Futures Mentor - GR8 School

Job Description

GR8 school is reinventing education around the individual learner. Our model combines AI-powered, self-paced academic learning with expert teaching, consistent personal guidance and direct access to professionals at the forefront of their fields. Students pursue academic excellence while developing the confidence, judgement and practical skills to apply what they learn.

Adaptive learning reveals what each student already knows, where understanding needs strengthening and when they are ready for greater challenge. This insight allows our team to personalise the learning journey and focus human expertise where it can make the greatest difference.

Learning Architects guide each student’s whole path across academic subjects and futures pathways. As the constant presence in the learning room, they build trusted relationships, sustain motivation and coordinate support. They also create and deliver workshops that develop essential personal, interpersonal and practical skills.

Academic Mentors bring deep subject expertise and a passion for teaching. They curate the digital learning experience and take responsibility for subject progression, working directly with students through high-impact one-to-one and small-group interactions. Their masterclasses deepen understanding and prepare students for assessments and high-stakes examinations.

Futures Mentors connect curiosity with authentic experience across all curricula. Drawing on industry and professional expertise, they help students explore questions alongside scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and other practitioners. Students can investigate a global challenge, develop an invention or pursue a venture, discovering how knowledge can change the world around them.

Together, these roles ensure every student is known, challenged, supported and inspired. We are seeking ambitious colleagues to help design, soft-launch and refine GR8, turning this vision into a daily experience for young people.

Job Summary

We are looking for people whose professional experience can expand a young person’s sense of what is possible. As a Futures Mentor, you will bring your industry or pathway into students’ lives, helping them ask bigger questions and pursue ideas of their own. A student might investigate climate change, design an invention or develop a venture, guided by someone who understands how that work happens in practice.

You will work across all GR8 curricula, tailoring experiences to students’ interests and stage of development. We welcome professionals seeking a career change, practitioners who wish to contribute alongside their existing careers, and educators or careers advisers with industry experience. Part-time and full-time opportunities allow us to shape the role around the expertise and contribution you can bring.

Skills Description

Key responsibilities

• Open students’ eyes to the possibilities in your field, sharing the questions, discoveries and challenges that make your work matter, and helping students find interests they want to pursue.
• Bring the world of work and research into learning, using current examples and real problems to show how knowledge is applied and how new discoveries change what is possible.
• Turn curiosity into purposeful enquiry, helping students frame ambitious questions, test ideas, evaluate evidence and develop projects that lead to tangible discoveries or outcomes.
• Help students imagine and pursue their next steps, offering informed insight into study, careers and entrepreneurship, and drawing on specialist guidance where needed.
• Create meaningful encounters with professionals, drawing on appropriate contacts and expertise to broaden students’ perspectives and connect their interests with authentic opportunities.
• Coordinate with Learning Architects and Academic Mentors, sharing project goals, progress and feedback, and reinforcing skills introduced in dedicated workshops.
• Help build GR8’s futures pathways across all curricula, designing experiences around students’ interests, contributing to the soft launch and refining opportunities with the wider team.
• Uphold school policies and safeguarding practice, maintaining appropriate boundaries, protecting student information and following agreed arrangements for external activities and professional contacts.
  
  

The wider scope of the role will reflect your expertise and agreed time commitment. You may develop industry partnerships, arrange visits and work placements, or coordinate sessions with external experts. Where your experience supports it, you may also provide formal careers guidance and help students with university applications or other next steps.

Essential Requirements

• Substantive professional experience and credible expertise in a relevant industry or pathway.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor young people, explain unfamiliar ideas accessibly and guide enquiry or project work.
• An informed understanding of education and career pathways in your field, and the judgement to recognise when specialist advice is needed.
• The enthusiasm and imagination to turn professional experience into ambitious learning opportunities suited to students’ interests and stage of development.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the reliability to honour an agreed schedule and sustain continuity for students.
• Confidence using digital tools and discussing the impact of AI and other developments within your field.
• Commitment to safeguarding, inclusive practice and completing relevant school induction and training.
  
  

Desirable

• A relevant degree, professional qualification or recognised standing within your field.
• Experience in education, careers advisory work, outreach or structured mentoring of young people.
• A recognised careers-guidance or coaching qualification, or experience supporting progression and university applications.
• Experience leading projects, research, ventures or programmes with tangible outcomes.
• Professional networks that could support appropriate partnerships, project opportunities or encounters with industry.
• Experience supporting young people from a range of educational or cultural backgrounds.
  
  

Starting date: ASAP

Job location: Dubai, UAE

Required availability: 3pm to 6pm, Monday to Thursday and Saturdays (Dubai time)

Working arrangement: Part-time or full-time options

Scope: Across all GR8 curricula

Pathways: STEM careers, politics, diplomacy, research, NGOs and entrepreneurship

GEMS Safeguarding

GEMS Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We are dedicated to creating safe, supportive, and inclusive learning environments where students can thrive, and we expect all employees, volunteers, and partners to share this commitment.

As part of our safer recruitment practices, all successful applicants will be subject to comprehensive pre-employment checks, including verification of identity, qualifications, employment history, professional references, and criminal record checks from all countries of residence and employment, in line with local and international safeguarding requirements. These checks may include enhanced disclosure, prohibition, barring, and overseas police clearance checks where applicable. We are committed to recruiting individuals who uphold the highest standards of professional conduct and child protection.

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