Enrichment Educator - The Sciences/STEM

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Education, Early Childhood Education, Technology, or a related field preferred.
• Experience: Minimum 2 years of experience teaching STEM, science, robotics, coding, LEGO, engineering, or technology-based classes to children.
• UAE Experience: Prior experience teaching in a UAE school, nursery, learning center, STEM center, robotics program, or enrichment setting is preferred.
• STEM Knowledge: Strong understanding of age-appropriate STEM concepts, hands-on science learning, engineering design, robotics, coding, and project-based learning.
• Technology Skills: Experience with child-friendly coding or robotics platforms is preferred, such as LEGO Education, Scratch, ScratchJr, Matatalab, Bee-Bot, Tale-Bot, VEX, Arduino, Minecraft Education, Roblox coding, or similar tools.
• Teaching Range: Ability to teach children across different ages, abilities, and levels of STEM experience.
• Age Groups: Experience teaching children between ages 3–12 is preferred.
• Classroom Management: Strong ability to manage small groups during hands-on, active, and materials-based learning.
• Communication: Strong English communication skills for parent updates and team collaboration.
• Availability: Must be available for part-time teaching hours, including afterschool, evenings, weekends, and/or school holiday programs.
• Safeguarding: Must be willing to complete background checks, reference checks, and any required safeguarding documentation.
• Professionalism: Must demonstrate reliability, organization, curiosity, creativity, patience, and a warm, child-centered approach.

About You

• You have a profound and unwavering passion for childhood education and child development.
• You are a curious and engaging educator who believes children learn best when they can investigate, build, test, and create.
• You are passionate about helping children develop confidence in science, technology, engineering, coding, robotics, and problem-solving.
• You know how to make STEM exciting, accessible, and age-appropriate for young learners.
• You are comfortable leading hands-on experiments, building challenges, robotics activities, and coding projects.
• You can explain complex ideas in simple, child-friendly ways.
• You encourage children to ask questions, test ideas, make mistakes, try again, and think creatively.
• You value collaboration, persistence, curiosity, and independent thinking.
• You are organized and able to prepare materials, equipment, lesson plans, and safe learning spaces.
• You are comfortable working in a premium, family-facing enrichment environment.
• You are excited to help shape and grow The Ivy’s Sciences/STEM enrichment program.

What We Offer

• Above-Market Compensation: Competitive hourly or part-time compensation based on experience and qualifications.
• Small Class Sizes: Teach in intimate, carefully grouped classes where children receive meaningful attention.
• Beautiful Learning Environment: Work in a thoughtfully designed, high-quality education space created to inspire children and educators.
• Professional Growth: Opportunity to grow with The Ivy as our enrichment program expands.
• Flexible Schedule: Part-time teaching opportunities during afterschool hours, evenings, weekends, and school holidays.
• Program Growth Potential: Possibility for the role to develop into a fuller teaching schedule over time.
• Supportive Team Culture: Join a warm, collaborative team that values quality, professionalism, creativity, and care.

Why You’ll Love It Here

• Professional Growth & Advancement: Join a growing education company with opportunities for training, development, and expanded teaching hours.
• Inspiring Work Environment: Teach in a beautifully designed, high-quality space that nurtures curiosity, creativity, and innovation.
• Meaningful Teaching: Help children build confidence in science, coding, engineering, robotics, and problem-solving through hands-on learning.
• Small Group Impact: Work closely with children in small classes where your teaching can make a visible difference.
• Premium Education Setting: Be part of a family-centered environment that values excellence, warmth, and beautiful learning experiences.
• Creative STEM Teaching: Bring experiments, builds, robotics, coding, and design challenges to life in a joyful, engaging way.
• Above-Market Compensation: Receive competitive pay for high-quality enrichment teaching.

Key Responsibilities:

• STEM Instruction: Design and deliver engaging enrichment lessons across science, technology, engineering, robotics, coding, LEGO, and problem-solving.
• Hands-On Learning: Create interactive activities, experiments, builds, challenges, and projects that help children learn by doing.
• Science Exploration: Introduce children to age-appropriate scientific concepts through observation, questioning, experimentation, and discovery.
• Robotics & Coding: Support students in early coding, robotics, sequencing, logic, and computational thinking using age-appropriate tools and platforms.
• Engineering Challenges: Plan building, design, and engineering tasks that encourage creativity, teamwork, persistence, and critical thinking.
• LEGO-Based Learning: Use LEGO, robotics kits, and construction-based activities to support spatial reasoning, collaboration, and design thinking.
• Lesson Planning: Prepare structured, age-appropriate lesson plans, materials, equipment, and resources for each class.
• Adapted Instruction: Adapt lessons to meet the needs, interests, and abilities of students across different ages and skill levels.
• Small Group Teaching: Lead small class sizes with a warm, organized, and engaging teaching style.
• Classroom Management: Maintain a safe, respectful, and focused learning environment during hands-on activities.
• Material & Equipment Management: Organize, maintain, and care for STEM materials, robotics kits, LEGO sets, tablets, devices, and classroom resources.
• Progress Monitoring: Observe student participation, problem-solving, collaboration, and skill development.
• Family Communication: Communicate professionally with parents when needed, sharing updates on children’s progress, projects, and achievements.
• Program Support: Support afterschool, weekend, evening, and holiday enrichment programs as The Ivy’s STEM offering grows.
• Team Collaboration: Work collaboratively with The Ivy team to ensure the STEM program reflects the center’s high standards, family-centered approach, and commitment to quality.

Additional Information

• References will be required as part of the hiring process.
• Background checks may be conducted in line with company policy.
• Candidates may be asked to complete a short teaching demonstration or sample STEM lesson as part of the interview process.
• Relevant certificates, degrees, lesson samples, and experience will be reviewed in line with The Ivy’s internal standards and UAE education requirements.
• Candidates working with children must demonstrate a strong commitment to safeguarding, child wellbeing, and professional conduct.

If you are an inspiring educator passionate about shaping the future of childhood education, we would love to hear from you!

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