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Career Opportunities

Stamford American International School welcomes applications from qualified, experienced teachers looking for an international,, vibrant, challenging and rewarding teaching environment. Teaching candidates are evaluated on four key areas: high-quality teaching practice, contribution to learning area and curriculum development, relationships with students, staff and parents, and contribution to the whole school.

Stamford American International School invites applications from interested and fully-qualified individuals for the following open position(s). To be considered for the open position(s), the duly completed Job Application form (download here), a copy of your resume and all relevant educational certificates and transcripts/mark sheets must be submitted to careers@sais.edu.sg.

If you are interested in working at Stamford American International School, but can’t find a suitable job opportunity listed online, please submit your application to careers@sais.edu.sg and we will keep your application active in our database for a future relevant opening.

Testimonials

There’s a lot to love about working at Stamford. Of course, we have amazing access to technology and great tech support. As a teacher, I also get the chance to work with colleagues from all around the world in ways in which innovation is honored, and even expected, while growing my own knowledge base… But the best thing about Stamford? I would say it’s our student body! I’ve never taught in a school with such a diverse mix of students, and teaching here, I learn alongside students as we strive to master skills,  concepts, and content, and do so by producing beautiful work!

Mandala Barab

Individuals & Societies Teacher

The best thing about Stamford is its pledge to inspire our students to achieve their very best in all that they do. This pledge enables students to reach their personal goals to ultimately create their unique futures. Whether their best is in the classroom, the lab, on the pitch, the stage, or in the pool Stamford students have the opportunity to discover and develop their strengths and skills so that they are fully prepared for the future. I see students embracing these opportunities every day and hear about the beautiful journeys many students have taken after Stamford, making each day meaningful and valuable.

Jules Nicholson

Head of Secondary Drama and Performance

I love to catch the corridor conversations between the teachers and students, especially in Early Years and Elementary School. The occasional chiding and the repartee coming from the students put a smile on my face and remind me that we are molding them for the future.

Desmond Ng

Senior IT Relationship Manager

What I love most about working at Stamford American is the diverse team I work with. Everyone is supportive of each other and we have a strong leader. We all bring our different strengths to the team and very importantly, we have fun working together.

Grace La

School Nurse

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

DIRECTOR OF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

The Director of Professional Learning serves as the champion for the growth and development of all teaching staff, including both individual development and schoolwide efforts to build instructional capacity at all levels. As such, the successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate superior communications, technology, and facilitation skills; a strong knowledge of leadership development; and an ability to collaborate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders.

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TEACHING POSITIONS

RELIEF TEACHER - HIGH SCHOOL

To meet the school’s vision through the objectives of the MYP program. To engage students from over 70 national and linguistic backgrounds in the AERO (American Education Reaches Out) standards.

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TEACHER (DP LANGUAGE & LITERATURE AND MYP LANGUAGE ACQUISITION - MANDARIN) - HIGH SCHOOL

To enable students to “achieve more than they believe they can” through the objectives of the IB MYP/DP programs. To Contribute to a curriculum in the context of an IBO World School with over 75 nationalities. EAL experience in all disciplines is a plus. Additional responsibility includes 1x duty every second day, 1x co-curricular activity per week and 1x ‘advisory’ period per day.

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TEACHER (DRAMA) - MIDDLE SCHOOL

The role of the Middle School Drama Teacher is essentially to build and maintain a successful Drama program within the school by providing an educational atmosphere conducive to learning and developing through the process of inquiry and in conjunction with the International Baccalaureate MYP program. The drama teacher needs to have knowledge and experience in a variety of drama techniques and approaches including devising, script work and journaling. The drama teacher will also be expected to be actively involved in school productions, which will require some after school and occasional weekend rehearsals.

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TEACHER (ENGLISH) - MIDDLE SCHOOL

To meet the school’s vision through the objectives of the MYP program. To engage students from over 70 national and linguistic backgrounds in the AERO (American Education Reaches Out) standards.

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TEACHER (G6&7 LANGUAGE ACQUISITION) - PCS

The Preparatory Course for Secondary (PCS) is an initiative at Stamford for non-native English speakers entering into Grades 6-7 (Ages 11-14); The curriculum is developed by the PCS Curriculum Committee and based on the MYP Criteria. The PCS is offered in 20-week sessions and intends to provide an intensive, immersive, English language experience for students. Teachers will be expected to teach targeted English acquisition skills (Grammar, Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking) as well as co-teach the core content subjects of English Literature, Math, Science and Social Science.

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TEACHER (HIGH SCHOOL) - EAL

Stamford is looking for a highly qualified English as an Additional Language (EAL) teacher with previous experience in international education to join our expanding team of high-quality professionals. The role of the EAL Teacher is essentially to build and maintain a successful EAL Program which includes providing support for students with English language needs and preparing EAL students for accessing our curriculum in English.

