Widening Participation Postgraduate Tutor

This post is offered on a part-time basis (no fixed working pattern) with a minimum of 40 hours throughout the entire contract. Your hours will vary depending on your availability. It is fixed term from October 2024 with funding until July 2025. Please note this is not a full time post.

Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme

The post for which you are applying is considered “registered work” in terms of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups Act. It requires the successful applicant to become a Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme member prior to appointment. This check is necessary to ensure that the University of Glasgow fulfils its legal duties under the Act.

If you are successful in your application, the offer of employment will be subject to PVG Scheme membership. Further information is available at: www.mygov.scot/pvg-scheme.

Please note that under Section 34(1) of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 it is a criminal offence to apply to carry out or to carry out regulated work from which that individual is barred.

The University of Glasgow has been changing the world for more than 573 years, and today we are one of the world's top 100 universities. We are delighted to have recently been awarded Scottish University of the Year by the Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024, demonstrating that we are not only one of the best universities in the United Kingdom, but one of the best universities for the world. Our people have always been at the forefront of innovation, and our past achievements inspire our current world changers.

As a Widening Participation (WP) Postgraduate Tutor you will assist the University of Glasgow (UofG) WP team in taking forward the suite of UofG WP programmes: FOCUS West (Focus on College and University Study in the West of Scotland) Top-Up Programme; Reach (Access to the High Demand Professions) Programme; Access to a Career Programme; UofG Summer School; UofG Taster Weeks; UofG Sutton Trust Summer School.

You will tutor pupils in secondary schools, on the University campus and online: to raise awareness and aspiration of Higher Education (HE) as an option; on all aspects of the HE application process; in the key skills required for successful first year study at a Higher Education Institution. Please note that tutoring sessions do run during the school day.

Interviews are scheduled to take place between 26^th August to 6^th September (TBC). Not all dates will be used and interviews will be conducted over Zoom.

If you are successful following interview, you MUST be available for training between 7^th to 11^th October 2024. Additional training dates will be confirmed. Training will take place at different points during this timescale.

Upon successful completion of training, employment will commence in October 2024.

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