Postgraduate Teaching Assistant - B16-01096 (Available to UCL Students ) London, England
Job description
About us
About IOE
IOE is UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. Foundedin 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
The Centre for Doctoral Education (CDE) undertakes research to inform, challenge and develop doctoral education internationally.
Our work explores the experiences, practices and achievements of doctoral students, supervisors and early career researchers. We draw on this expertise to offer doctoral programmes within our own institution, supporting the largest concentration of doctoral students studying education and related social sciences in the UK.
About the role
You will be to facilitate sessions for doctoral students that form part of the IOE’s research training programme, which may include
(1) the IOE MPhil/PhD Core Course (IMPCorC);
(2) the post-upgrade workshop;
(3) Qualitative Data Analysis;
(4) ‘Quantitative Analysis 1’ and ‘Quantitative Analysis 2’;
(5) the IOE Doctoral Community student-led engagement scheme
(6) IOE CDE Poster Conference, Summer school and Conference and 3 Minute Thesis Competition.
We will recruit a number of Post Graduate Teaching Assistants. Each appointment may have up to 180 hours employment available and are available from 1 September 2023 to 31 July 2024.
Please be aware that UCL students may only be employed up to 180 hours in total as a PGTA across all UCL programmes.
Please note these roles are only open to UCL IOE Post Graduate Research (PGR) Students who have completed their Upgrade from MPhil to Phd or their IFS (Ed.D).
About you
You must be a current doctoral student at UCL IOE and have completed a successful upgrade from MPhil to PhD; or successful completion of IFS for EdD students before the 1st September 2023
You will have the ability to facilitate constructive discussion of methodological issues and an interest in relevant methodological issues and the ability to provide constructive suggestions on student proposals.
Experience of using Moodle (or similar VLE) and preferably managing Moodle sites and blog-type sites is desirable.
Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.
It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
- 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
- Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- Immigration loan
- Relocation scheme for certain posts
- On-Site nursery
- On-site gym
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance Visit
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.
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 therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.
These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
Our department holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.
