Graduate Teaching Assistant: ESD

About us

The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) at University College London (UCL) is an international centre specialising in academic teaching, practical training, research and consultancy in the fields of urban and regional development and planning. It is concerned with promoting sustainable forms of development, understanding rapid urbanisation and encouraging innovation in the policy, planning and management responses to the economic, social and environmental development of cities and regions, especially in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. The Development Planning Unit attracts a range of staff members with both academic and professionals backgrounds in the field of international development. Teaching, research and advisory work at the DPU includes significant degree engagement with practice and field experience, including an international field trip.

About the role

The MSc Environment and Sustainable Development (ESD) programme is strongly interdisciplinary, attracting participants from a wide variety of disciplines, including anthropologists, economists, geographers and natural scientists, as well as planners, architects and engineers. A central concern of the programme is to equip participants with a critical understanding of the sustainable development debate and practice, unveiling the political, social and economic forces underlying environmental conflicts in urban regions of the global south and exploring concrete approaches to address their causes. The programme adopts an international comparative perspective, exploring the specific conditions for intervention in different contexts all over the world.

The Graduate Teaching Assistant provides support to the Programme Leaders of the MSc Environment and Sustainable Development (ESD) programme for academic administration, and basic academic inputs into the programme.

This post is available from September and is on an open-ended contract.

About you

Candidates need to be educated to Masters level in a subject related to the work of the Development Planning Unit. They need to demonstrate good interpersonal skills and excellent administrative and organisational skills, in particular a good knowledge of computer software (e.g. Moodle, Microsoft Office, Excel). The Graduate Teaching Assistant will also help to manage IT systems involved in the web-based elements of the programme.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below: 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days) Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan On-Site nursery On-site gym Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service Discounted medical insurance

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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. You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/

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