Teaching and Learning Coordinator - Student Experience

About us

UCL’s Department of Political Science & School of Public Policy offers you a uniquely stimulating environment for the study of all fields of politics, including international relations, political theory, human rights, public policy-making and administration. The Department is recognised for its world-class research and policy impact, ranking second in the UK in the latest Guardian rankings on research excellence in politics. Over 150 people make up the Department of Political Science including academic, teaching, and research staff, professional services, and MPhil/PhD students (for an overview of our research, see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/drupal/site_political-science/research).

About the role

The Department of Political Science is looking to hire one Teaching and Learning Coordinator – Student Experience. The post is an open ended role and available immediately. The salary will be on the UCL Teaching and Learning Grade 7, £42,099 - £50,585 per annum (inclusive of London Allowance).

The post will be one of four Teaching and Learning Co-ordinator posts in the team. The Teaching and Learning team (12 posts in total) is responsible for the delivery of a high-quality administrative service and student experience for the Department’s taught undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. The post will provide comprehensive support on the Department’s teaching programmes, ensuring effective procedures are documented and adopted for dealing with all aspects of programme administration. The post will work to ensure that best practice is implemented across the teaching administration team and address issues that arise, by providing leadership, training and support.

The post will have line management responsibilities of two direct reports. The role holders will act as one of four key contacts for all matters relating to the teaching and learning activities in the Department from enquiry to completion, incorporating supporting committees, processes relating to student record management and the management of examination processes. For informal queries regarding the vacancy please contact (email: ) For application process, please contact Polsci.Staffing (email: polsci.staffing(at)ucl.ac.uk)

About you

Experience of working in a higher education or other professional administration environment, with a good understanding of a cyclical workload with peaks and troughs, evidence of excellent administrative skills and a highly proactive approach to providing a comprehensive support service including providing a student/customer service are essential.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits:

• 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Hybrid Final Salary Pension Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay 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 encourage applications from those who are underrepresented in the sector and at UCL including but, not exclusive, to disabled, D/deaf and neurodiverse people, LGBT+ people, people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds, especially 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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