Data Officer - The Arbor School, Dubai, UAE – August 2025

at  The Arbor SchoolUnited Arab Emirates

JOB SUMMARY

The Data Officer plays a pivotal role in ensuring the effective management of all data-related processes and supporting key administrative functions within the Arbor School.
Key responsibilities will include providing specialist expertise and data analysis using the school’s management information systems and assessment systems. To oversee the management of school assessments. This role involves maintaining data systems, analysing educational data, and ensuring compliance with data protection regulations.
As a member of Arbor, the Data Officer will ensure the safeguarding of student welfare, promoting Arbor’s values, and ensuring alignment with school policies. Additionally, the position supports admissions processes and data accuracy, ensuring smooth transitions between academic years. Availability during summer, particularly for analysing results, is essential.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage and maintain the school’s data management systems, ensuring accuracy and security.
• Collect, input, and update student and staff data.
• Analyse educational data to provide insights for improving student outcomes and school performance.
• Generate reports and dashboards for school leadership, teachers, and external stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance.
• Collaborate with IT staff to resolve data-related issues and support implementation of new systems as needed.

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