We advertise all job vacancies on our website with a link to our staff recruitment application system. Visit the pages below to see the roles we are currently advertising:

• Academic/Teaching roles
• Educational Support roles
• Administration and Operations roles
• Leadership roles

You can also sign up for email alerts for new vacancies in each job category on the pages linked above. 

On the basis of entry criteria, both campuses are the same.

However, the number of places opening each year at each campus is different for some grades. As an example, East Campus creates an additional 22 spaces each year in K2, and also recruits to replace any students who leave, while Dover Campus does not create any additional K2 spaces, and only replaces the few students who leave. The capacity per grade on each campus is illustrated below.

Sign up to receive job alerts via email by visiting our Vacancies pages and clicking on the orange bell icon which appears on the page at the top of the list of current vacancies.

Alerts are available for the three broad categories: 

• Teaching (Academic Faculty)
• Educational Support 
• Administration and Operations

Follow UWCSEA on LinkedIn to keep up to date with our Leadership roles as they become available.

We do not have a ‘register of interest’ for full time jobs at UWCSEA. Please sign up to the automatic email notifications and follow us on LinkedIn to keep up to date with job vacancies at the College.

We have a register of interest for two specific types of teaching roles; you can find more information and the links to submit an application to be considered on these pages:

1. Supply (Relief) Teachers 
2. Home Language Teachers to support our Home and Community Languages Programmes

As soon as a vacancy is confirmed we post the job on our website. Typically we start advertising teaching roles for the following school year from 1 October and continue on a rolling basis throughout the year.

Educational Support, Administrative and Operations and Leadership roles are also posted as soon as the vacancy is confirmed; this can happen at any time of the year.

For the most part, we do not consider candidates for non-teaching or part-time teaching roles who are not already in Singapore on a valid immigration pass.

On the rare occasion we are open to hiring an overseas candidate, our job advertisement will state very clearly if we will consider applicants who are not yet residing in Singapore.

While having a sibling is one of the factors we take into consideration when allocating places, we admit between 800 and 1,000 students each year, and a proportion of these are always students who do not have siblings enrolled at the College.

We publish the number of students and number of families on each campus here: Dover | East 

We will always indicate which campus in Singapore the role is located on in our job ad. Full time teaching roles are all based on a single campus. If a job is a ‘dual campus’ role we will indicate this in our job advertisement; these roles are more often leadership or administrative jobs.

Dover Campus: means you will work at at 1207 Dover Road, Singapore 139654 | directions 
East Campus: means you will work at 1 Tampines Street 73, Singapore 528704 | directions 

Some roles are ‘dual campus’ roles, and this means that you would be working for the College, with responsibilities on behalf of both campuses. In terms of where these roles are located, some jobs require regular time on both campuses in each working week; others have a permanent base on one campus and very occasionally travel to the other campus (we operate a shuttle bus between the campuses). For example, a number of administrative roles are based solely on one campus but work on projects behalf of both campuses. 

We’re a mission-led organisation. Our UWCSEA Guiding Statements inform all that we do, whether you’re teaching, handling accounts payable, coaching a sports team, running our building systems or working in Admissions.

Find out more about what it's like to be part of our staff and community by exploring these pages. 

No. Transition from Grade 10 to Grade 11 is not subject to any academic thresholds.

Current students select their preferred High School and IB Diploma Programme subject options in Term 2 of Grade 10. In the vast majority of cases these preferences are accommodated. In the rare cases where we are concerned about a student’s choice, the Head of Grade invites the student and parents to discuss subject options. The goal is to ensure that the combination of subjects will allow each individual student to enjoy a successful outcome.

If an application is received and our initial review of the application clearly identifies that the student does not meet out eligibility criteria, which includes requiring significant support outside of the scope of our English as an Additional Language programme, we will not refund the application fee when closing the application. 

For this reason, before submitting an application, please carefully review our guidelines about the scope of our English as an Additional Language (EAL) programme here.

We allocate places to individual applicants based on our holistic admissions profile, which takes into account the individual profile of the applicant, while also factoring in a number of considerations within the existing cohort, for example gender balance or month of birth.

Families who make an application for more than one child are asked to indicate in the application whether they will accept an offer of a place for one child if the other applicants cannot be offered places. 

Applications are considered successfully submitted only when both the application fee has been paid in full and all of the required documentation is included in the application.  

