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Falmouth University Hiring for Online Tutor: Collaboration Job at Penryn, England Full Time
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About The Role
We are looking to recruit an Online Tutor to join our Falmouth Flexible team delivering an interdisciplinary collaborative module. Your role will involve working on the Collaboration module which is all about teamworking, collective creation and challenge-based learning. The module helps students develop ‘soft skills’, such as communication skills, problem-solving, work ethic, critical thinking, leadership, teamworking, listening, and negotiation which will enhance students’ employability and interpersonal awareness. Students will experience the environment of a collaborative team and will work in groups towards the formulation of complex solutions to industry focussed and real-life problems.
This module content is already recorded, the online tutor leads discussions and reviews students work in weekly tutorials and webinars as well as facilitates groupwork and discussions. Students engage with pre-recorded content that has been created by module leaders in the virtual learning environment and work through this during the week in their own time and come together to meet their online tutor for live sessions.
As the Online Tutor you will deliver live sessions such as webinars and tutorials to a global cohort of students. Around these live sessions you will be responsible for pastoral support, and academic guidance via emails, one to ones, group tutorials, and online spaces You will work closely with the course leader and module leaders to ensure best possible student experience. The hours for this role are flexible and spread throughout the week as agreed by your line manager. The cohort is global so the times of these sessions will alternate am and pm to ensure all can attend. The flexibility of this role means that you can fit the hours around existing responsibilities. Each online tutor is responsible for no more than 30 students, making this an extremely rewarding role.
This is a fixed term, part-time, 7 hours per week, flexible home-working role starting in September 2022 and will support a group of students for 16 weeks until January 2023.
About You
Educated to degree level, or having equivalent industry experience, the ideal candidate will have experience in working with groups of students from diverse backgrounds at HE level. Student focused, well organised, and digitally literate you will be running live tutorials, webinars, online workshops and providing support for a group of students. You will have experience and knowledge linked to collaborative learning and practice and a disciplinary background related to an established Falmouth University discipline (https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/study/online) and preferably previous experience facilitating and supervising educational project work. You will have excellent communication skills and the commitment to deliver an excellent online learning experience for students. Alongside these key skills, you will have knowledge of assessment and pastoral support.
We are looking to hear from candidates who also have the following skills/experience:
- An understanding of the principles and practicalities of online learning
- Strong connections with industry and professional practice
- Excellent digital literacy
- Excellent interpersonal, organisation and presentation skills
- HE Teaching experience
For full details of the skills/experience required, please see the full job description above.
Due to the online nature of this role, it can be worked remotely, however the successful candidate must be based within the UK and be able to start on 12 September 2022.
The closing date for this position is Sunday 31 July 2022.
About Us
As an employer of choice we can offer the successful candidate for this role a range of benefits, including:
- Employer Pension Contribution up to 12%.
- Annual salary increments (Until top of grade reached)
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Pay
- Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme (Tusker)
Full details on our employee benefits can be found on our careers page www.falmouth.ac.uk/jobs. Alongside these benefits we offer a first class working environment across our campuses with all the facilities you would expect from a leading University.
A successful external candidate for this position would be employed by Falmouth Staffing Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Falmouth University. Employees of Falmouth Staffing Ltd work alongside Falmouth University colleagues in the delivery of Falmouth’s strategic vision and will adopt Falmouth University’s HR policies and procedures in full.
Falmouth University welcomes and encourages job applications from people of all identities and backgrounds, particularly those under-represented and/or marginalised, as it is important we have a diverse range of candidates to consider.