Futures Mentor - GR8 School

About the role

GR8 School is a GEMS Education school that combines AI-powered, self-paced academic learning with expert teaching and personal guidance. Futures Mentors connect students' curiosity with authentic experience across all curricula, helping them explore questions alongside scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and other practitioners. The role is open to professionals seeking a career change, practitioners wanting to contribute alongside their existing careers, and educators or careers advisers with industry experience; part-time and full-time options are available.

Key responsibilities

• Open students' eyes to the possibilities in your field, sharing the questions, discoveries and challenges that make your work matter, and helping them find interests to pursue.
• Bring the world of work and research into learning, using current examples and real problems to show how knowledge is applied.
• Help students frame ambitious questions, test ideas, evaluate evidence and develop projects that lead to tangible outcomes.
• Offer insight into study, careers and entrepreneurship, drawing on specialist guidance where needed.
• Create meaningful encounters with professionals, drawing on appropriate contacts and expertise.
• Coordinate with Learning Architects and Academic Mentors, sharing project goals, progress and feedback, and reinforce skills from dedicated workshops.
• Help build GR8's futures pathways across all curricula, design experiences around students' interests, and contribute to the soft launch and refinement of opportunities.
• Uphold school policies and safeguarding practice, maintain appropriate boundaries, protect student information and follow arrangements for external activities and professional contacts.
• Depending on your expertise, you may develop industry partnerships, arrange visits and work placements, coordinate sessions with external experts, give formal careers guidance, and help with university applications.

Required profile

• 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.
• Informed understanding of education and career pathways in your field, with judgement about when specialist advice is needed.
• Enthusiasm to turn professional experience into learning opportunities suited to students' interests and stage of development.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, and reliability to honour an agreed schedule.
• Commitment to safeguarding, inclusive practice and completion of school induction and training.

Desirable

• A relevant degree, professional qualification or recognised standing in your field.
• Experience in education, careers advisory, outreach or structured mentoring of young people.
• A 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 partnerships and encounters with industry.
• Experience supporting young people from a range of educational or cultural backgrounds.

Availability: 3pm to 6pm, Monday to Thursday and Saturdays (Dubai time); starting date ASAP. The wider scope of the role reflects your expertise and agreed time commitment.