Regardless of when you submit an application, for each individual application we will:

1. Acknowledge the application by email within 10–15 days:
   • confirming the application is successfully submitted and that no further information is required at this stage; OR
   • advising the application has not been successfully submitted and requesting any missing documentation or information; once this is received we will then email to confirm the application submission date and progress to the initial eligibility review (outlined below)
2. Advise initial eligibility review outcome via email or call within one month:
   • confirmation that the applicant has met our eligibility criteria and that they are placed in the relevant application pool for consideration OR
   • request for more information or an invitation to attend an interview or assessment (although this may take place later) OR
   • advise that the applicant has not met our entry criteria and so will not be considered for a place (the application is then closed)

Please contact Admissions if it has been more than 15 working days since you believe you have successfully submitted your application and you have not received an acknowledgement email. 

We receive and review all applications for all jobs at UWCSEA only via our online staff recruitment system.

We collect all information relevant to your application via our online recruitment system so that we can review all applicants equally and effectively. For this reason, we do not accept applications in any other format eg. email, mail, hand delivered

Academic/faculty/teacher applicants are asked to respond to these statement questions as part of their application:

• Share two or three key skills, qualities, and/or experiences that you would bring to contribute to furthering the UWC mission (200 words)
• What most interests you about this position? Please make specific reference to the individual job description you are applying for (200 words)
• Share one or two strategies that you use to ensure all learners feel that they are seen, valued and heard in your classroom or school (300 words)
• Share one example of how you know a student feels that they belong in your classroom or school (200 words)
• Briefly describe your philosophy of teaching and learning (300 words)

Education Support, Administration and Operations applicants are asked to supply a cover page with a 5,000 character limit. We recommend making specific reference to the individual job description you are applying for, and sharing two or three key skills, qualities, and/or experiences that you would bring to contribute to furthering the UWC mission.  

All applicants are also asked to provide:

• reasons for any employment gaps of more than three months
• two referees
  • academic faculty applicants should include one Head of School referee, either current or last teaching post  
  • all applicants are to include a past supervisor

No, you do not need to attach or upload any documents to the application form. We collect all information via the recruitment system form fields so that we can review all applicants equally.

Please email our Recruitment Team, including your name and the job you have applied for.

It is helpful if you email from the same email address which you have registered in our recruitment system.

If this is your first application to UWCSEA you’ll need to create an account in our online recruitment system before you can submit your application. We recommend creating your account before the application deadline date.

You can create your account via this link. Please use an email address which you will be able to access throughout the application process as this is our primary means of communication with applicants.

This account will allow you to manage your application, to re-apply, or apply to multiple roles should this be necessary.

Yes, please use this link as long as you are using the same email address to access your account.

 

Deferrals are not available. If you are offered a place and are unable to accept, a fresh application must be submitted for the new proposed year of entry. 

Please talk to your Admissions Officer regarding your child's eligibility for consideration in a future year. They will be able to provide an indication if additional information may be necessary to support any re-application.

Parents can re-apply when applications for that year open, by submitting a new application – which will involve updating your previous application, including payment of another application fee.

Once applications open on 1 September, you should:

• Log in to the application system using the same username and password used to create the previous application
• Update all necessary application details and documentation e.g. current school information, new reports, new passport and/or immigration details, a more recent photograph
• Those re-applying for Grade 6 will also now need to add a completed student statement; those re-applying for Grade 7 or above will need to submit an updated student statement
• Pay the application fee

If you applied for entry to K1–Grade 8 in one school year, and received an offer for a Term 2 (January) start after you have already re-applied for the following school year, your re-application fee will be refunded. 

No, we only review applications received via our online application system, so as to make our candidate assessment process as equitable and effective as possible.

Please email our IT Support Team, providing as much detail as possible including your operating system and details of any error messages. Screenshots can be helpful.

Make sure you use the same email address that you registered with in our recruitment system to connect with our IT team for support. This will enable them to identify your account and provide support as quickly as possible.

Operating hours: IT Support is open 7.45am–4.30pm (+GMT8) from Monday to Friday.

K1 and K2 applicants

All K1 and K2 applicants based in Singapore will be invited to a ‘Meet and Play’ session in our kindergarten classrooms with our Infant School team. This short play session (approximately 45 minutes) will give children an opportunity to explore the environment and engage in some play-based activities while meeting some of our teachers. Our experienced teachers will use this interaction to determine if our learning programme would be a good match for the needs of your child.

K1 and K2 applicants based overseas will be asked to provide additional information from your child’s current pre-school, and we may ask to arrange a conversation between one of our Infant School teachers and your child’s current teacher.

NOTE: No advance preparation is necessary for you or your child in order to attend a  ‘Meet and Play’ session. It will help to ensure that your child is well hydrated and they have had a snack to keep them going before this session.

Grade 1 applicants

Some Grade 1 applicants based in Singapore will be invited to attend a ‘Meet and Play’ session, should our Infant School team decide that they need more information to understand if our learning programme will be a good match for your child. This short play session (approximately 45 minutes) will give children an opportunity to explore the environment and engage in some play-based activities while meeting some of our teachers. 

