Online Tutor: Business & Marketing (Wellbeing and Professional Development) Penryn, England
Falmouth University
Full Time
Penryn, England
30619 - 34314 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
About The Role
We are looking to recruit an Online Tutor to join our BSc Business and Marketing (Online) team in the Cornwall Business School. Your role will involve working on a module titled ‘Wellbeing and Professional Development’. This module proactively addresses wellbeing in industry, organisational culture, and professional development.
This module content is already recorded, the online tutor leads discussions and reviews students work in weekly tutorials and webinars. Students engage with pre-recorded content that has been created by module leaders in the virtual learning environment and work through this during the week in their own time and come together to meet their online tutor for live sessions.
As the Online Tutor you will deliver live sessions such as webinars, workshops or tutorials each week to a cohort of students. Around these live sessions you will be responsible for topic discussions, and academic guidance via emails, one to ones and an online learning space. You will work closely with the course leader and module leaders to ensure best possible student experience. The hours for this role are flexible and spread throughout the week as agreed by your line manager. The flexibility of this role means that you can fit the hours around existing responsibilities. The role compliments individuals who have freelance careers or other teaching commitments. Each online tutor is responsible for no more than 30 students, making this an extremely rewarding role.
This is a fixed term role, working 7 hours per week from May 2023 supporting a group of students to September 2023.
About You
Educated to degree level, or having equivalent industry experience, the ideal candidate will have experience in working with groups of students from diverse backgrounds at HE level. Student focused, well organised, and digitally literate you will be running live tutorials, webinars, online workshops and providing support for a group of students. Previous experience teaching is required as well as excellent communication skills, and the commitment to deliver an excellent online learning experience for students. You will have knowledge of assessment and pastoral support.
We are looking for candidates who also have the following skills/experience:
- An understanding of the principles and practicalities of online learning.
- Excellent digital literacy.
- Experience of teaching within an HE environment.
- Experience of facilitating learning in online.
For full details of the skills/experience required, please see the full job description.
Due to the online nature of this role, it can be worked remotely, however the successful candidate must be based within the UK and be able to start in May 2023.
The closing date for this position is Sunday 23 April 2023.
About Us
As an employer of choice we can offer the successful candidate for this role a range of benefits, including:
- Employer Pension Contribution up to 12%.
- Annual salary increments (Until top of grade reached)
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Pay
- Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme (Tusker)
Full details on our employee benefits can be found on our careers page www.falmouth.ac.uk/jobs. Alongside these benefits we offer a first class working environment across our campuses with all the facilities you would expect from a leading University.
A successful external candidate for this position would be employed by Falmouth Staffing Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Falmouth University. Employees of Falmouth Staffing Ltd work alongside Falmouth University colleagues in the delivery of Falmouth’s strategic vision and will adopt Falmouth University’s HR policies and procedures in full.
Falmouth University welcomes and encourages job applications from people of all identities and backgrounds, particularly those under-represented and/or marginalised, as it is important we have a diverse range of candidates to consider.
