. We commit to meeting agreed deadlines, to communicating proactively with an assumption of positive intent and share a passion to provide an education of the highest quality to our students.



Required Candidate Profile


• Very Good English language skills
• A recognised, relevant, and appropriate qualification in Food Technology, Nutrition
• IELTS score at advanced level 6.5 to 8.0
• Strong office/admin experience
• Two years' experience working in a school or similar setting.
• Experience in working with English National Curriculum
• Experience working in an international, premium quality school
• Valid UAE Residence Visa

Remuneration



Competitive tax-free salary and end of contract gratuity as per the UAE Labour Law.



Application



To apply for this position please send the below documents through the submission form below, with the subject title "Food Technician Application".


• An up-to-date CV with a recent photograph to be included.
• A letter of application, no longer than two pages in length, which outlines your educational philosophy and suitability for the Arbor School.



The Arbor School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all the students in our care and expects all applicants to share this commitment. We hold ourselves to a high standard of effective safer recruiting practices with specific attention to child protection. All appointments are subject to CV and qualification checks, interview, identity checks, criminal record checks, and successful references.


•All appointments are subject to the approval of the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) and the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation.•