Post Graduate Teaching Assistant (INTERNAL ONLY

Post Graduate Teaching Assistant (INTERNAL ONLY)

r B03-03199 Professional Expertise Teaching, Teaching Support and Examination Support Department UCL SLASH (B03) Location London Working Pattern Part time Salary £36,433-£41,833 Contract Type Fixed-term Working Type On site Available for Secondment No Closing Date 11-Aug-2026

University College London (UCL) is the largest of the colleges in the federation that makes up the University of London. It is consistently rated as one of the top multi-faculty universities in the UK and has an annual turnover in excess of £400m. UCL is one of the UK’s premier research institutions encompassing immense research strength across all areas. It is also developing numerous interdisciplinary research centres.

UCL has an excellent library and the library resources available in London, such as the British Library, are unrivalled in the UK. The department has an outstanding international reputation in key areas of current research including applied theory, econometrics, game theory, labour economics, development economics, and macroeconomics. The Department of Economics has placed #1 for research environment and outputs in the 2021  and ranked #3 overall.

Further information about the Department of Economics is available from the department’s website at  The Department of Economics wishes to appoint Teaching Assistants for the 2026/27 academic year. The purpose of this job is to support teaching and learning in our modules, working with the academic modules leads through the delivery of small group teaching for students taking modules in the Economics Department.

The main duties will be agreed between the Teaching Assistant and the module lead. The workload will include allowances for tutorial class teaching including preparation time, regular meetings with the course lecturer, provision of feedback to students, a weekly office hour and two office hours in Term 3, supporting lecturers in designing and delivering online teaching and learning activities such as attendance reporting on Moodle (UCL’s virtual learning environment), coursework assessment and assessment marking.

Teaching Assistants will be given training in support of their roles and are required to attend compulsory training sessions. In some cases, teaching on one module across all terms will give you the equivalent hours of a full Teaching Assistant post. In other cases, you may need to teach across modules to make up the hours, given variation in module cohort size and requirements of the lecturers.

The successful candidate(s) will ordinarily have, or are currently pursuing a postgraduate degree (PhD or equivalent), preferably in Economics or a related subject. We also welcome applicants from excellent graduates of our UCL Economics BSc and/or MSC programmes with suitable academic qualifications and a proven interest in economics research and teaching (eg, currently pursuing a Masters). Previous teaching experience is desirable.

We are seeking to recruit part‑time Teaching Assistants for a number of hours equivalent to 6 hours per week over 12 months, with teaching happening in Term 1 and Term 2, and additional assessment support directly at the end of these terms (MSc Finance) and in Term 3 (BSc and MSc Economics). Details of UCL’s term dates for 2026/27 can be found here.

Note that the MSc Economics degree does not have a Term 2 Reading Week and the MSc Finance degree has Reading Weeks in neither Term. You would need to commit to be available, on days and times allocated to you by the Department, for all three terms. You can apply for a full TAship, 6 hours per week over a year, or a one and half TAship being 4 hours, or a half TAship being 3 hours across the year.

The appointments will be made on a Grade 6, point 22 (currently £19.14 per hour inclusive of London Allowance). Teaching Assistants are expected to be able to commit to be present on the Bloomsbury campus during the terms for which teaching is allocated and during the Term 3 assessment period if required. Teaching Assistants also need to be confident switching, potentially at short notice, to delivering their…