Academic Skills Tutor

Job title:

Academic Skills Tutor

Company

City St George’s, University of London

Job description

City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution. The combined university is now one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science and technology. Our students are at the heart of everything that we do, and we are committed to supporting them to pursue their career and personal ambitions.Our research is engaged, at the frontier of practice and has a positive impact on the world around us.BackgroundCity St. George’s is seeking to recruit an Academic Skills Tutor to join the Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) service. LEaD is a multiskilled service that supports, develops, and influences education at City, University of London. We contribute to educational strategy; run a Masters in Academic Practice; work with staff to further develop their pedagogic practices; help implement and develop educational technologies and learning spaces; and support students with their academic skills, digital literacy skills, and academic English language skills.ResponsibilitiesThe Academic skills Tutor post is a 0.6 FTE Part time, permanent position based within the Academic Skills Team. The role will involve working with students, academic and professional services colleagues to develop students’ academic skills. This is done through in-person and online tutorials, webinars, City St George’s VLE, and group sessions within the curriculum. The post holder will be predominantly but not exclusively supporting students undertaking health programmes.Person SpecificationThe successful candidate will be educated to degree level, hold a postgraduate teaching qualification, and have two years’ experience of delivering academic skills support to students in an FE or HE learning environment. This experience will include delivering both in-person and online individual tutorials using an AV platform such as Teams, webinars, group classes within the curriculum, developing online academic skills resources, and the use of a VLE such as Moodle. They will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills.Additional InformationClosing date: 21st February 2025 at 11:59pm.City St George’s offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.The University of business, practice and the professions.

Expected salary

£42632 – 49250 per year

Location

London

Job date

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:17:45 GMT

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