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TEACHER (READING INTERVENTION) - MIDDLE SCHOOL

To support the reading development needs of middle school students working two or more grade levels below expectation by assessing reading abilities and developing and implementing effective strategies to improve their reading skills. To work collaboratively with teachers, parents, and administrators to ensure that students receive the support they need to succeed.

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OTHER TEACHING POSITIONS

COUNSELLOR (SOCIAL EMOTIONAL) - SSD

The Student Support Department (SSD) is looking for a highly qualified school counsellor to join our team of multidisciplinary professionals. This position implements a comprehensive school counselling program which utilizes a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) model by serving as a student advocate and working collaboratively to foster students’ academic achievement and social-emotional wellbeing.

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RELIEF SCHOOL COUNSELLOR - SSD

The role of the Relief Counselor is to support the social emotional development of students in our secondary schools. The relief counselor will take on a significant role in safeguarding – supporting students and families, conducting risk assessments, and collaborating with teams to ensure student safety and wellbeing. The relief counselor will also support students in the form of one on one counseling, small group counseling, classroom observations, family meetings, and modeling of strategies/resources.

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RELIEF TEACHER (VISUAL ARTS) - MIDDLE SCHOOL

To meet the school’s vision through the objectives of the MYP/DP/BTEC program. To engage students from over 70 national and linguistic backgrounds to find their academic success.

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RELIEF TEACHING ASSISTANT (PRE-N – KG2) - EARLY YEARS

The role of the Early Years Relief Teacher (Prenursery – KG2) is essentially to build and maintain a successful Early Years Age 18 months – 6 year old) program within the school by following the lesson plan provided by the Homeroom Teacher.

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RELIEF TEACHING ASSISTANT - ELEMENTARY

The role of the Teacher Assistant is essentially to assist the Teachers in the delivery of the education program within the classroom and support the activities within and outside the classroom to ensure students are safe, happy and learning in a positive and nurturing environment.

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SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPIST

The Student Support Department (SSD) is looking for a highly qualified, licensed Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) with previous experience in school-based therapy to join our expanding team of multi-disciplinary professionals. Utilizing a MTSS (Multi-Tiered Systems of Support) Model, the primary role of the SLT is to provide a range of interventions and consultation to the school community to increase students’ speech and language development across all learning environments.

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TEACHER ASSISTANT - EARLY YEARS

The role of the Teacher Assistant is essentially to assist the Teachers in the delivery of the education program within the classroom and support the activities within and outside the classroom to ensure students are safe, happy and learning in a positive and nurturing environment.

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TEACHER ASSISTANT - ELEMENTARY

The role of the Teacher Assistant is essentially to assist the Teachers in the delivery of the education program within the classroom and support the activities within and outside the classroom to ensure students are safe, happy and learning in a positive and nurturing environment.

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TEACHER ASSISTANT - SSD

The role of the Teacher Assistant is essentially to assist the Intervention Specialist and Special Education Teacher in the delivery of the education program within the classroom and support the activities within and outside the classroom to ensure students are safe, happy and learning in a positive and nurturing environment.

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NON-TEACHING POSITIONS

ADMISSIONS MANAGER

The core purpose of the role of an Admissions Manager is:

  • to be a brand ambassador who understands the school’s value proposition and appreciates individual parent and student needs to effectively sell the school to prospective families.
  • develop a deep understanding of individual parent and student needs and appropriately tailor the approach to each situation to provide a personalised experience.
  • qualify and convert inquiries into firm applications, helping drive new enrolments

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APPLICATION MANAGER

Highly motivated tech-support professional skilled in troubleshooting, analyzing, and resolving complex technical problems, utilizing advanced resolution procedures in schools assigned. Provision of professional and high level customer service ensuring unresolved issues and queries are promptly escalated as per protocol. Acts as support and bridge between Cognita’s schools and Head Office.

To manage the applications used by the school and ensure that service levels for application support are achieved. To ensure that customer expectations are met or exceeded.

Responsible for ensuring the IT staff taking care of applications are meeting and exceeding expectations in regards to performance, meeting defined metrics/benchmarks, and that standards and processes are followed to provide effective customer service and meet requirements.

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ASSISTANT AUDIO VISUAL SPECIALIST

  • To help develop a creative school, raising standards of education through innovative use of multi-media across curriculum.
  • To share resources and expertise within the school, offering increasing opportunities for communication and life- long learning.
  • The major responsibility of the Assistant AV Specialist (AV/Theater) is to ensure that the quality and functioning of audio and visual equipment within the school and maintain the operations of such equipment at several venues such as the theater, iLearns, Arenas and outdoor events. The Assistant AV Specialist (AV/Theater) must be familiar with microphones, speakers, sound systems, recording devices, digital and analog mixing boards, lighting board, projectors. The purpose of the Assistant AV Specialist (AV/Theater) is to install, configure, operate, maintain, takedown, and at times, conduct minor repair works.

