English Tutor at Regent College London, part of the Regent Group

IATEFL Slovenia; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated English Tutor to join their team in London. This role involves teaching, assessment, and supporting students in their academic journey. You will engage students through innovative teaching methods, provide constructive feedback, and contribute to quality assurance efforts. The position offers a chance to work collaboratively with other faculty members while enhancing your own professional development. If you are passionate about education and committed to student success, this opportunity is perfect for you to make a significant impact in a dynamic learning environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in teaching and engaging students in higher education.
• Ability to assess student performance and provide constructive feedback.

Responsibilities

• Teach sessions including lectures and tutorials, ensuring student engagement.
• Support assessment production and provide timely feedback to students.
• Contribute to quality assurance and continuous improvement processes.

Skills

Teaching Skills

Student Engagement

Assessment and Feedback

Quality Assurance

Scholarship and Knowledge Update

Education

Degree in Education or Related Field

Tools

MS Teams

Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs)

Job description

Location: London

Salary: Up to £42,000 per annum subject to skills and experience

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Specific duties and responsibilities

Teaching and Learning

1. Teach a set number of sessions each week, including lecturers, seminars, tutorials.
2. Maintain attendance registers for teaching sessions and work with the attendance team to ensure the accuracy of the information being entered for students on digital registers.
3. Deliver/facilitate teaching sessions in line with the approved programme and module specifications.
4. Work in line with Regent Digital provisions including VLEs and MS Teams.
5. Ensure that students are engaging in their sessions.
6. Develop teaching materials for modules.
7. Update class notes and other materials and ensure that the VLE is regularly updated.
8. Make suggestions through appropriate channels how to improve student academic experience.

Assessment and Marking

1. Support the production of assessments for module/unit and ensure these are approved in accordance with the relevant procedures, as appropriate.
2. Participate in standardisation meetings.
3. Provide students with formative feedback as appropriate.
4. Mark summative assessments as required according to the approved assessment brief and provide timely and constructive feedback to students within the deadlines published by the Assessment Team.
5. Identify cases of possible academic misconduct and escalate these according to the relevant procedure of assessment boards.

Student Support

1. Ensure any issues of student engagement or performance are addressed, signposting students to specialist College services as necessary.
2. Field any pastoral requirements students may have, signposting them to relevant specialist College services as necessary.
3. Monitor the progress of individual students’ Learning Support Plans, liaising with specialist services as necessary.

Quality Assurance

1. Provide a module evaluation report at the end of each module.
2. Contribute to Programme evaluations, as required.
3. Engage with Programme Committee meetings, contributing towards continuous improvement of the students’ learning experiences and the identification of good practice which other programmes and Schools might usefully draw on.
4. Engage with other parts of the College’s quality assurance and academic governance frameworks, as opportunities arise.
5. Reflect on the outcomes of student module feedback questionnaires, identifying areas for improvement as well as good practice which colleagues might usefully draw on.
6. Contribute to the accreditation of programmes and quality control processes.

Scholarship

1. Engage in scholarship as required to support teaching activities and continually update knowledge.
2. Extend, transform and apply knowledge applied from scholarship to teaching and appropriate external activities including knowledge generation, knowledge exchange and knowledge transfer activities.
3. Develop ideas and find ways of disseminating and applying the result of scholarship.

Managing Work and Resources

1. As English Tutor, co-ordinate with teaching faculty from other disciplines to ensure student needs and expectations are met.
2. Manage projects relating to own area of work and the organisation of extra-curricular activities.
3. Mentor colleagues with less experience and advise on personal development.
4. Identify the need for developing the content or structure of modules with colleagues and make proposals on how this should be achieved.
5. Exercise responsibility for the design and delivery of own modules and assessment methods considering established or agreed practice where necessary.
6. Collaborate with colleagues on the implementation of assessment procedures, as required.
7. Tackle issues affecting the quality of delivery within scope of own level of responsibility, referring more serious matters to others, as appropriate.

This position requires candidates to undergo a DBS check as part of the application process.