Ref Number
B16-01805
Professional Expertise
Teaching, Teaching Support and Examination Support
Department
School of Education (B16)
Location
London
Working Pattern
Part time
Salary
£35,930-£41,255
Contract Type
Fixed-term
Working Type
Hybrid
Available for Secondment
No
Closing Date
27-May-2025
About IOE
IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society.
Founded in 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
The Department of Learning and Leadership (DLL) is a large specialist research and teaching department of approximately 110 academic staff. The department is a major world leader in the following subject areas: Early Years and Primary Education, Educational Leadership, Education Policy, and Initial Teacher Education (ITE). We value innovative research, teaching and enterprise in all these areas and combine the very best of research innovation and evidence-based teaching, with a strong commitment to translating our work into policy and practice.
The purpose of this job is to support teaching and learning in our undergraduate and graduate programmes in Early Years/primary education, Literacy and Educational Leadership, working with the academic programme, module leads, and tutors through the delivery of small group teaching for students taking modules in the Department of Learning & Leadership (DLL).
Main duties of the post are tutorial class teaching, regular meetings with the module leaders and course tutors, provision of feedback to students, provision of weekly office hours, facilitating workshops, attendance reporting, and coursework
Teaching Assistants will be given training in support of their roles.
In these roles, you will:
- Receive appropriate support in developing your teaching practice,and will receive mentoring and departmental guidance in relation to your seminar support
- Be required to attend an introductory, three-hour UCL Arena One Gateway
- Be required to attend a departmental induction meeting and once termly meetings with PGTA lead.
- Receive guidance relating to small group facilitation, assessment and giving You will also have the option of attending an extended course, the UCL Arena One Teaching Associate Programme, and then submitting an application for an Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.
- Be subject to UCL’s current arrangements for peer observation of facilitating
- Be monitored to ensure that you have adequate time to pursue research and not be overburdened with facilitation responsibilities which would be likely to limit your capacity to complete a thesis in the due time.
You will be educated to Masters degree level (or having equivalent experience), in an Education related field and be working towards a PhD in an Education related field (on completion of the PhD, you will no longer be eligible to participate in this PGTA scheme)
Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.
It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
- 41 Days holiday: 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days (pro rata for part time staff)
- Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme (pro rata for part time staff)
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- Immigration loan
- Relocation scheme for certain posts
- On-Site nursery
- On-site gym
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.
These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.
