Academic Skills Tutor

City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution. The combined university is now one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science and technology. Our students are at the heart of everything that we do, and we are committed to supporting them to pursue their career and personal ambitions.

Our research is engaged, at the frontier of practice and has a positive impact on the world around us.

Background

City St. George's is seeking to recruit an Academic Skills Tutor to join the Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) service. LEaD is a multi-skilled service that supports, develops, and influences education at City St. George’s, University of London. We contribute to educational strategy; run a Masters in Academic Practice; work with staff to further develop their pedagogic practices; help implement and develop educational technologies and learning spaces; and support students with their academic skills, digital literacy skills, and academic English language skills.

Responsibilities

The Academic Skills tutor post is a full-time position for a fixed period of 14 months. This role is within the Academic Skills Team with a focus on delivering, developing and evaluating a first-year academic transition programme for all undergraduate programmes from 25/26. The role will also involve other activities such as working with students, academic and professional services colleagues to develop students’ academic skills. This is done through in-person and online tutorials, webinars, group sessions and materials on the VLE.

Person Specification

The successful candidate will be educated to degree level, hold a postgraduate teaching qualification, have two years' experience of delivering academic skills support to students in an FE or HE learning environment, but experience of delivering an academic transition programme in an FE or HE learning environment is essential. This experience will include delivering both in-person and online content and support for individual and groups using an AV platform such as Teams and developing online academic skills resources for the VLE such as Moodle. They will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Additional Information

Closing date: 7th May 2025 at 11:59pm.

Interview date: 23rd May 2025.

The selection process will involve an interview and a presentation. Further details will be confirmed at the interview stage.

City St George’s offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

At City St George’s, subject to agreement, relevant Professional Services roles may be undertaken in a hybrid way, involving a mixture of working on campus and at home each week.

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