Lecturer in Study Skills
QA Higher Education, Birmingham Campus
Fulltime 9-month fixed term contract - Hybrid Opportunity

Hours: Monday, Thursday & Friday on campus 9-5.30am
Tuesday & Wednesday homebased 10-6.30pm

Do you have teaching experience in English or Business or Finance subjects at UG and PG level? Do you enjoy supporting students on a one-to-one basis, small tutorials, workshops etc. where you can assist our Higher Education students with Academic Study Skills?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity to be part of our growing and expanding team. 
Many of our students are from overseas and often haven’t studied for a few years, so your academic support is needed. We are student-centric and very passionate about our contribution to our students’ future.

Your focus: You will be working within the Academic Community of Excellence (ACE) team to provide guidance to learners on their academic and digital skills development alongside their programme lectures.
You will be delivering effective teaching, learning and support enabling learners to gain the skills they need to succeed as well as excel in their studies.

Here’s a little of what you’ll do:
Deliver engaging and creative learning to meet the needs of the learner
Plan, prepare and deliver effective and engaging one-to-one tutorials and drop-in sessions to support and develop student’s learning and academic skills for a wide range of programmes and subject areas
Develop learning support and skills materials and resources (for face-to-face and online) and maintain them on the Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs)
Plan, prepare and deliver effective and engaging academic workshops (face-to-face and online) and make the accompanying video guide as required
Keep accurate tutorial records to monitor learner progress and achievement
Organise and promote Academic Community of Excellence (ACE) at QA events
Be a Personal Tutor and provide guidance, support and tutorship for student groups and individuals as appropriate
Meet partnership and internal quality assurance processes in relation to programmes

Bring your experience:
Post Graduate Qualification (Master’s/DELTA or equivalent)
Experience of delivering one-to-one academic tutorials and academic workshops
HE skills tutor experience (desirable) 
Relevant teaching qualification HEA or demonstrate teaching experience with a commitment to achieving the required Professional Standards for teaching.
Expertise in subject area in one or more of the following areas Business and Management / Finance / IT / EAP
Ability to use a range of learning and teaching approaches  

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A little more about QA Higher Education: Students preparing for undergraduate study. Working professionals looking to specialise in their field. Career changers. Everyone should be given access to outstanding higher education and our aim at QA is to make that possible.

We work with our partner universities to offer courses ranging from foundation programmes to postgraduate degrees covering subject areas including Accountancy, Business, Computing, Cyber, Digital Marketing, Events Management, Project Management and Web Development and delivered in city centre locations. 

Equal Opportunities at QA Higher Education: our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. This means we continually celebrate the diverse community different individuals cultivate. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone’s place.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake the Basic DBS check.