Job Description

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Associate Tutor (Education, Community and Society)

Grade UE07

Salary Range: \xc2\xa319.91 - \xc2\xa323.65 per hour

Moray House School of Education and Sport

Guaranteed Hours

Fixed Term dates until 31st July 2024

Multiple posts available

The Institute of Education, Community and Society in Moray House School of Education and Sport is inviting applications for Associate Tutors to support the delivery of teaching, including supervising dissertations, for Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes.

We are seeking candidates with expertise in the following areas:

• Developmental psychology of relevance to education

• Neurodiversity

The Opportunity:

Each tutor will be offered a guaranteed minimum offer of hours to work with course organisers in a range of teaching related activities, including the delivery of workshops and tutorials, marking, and supervision, including placement supervision and assessment. There are a number of exciting opportunities across a range of subject areas in the Institute of Education, Community and Society and the School. For more information about our Programmes of study, please visit our website:

Your skills and attributes for success:

• A PhD (or equivalent) relevant to the teaching area, ideally in a subject related area.
• Relevant classroom teaching and dissertation supervision experience, ideally in a subject area related to neurodiversity and developmental psychology in education.
• Highly effective teaching communication skills, including the ability to explain concepts in a clear and understandable manner.
• Demonstrable critical, informed and scholarly capacity to engage with a range of teaching mediums, including virtual learning environments and online platforms.

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Moray House School of Education and Sport is a large and diverse School within the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science. We share a commitment to:

• teaching, supervision and research that is relevant to society and holds to principles of social justice, inclusivity, diversity and accessibility
• the fostering of a welcoming community of learning where staff, students, alumni and friends feel proud to be part of our School, College and University
• deep-rooted and distinctive internationalism, attracting the world\'s best minds and building innovative local and global partnerships for research, supervision, teaching, knowledge exchange and impact
• learning as a socially transformational priority for individuals and communities.

As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits , staff discounts, , flexible working and much more. Access our for further information and use our to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interviews will be held soon after the advert closing date.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our webpages.

The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.

About Us: As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow\'s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

About the Team:

The Institute draws together significant expertise in sport-related studies and is concerned with all levels of education and all forms of research and knowledge exchange that inform and enhance physical education, physical activity, health and well-being; sport and recreation development, coaching, policy and management; and sport and exercise science.

The Institute is the UK\'s largest provider of initial teacher education in physical education and plays the key role in developing the physical education school curriculum within Scotland.

Find out more at https://www.ed.ac.uk/education/institutes/spehs

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