Student Casual - The Birmingham Project Teaching Associates - Academic Services - Careers Network - Grade 6 - 902124
Student Casual - The Birmingham Project Teaching Associates - Academic Services - Careers Network - Grade 6 - 902124
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School or Department: Academic Services Careers Network
Location: University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham UK
Grade: Grade 6
Hourly rate: 16.69 per hour plus holiday entitlement
Casual contract from: 02/06/2025 20/06/2025
Positions available: 20
Advert closing date: Thursday 17th April 2025 23.59 p.m.
If we receive a high volume of applications then we may close this advert early. We recommend that you apply as soon as possible.
Our offer to you
People are at the heart of what we are and do.
The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years andweare equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university. We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond support them to succeed and celebrate their success.
We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas innovation and warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we areand how we work.
The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus including main bus routes and a train station on campus we have a stateoftheart sports centre with pool shopsplaces to eat and drinkour own art gallery museum and botanical gardens.
Find out more about thebenefits of working for the Universityof Birmingham
Background
The Birmingham Project is an interdisciplinary cocurricular programme for first year undergraduate students which sees the students working on a realworld challenge to develop their research and employability skills. The students do this by developing a solution to an academic question set by the lead academic/Professional Services lead.
On the final day of the programme the students deliver an assessment this follows the format of an assessed presentation to peers Teaching Associates university staff and employer partners.
The programme is supported by employer partners a network of academics and Professional Services leads.
This role is a fixed term casual position from Monday 2 June 2025 Friday 20 June 2025 for a total of 25 hours.
- Week 1 (w/c Monday 2 June 2025: 4 hours
- Week 2 (w/c Monday 9 June 2025: 20 hours
- Week 3 (w/c Monday 16 June 2025: 1 hour
The role requires the commitment and availability for the above specific set of dates and requires both facetoface and online activity (as prescribed by the programme). There are compulsory elements for attendance and flexibility of hours for the remainder of the week.
The compulsory inperson dates for the role are:
- Monday 2 June 2024 (approximately 3 hours)
- Monday 9 June 2024 (approximately 7 hours)
- Friday 13 June 2024 (approximately 6 hours).
The remaining hours for the week Monday 9 Friday 13 June are flexible but would include: meetings with students academics and answering queries.
There will also be approx. 4 hours of training ahead of the Birmingham Project delivered inperson and online. The inperson training will be delivered on Monday 2 June.
Interview date: Tuesday 6 May 2025 (On campus)
Role Summary
- Facilitating and supporting students in groups (from all disciplines) to manage project delivery and implementation
- Supporting with video creation
- Supervising students daily and supporting where necessary
- Work within a clear and established teaching programme set by the academic responsible for the course who supervises and manages the roleholder. The academic supervisor not the roleholder is responsible for designing the course content mode of delivery and assessment criteria and arrangements.
Main duties
- Each Teaching Associate will support one to three groups of students (maximum of 10 per group) working within a clear and established teaching programme set by the Birmingham Project.
- Deliver teaching activities within a class tutorial or other group context in support of teaching for which others have primary responsibility the students through team building idea generation research skills completion of ethics materials and developing an effective assessed presentation.
- Supervise class activities within a framework designed by others; ensuring project is on track and providing guidance where necessary to prompt stalled projects.
- Assist students as required offering advice to help them with learning problems.
- Provide support to staff engaged in teaching.
- Update own subject knowledge and to develop own teaching expertise.
- Carry out administrative tasks related directly to the delivery of teaching including monitoring of attendance providing daily group summaries and communicating programme issues to the Birmingham Project team.
- Providing advice to students regarding research methods and any ethical considerations referring students to subject advisors where necessary.
- Supporting students through regular meetings providing constructive feedback to proposals.
- Providing guidance on analysing and presenting survey research data (quantitative and qualitative) as part of digital outputs and presentation material
- Providing feedback to Challenge Lead on student progress
- Acting as point of contact in the absence of Challenge Lead.
- Promotes equality and values diversity acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture.
- Supporting panel members with the assessment of group presentations
Person Specification
- Degree or equivalent relevant to teaching area.
- Excellent communication skills
- Practical experience of applying the relevant skills and techniques for the role.
- Ability to analyse information and communicate effectively.
- Ability to access and organise resources successfully.
- Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010 and how to actively ensure in daytoday activity in own area that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly.
- A current Postgraduate student at the University of Birmingham (any discipline)
For any informal queries please contact Bob Lee .
View our staff values and behaviourshere
Valuing excellence sustaining investment
We value diversity and inclusion at the University of Birmingham and welcome applications from all sections of the community and are open to discussions around all forms of flexible working.
The University of Birmingham restricts all students to working up to 20 hours per week during term time. If your application is successful and your course does not follow the usual academic term timetable (e.g. PGT PGR or PhD student) you and your supervisor must formally agree vacation periods if this role exceeds 20 hours per week. In addition to this please be aware if you are an International student you will be required to apply to the Registry for the appropriate Authorised Absence.
You are only eligible to apply to this role if you are a current University of Birmingham student. If you are not a University of Birmingham student your application will not be considered.
To work you will need to carry out a right to work checks will need to be completed prior to work commencing.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Part-Time