For G1 applicants based overseas whom our Infant School would like more information on, we may ask to arrange a conversation between one of our Infant School teachers and your child’s current teacher. 

NOTE: No advance preparation is necessary for you or your child in order to attend a  ‘Meet and Play’ session. It will help to ensure that your child is well hydrated and they have had a snack to keep them going before this session.

Grades 2–8 Day and Grade 8 Boarding applicants

If our review of the application indicates that the student may require Learning Support, interviews and assessments may be required even if the candidate meets our general entry criteria and the applicant has not specified any learning needs in their application. 

Please refer to our Learning Support and English as an Additional Language (EAL) guidelines for more details.

Grades 9–11 Day and Boarding applicants

All eligible applicants are invited to participate in a Virtual Immersion Programme, which includes interactive activities and an interview. 

Following our initial review of the application we provide details of any assessments needed. All High School applicants who are English as an Additional Language learners will be asked to take an English proficiency assessment. The assessment results are used as a guide for subject selection: they typically do not play a role in the process of allocating places to eligible candidates.

Additional requirements for Grade 11 IB Diploma Programme applicants: 

• those choosing either a Language A other than English or a Language B as their second language will be asked to provide an academic writing sample
• if requesting Art or Music, applicants must provide evidence of their performance standard, generally shared via an online portfolio
• if requesting Design Technology, applicants will be asked to complete a questionnaire 

Grades 8–11 Boarding applicants

All eligible applicants are interviewed by a member of our Residential Life staff, typically the Director of Residential Life or one of the Houseparents. We arrange the interview following our initial review of the application. Boarding interviews for High School applicants are held as part of their Virtual Immersion Programme.

K1 to Grade 8

Following our initial review of the application, we provide details of any assessments needed, which are typically held during UWCSEA term time, beginning in September and running in line with each offer period. 

Grades 9–11

Following our initial review of the application, we provide details of any assessments required to progress the application. To align with our application deadlines, applicants are scheduled to Virtual Immersion Programmes as follows:
Round 1 offer deadline: October to December 
Round 2 offer deadline: January to March

Every K1 and K2 applicant based in Singapore will be invited to a ‘Meet and Play’ session with our Infant School team. This short play session in our Infant classrooms will take approximately 45 minutes, supervised by our Infant School teachers. The children will be given an opportunity to explore the environment and meet some of our teachers. During these sessions our teachers will determine if our learning programme is a good match for the needs of the child.

K1 and K2 applicants based overseas will be asked to provide additional information from the child’s current pre-school, and we may ask to arrange a conversation between one of our Infant School teachers and their current teacher.

For Grade 1 applicants, this Meet and Play session is not compulsory; the Infant Team will ask us to invite only those applicants who they would like to meet in person so as to help them to determine if our learning programme is a good match for the needs of the individual child.

There is no preparation required from you or your child. It will help to ensure that your child is well hydrated, and they have had a snack to keep them going before this session.

Following our initial eligibility review of the application, applicants who meet our entry criteria are invited to a Virtual Immersion Programme (VIP) as the next stage in our application review process. The VIP includes interactive activities and an interview.

To ensure a diverse group of participants and VIP timings that suit the applicant's time zones, each applicant is assigned a particular date, and parents are given at least two weeks notice of the date and time of the VIP. 

Around 16 applicants, each event includes interactive activities and an interview. Applicants participate in a discussion forum and activities led by Admissions staff and UWCSEA High School students. Applicants are also interviewed by a member of our High School or Boarding teams, depending on whether they are day or boarding applicants. 

To align with our application deadlines, applicants are scheduled to VIPs as follows:
Round 1 offer deadline: October to December 
Round 2 offer deadline: January to March

If our eligibility review of the application indicates we require an assessment, dual applicants will only need to attend or complete one assessment. Likewise, High School applicants will be invited to attend one Virtual Immersion Programme and interview. The assessment outcome will be the same for your application to both campuses.

Should the assessment outcome be that the student is eligible to be considered for a place, they will be placed in the application pool for both campuses. 

Infant School

K1 to Grade 1 Meet and Play sessions are with the Vice Principal of the Infant School and specialist Infant School staff. They take approximately 1 hour in total including arrival time.

Grade 8 Boarding

Grade 8 applicants are interviewed by the Director of Residential Life or Boarding Houseparents for approximately 30-45 minutes.

High School (Day and Boarding)

Grade 9 to Grade 11 eligible applicants are all invited to a Virtual Immersion Programme, which lasts approximately 1.5 hours. The interview with the High School or Boarding team staff is approximately 30-45 minutes.

Applicants whose application indicates that they may require English B  will be invited to take a proctored online English as an Additional Language (EAL) assessment lasting approximately 40 minutes before being invited to a Virtual Immersion Programme.