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ENROLMENT EXECUTIVE

  • The core purpose of the Enrolment Executive is to secure and compile all information necessary to support a student’s application for a place, and to undertake the internal review of each application and to make a recommendation decision (accept or decline) to the Senior Enrolment Manager
  • They manage the EAL Applications pipeline to ensure prompt escalation to the EAL Department after WIDA/SLATE test, follow-up and process applications to facilitate admission decision smoothly and efficiently
  • They are responsible for engaging with internal stakeholders on student applications to ensure that all documents and inputs are adequately verified, and the school is fully able to support each student’s education needs before a formal offer of a place is made

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HIGH SCHOOL ATTENDANCE MANAGER AND OFFICE ASSISTANT

High School Attendance Manager and Office Assistant develops and implements attendance policies and procedures in accordance with school and CPE regulations and supports the operation of the High School Office Suite. Under the direction of the Academic Counselors and Dean of Students, the IBDP/AP and MYP Coordinators, Registrar and the High School Secretary, performs a variety of clerical and support work involving both specific routines and broadly defined policies and procedures. High School Attendance Manager and Office Assistant greets and interacts with the public, works cooperatively with staff, students and parents, and performs other related duties as assigned.

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IT SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

  • The IT System Administrator will be responsible for the administration and maintenance of the company’s Google Workspace for Education, Google Admin, and Office 365 platforms. The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of experience in a similar capacity and possess intermediate knowledge of these platforms. Candidate with the knowledge of Jamf and/or Microsoft Intune is a plus.
  • Responsible for ensuring systems setup and configurations are meeting and exceeding expectations with regards to performance, meeting defined metrics/benchmarks, and that standards and processes are followed to provide effective customer service and meet requirements. At the same time, to ensure that customer expectations are met or exceeded.
  • The Systems Administrator is also responsible for upkeeping school managed solutions to reliably deliver their functionalities to school users comprising of students, teachers, operation staff and parents of students.

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MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS EXECUTIVE

The primary objective of the Marketing & Communications Executive is to develop and implement strategic marketing and communications initiatives to effectively engage parents, staff and other key stakeholders. This role aims to consistently share the school’s vision and values through various forms of digital and printed media. By leveraging the school’s diverse channels and community touchpoints, the Marketing & Communications Executive will engage stakeholders and ensure consistent and impactful sharing of information. By building strong connections and promoting transparent communication, the position contributes to fostering an informed and cohesive community within the school.

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PROCTOR

The integrity of the exam process is fundamental to any educational program because it provides a supervised check of the student’s knowledge and capability. The school therefore requires that prospective proctors understand their responsibilities and agree to ensure that integrity. The Proctor is responsible for administering the various school testing as assigned. This person must be committed to be available for assignment during the two-three main school wide MAP testing period, September, Jan-Feb and April-May, and other school testing/exam assignments as required.

When an individual is accepted as a proctor, they represent the school and are accountable to the testing/examination process. The Proctor should be comfortable with different age ranges of children and be able to maintain discipline in a class.

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SAFEGUARDING MANAGER

The Safeguarding Manager will manage a caseload of open safeguarding cases from pre-nursery up to grade 12. This involves responding to Safeguarding concerns and working directly with families with the aim of ensuring children’s safety and well-being needs are being met holistically within the school setting. This role will also focus on engaging the parent community here at Stamford; sharing the schools safeguarding values and undertaking proactive and preventive work around issues such as physical punishment, child development, understanding emotions and student mental health. A respectful understanding of the complexity of Safeguarding within the international school setting in the context of Singapore is needed. This role will play a significant part in continuing to develop the Safeguarding Culture within Stamford.

The role requires a robust understanding of all aspects of Safeguarding, including Child Protection, Education and Community Engagement. The candidate needs to be a highly effective and empathetic communicator, who is able to build strong relationships with a diverse group of adults in order to ensure the wellbeing of students. The role requires that the successful candidate be able to identify, recognise, and mitigate risk factors experienced by our international students studying in Singapore. The Safeguarding Manager reports to the Head of Safeguarding and works with multiple stakeholders, including staff and operations personnel, parents, and external stakeholders including Child Protective services.

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SECONDARY SCHOOL REGISTRAR

The Secondary School seeks a detail-oriented and thorough individual to support in generating school records, managing student files, coordinating test scores, creating transcripts, answering parent/student requests for transfer of school records, creating a Master Schedule, Scheduling Student-Parent-Teacher Conferences and scheduling MYP, CEM/IBE and AP/DP mock exams and Exams.

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SWIM TEACHER ASSISTANT CUM LIFEGUARD

The role of the Teacher Assistant is essentially to assist the Academic Teachers in the delivery of the aquatic education program within the classroom/swimming pool and support the activities within and outside the classroom/ swimming pool to ensure students are safe, happy and learning in a positive and nurturing environment. In addition, the role involves wider support and delivery of the learn-to-swim and swim academy program.

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