UA Global Hiring for Academic Skills Tutor Job at Manchester, England Full Time

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Job Purpose:

· To develop and deliver the curriculum with high quality learning resources, engaging learning activities and use of digital technologies as appropriate to enhance quality and accessibility.

· To ensure that students have a high quality and effective learning experience through provision of teaching, learning, assessment, curriculum development and individual learner support.

· To work with industry partners to ensure the curriculum and its delivery has currency from a professional practice and prospective employer perspective.

· To participate actively in aspiration raising, student recruitment and partnership development to attract students and ensure viable cohorts in your subject area.

Tutor Duties:

Curriculum Design

· Engage with course and curriculum design and development.

· Participate in course and curriculum review and enhancement, in a manner that focuses on student learning outcomes, satisfaction, continuation, attainment and progression.

· Engage with the partnerships team, external partners and community groups to facilitate specific contributions to the curriculum design and delivery, and the wider student experience as required.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

· Deliver highly effective and engaging learning and teaching activities at various levels including undergraduate, postgraduate, and potentially Access/foundation on campus, online, in an external setting or in a project-based learning environment.

· Ensure high professional standards are maintained at all times in student engagement and subject delivery.

· Develop and deliver well formed, appropriate and valid assessments, which allow all learners the opportunity to demonstrate the security of their attainment of module and programme learning outcomes.

· Engage as necessary in supporting individual learners.

· Comply with all quality assurance and enhancement mechanisms in place including completion of necessary documentation, adhering to agreed assessment and feedback time scales, moderation and validation activities.

· Respond positively to student feedback (formal and informal) and peer evaluation, and adopt a constructive approach when engaging in the review of other colleagues.

· Engage positively with processes that enable UA92 and Lancaster University and any other relevant external body to undertake franchise, validation, accreditation and audit activities.

· Report on key performance indicators relating to attendance, retention and achievement, developing and implementing plans to improve performance.

· Engage actively in scholarship in your discipline area to maintain the currency of your knowledge and personal credibility in your subject domain.

· Engage in professional development and scholarship in pedagogic approaches relating to learning, teaching, assessment and feedback, ensuring your practice is up to date, uses modern techniques and technologies, and includes innovation.

· Maintain a good understanding of the industries related to your subject domain and the current and future graduate-level employment opportunities within them.

Organisational Support / Development

• Participate in knowledge and practice sharing and building of interdisciplinary collaborations both within UA92 and, where appropriate, with external partners.

• Engage actively and proactively in student recruitment activities and events including, but not limited to, profile and aspiration raising events, subject taster activities, progression partnership building activities, open days, applicant visit days and outreach visits.

• Provide academic support for commercial and business development activities, as required.

• Participate in and contribute to boards, committees, working groups and projects including development of new modules and programmes, innovation initiatives and wider organisational development.

If you think that you are suitable for this Tutor role, then please apply today!

Closing Date: 6/9/21

Expected start date: 20/09/2021

Job Types: Part-time, Contract

Salary: £22.22-£43.24 per hour

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Application question(s):

• Do you hold the right to work in the UK?
• Do you hold a teaching qualification?

Work remotely:

• No