Business Tutor

Contract type: Full Time (37.5 hours) – Permanent

Location: Glasgow, Strathclyde International Study Centre

Salary: up to £39,605.59 per annum

With an increased offering of Business programmes and ongoing programme developments, Strathclyde International Study Centre is looking to expand their Business team with a full-time Business and Finance and/or Economics Tutor. We are looking for a dynamic, engaging and creative tutor who is keen to apply their existing teaching skills and subject knowledge, and to develop these further. You must be prepared to collaborate with others and have a desire to contribute positively to the Centre.
You will work with colleagues across the Centre and on occasion across the Study Group network to ensure the effective delivery of teaching programmes in line with our teaching, learning and assessment strategy.

As a tutor, you will contribute to the design, development and production of teaching and learning materials, new product development across a range of Business modules at postgraduate and undergraduate level. You will also be expected to supervise a number of students on our Pre-Master’s programmes.

Responsibilities include contributing directly to student support and to the development and implementation of innovative teaching practices across the Centre, as well as a commitment to continuous professional development, particularly regarding the use of technology to educate students both in and out of the classroom.

• Prepare and deliver teaching on our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including lectures, tutorials and one-to-one supervision
• Write both formative and summative assessments, including examinations and coursework, and ensure that these are prepared in accordance with Centre deadlines
• Mark students’ formative and summative assessments and provide timely feedback to students on their performance, including the writing of termly student reports.
• Contribute to the design, delivery and development of modules offered by the International Study Centre
• Develop and maintain module pages on the University of Strathclyde’s Virtual Learning Environment (Moodle)
• Work with the Centre’s administration team in the delivery of induction, orientation and registration programmes.
• Notify and liaise with colleagues, where necessary, to ensure all students receive appropriate on-going welfare and progression support.
• Contribute to the centre’s tracking of students’ progress and identify and implement appropriate intervention strategies to support on-going learning.
• Take part in the Centre’s structured procedures for supporting students, including one-to-one meetings with them when necessary
• Follow centre protocol and liaise with colleagues and line manager according to procedure, in particular regarding compliance processes such as class timetabling, student attendance and engagement monitoring.
• Implement quality assurance procedures at module and teaching session level and contribute to the annual monitoring and review of courses.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of students’ attendance and performance.
• Attend and contribute to standardisation, moderation and other quality assurance meetings.
• Participate in regular meetings with teaching and support staff contributing to the effective overall management of the programme and student life cycle, including regular team meetings and one-to-one meetings with the line manager
• Participate in the Centre and University governance structure, including attending all compulsory meetings.
• Maintain and submit accurate and timely records of teaching and other activities.
• Participate in regular training and development activities, including mandatory induction and compliance training, and maintain a log of these activities.
• Carry out any other duty as required from time to time by the line manager or other members of Centre management

• A Master’s degree in one of the following broad subject areas:
  Economics, Finance or Business
• A relevant teaching qualification, or to be in the process of achieving this. Experience may be used as an accepted alternative.
• Fluent spoken and written English.
• Experience of teaching…