Senior Language Tutor/Academic Leader

Job reference: HUM-027716
Salary: £46,485 - £56,921 per annum, dependent on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational unit: Humanities
Location: Oxford Road
Employment type: Permanent
Division/Team: University Centre for Academic English
Hours per week: 35 hours per week (1 FTE)
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/01/2025
Contract duration: Permanent
School/Directorate: School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

University Centre for Academic English (UCAE)
Senior Language Tutor / Academic Leader

We’re looking for a Senior Language Tutor / Academic Leader who can and wants to work across our full range of programmes. Whilst our academic year can be dominated by our very large pre-sessional, we’re also busy with in-year academic language and skills, contributions to foundation programmes, and intensive general English courses, to name but just three. Thus, whilst your first year with us is very likely to involve a co-ordination role on our pre-sessionals, the following years could see work on these or indeed any of our other areas.

With that in mind, flexibility and recognizing the positives of potential ‘role variety’ is a key need, and we’d suggest a major factor if you’re going to enjoy your time with us.

Within the University our internal stock is high, and externally it seems like we’re doing the right thing with the British Council rating us as the joint top University Centre, and BALEAP giving us a stellar Summer 2024 report. So we think you’d be joining a good Centre that has the fundamentals roughly correct, but in truth – like everyone else - we’re navigating the reality and possibilities of modes of delivery whilst digesting the complexities of GenAI.

We’re a group of people who ask, or indeed are asked about - the ‘what’, ‘how’, ‘where’ and ultimately ‘why’ of everything we do – and our responses would indicate that we’re not always in pedagogical agreement. Every time we do something, we probably end up with as many questions as answers, and this creative uncertainty - as well as an increase in the speed of change – is and will be a constant. We would politely suggest this has to appeal and excite over other responses.

In that context, your ability to do the role as described should be a given and (obviously) the more qualifications and experience you have, the more the chance to shine in the application process. If that ability comes with significant energy, some examples of how you’ve achieved and applicable initial thoughts on what we do, then you should apply. To note, the more that you can tie in these attributes with the job description when you complete the ‘additional information’, the easier it will be for us to see how you’d contribute.

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Appointment timeline and interview process

Our aim is for the successful candidate to start in April 2025. Please note that a starting date later than Tuesday 22 April will be very tricky to enable.

Our plan is for the interview process to have two stages.

• An online interview (up to 30 mins) on Monday 17^th February.
• Successful candidates will then be invited to come to Manchester to meet potential future UCAE colleagues, and to have a second ‘face to face’ interview on Friday 21 February.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Lisa Jameson (Deputy Centre Manager)

Email: lisa.jameson@manchester.ac.uk

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