Learning Support

When we review applications, even if you are not specifically applying to join our Learning Support Programme, we may determine that we need more information about your child’s learning, based on all of the information provided to us in your initial application.

The assessment will be conducted by our Learning Support Team and may take anywhere between 30 and 90 minutes.

Eligible applicants requiring EAL or Learning Support are more likely to be considered for an offer of a place in Round 2, because it is only at that stage in the current school year that our staff can assess if we will be able to provide a place in our EAL or Learning Support programmes. This is because after Term 1 we are able to make a more accurate assessment of the likely ongoing needs of the existing cohort of students, and therefore our capacity to admit and support new students.

Once we have reviewed an application, whether for the EAL programme or not, we contact the family to advise of the outcome of our initial review and the next steps, if any. At this point, there are a number of applications which we close because our general entry criteria are not met. If we cannot support an EAL applicant's needs in our EAL programme, we close the application. In both instances, we will let you know the reasons for our decision.

Please refer to our EAL guidelines for more details.

If our review of the application indicates that the student may require Learning Support, interviews and assessments may be required even if the candidate meets our general entry criteria and the applicant has not specified any learning needs in their application. 

Please refer to our Learning Support guidelines for more details.

If we require a student to attend an assessment in-person, we provide details for your visit. If you have applied to Dover or to East only, the campus you will need to visit will be the campus that you have applied to.  

Students can join our boarding community only if their family will not be resident in Singapore for 90% or more of term-time during the school year.  

It is important to know that even if your family spends periods of time in Singapore, or visits Singapore regularly during the school year, a boarding student must fulfil all the expectations and obligations of living in our boarding community. This means they will not automatically be granted permission to leave during the week, or even at weekends. Leave to visit family members who are visiting Singapore is granted by the Director of Residential Life or a Houseparent at their discretion; there are several periods during the school year that borders are expected to be present to participate in our residential boarding programme.  

We do not offer weekly or week-day boarding.

No. Our limited boarding places are intended for students whose families are not resident in Singapore. When circumstances permit, day students who have friends in boarding may be allowed overnight stays to experience boarding life for a short duration.  

We do not offer weekly or week-day boarding, and our boarding programme is such that we are also not able to offer boarding for a single term in a school year.

Yes. You will have to apply through a formal process for your child to transfer to a day student status by contacting the Boarding Admissions Officer. The College will need to ensure that at least one parent (this needs to be a legal parent of the student and not another family member, except in exceptional circumstances; refer to Clause 8.4 of our Standard Terms and Conditions here) will meet our residency requirement for day students i.e. being physically present in Singapore for 90% of term-time.

Important residency requirements:

• day students live with at least one legal parent; this does not extend to other family members e.g. an aunt, uncle, sibling or grandparent or to a guardian arrangement
• once you accept a boarding place, the financial commitment to boarding is for a minimum of one full school year. This means that if your child transfers to become a day student partway through the school year, the boarding fees must still be paid for the full school year (see Section 8 of our UWCSEA Standard Terms and Conditions)

Yes; however, please see the important expectations detailed in Clause 9.5 of our Terms and Conditions here. 

A day student may transfer to boarding status only after attending the College for a minimum of one school year. See Clause 9.4 of our Terms and Conditions here. Transfer to boarding is subject to the student’s suitability for boarding and space availability, and is only an option if your child is in Grade 8 or above. You will need to apply through a formal process for your child to transfer to boarding student status; please start by contacting the Boarding Admissions Officer.  

The Director of Residential Life or a houseparent will interview your child to determine suitability for boarding, and may also wish to have a family meeting before the transfer to boarding is approved. The transfer to boarding is not confirmed until you have received a formal offer for a place in boarding and paid the boarding fees due for the term for which your child will commence as a boarder. Please note that a transfer from a day student to a boarding student is not a guarantee as not all students will be suited to a boarding environment.

No. Meeting our day student residency requirement is only satisfied if the student will be living with a legal parent who will be resident in Singapore for at least 90% of the school year during term. 

By enrolling in the College, parents agree to our UWCSEA Standard Terms and Conditions, which do not permit a student to live with a relative or friend, except under exceptional circumstances, as outlined in Clause 8.2 and 8.4.

You should make the decision about whether you are applying for a day place or a boarding place at the time of submitting your application and not assume that changes will be possible later.

This is because we have limited space availability for each category of offers and different criteria for assessing the student’s suitability for a place as a day-student or as a boarder. Our diversity considerations are also different when deciding whom to select for an offer, with the current cohort of students in the relevant grade and school section, or within the boarding community, strongly affecting our decisions.  

It is usually too late once an offer has been made to reconsider a day applicant for a boarding place, or a boarding applicant for a day place.