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Postgraduate Teaching Assistants - Centre for Education and International Development (CEID) MA Cluster

Publicerad 2024-09-20

About the role

The Centre for Education & International Development (CEID) MA Custer wishes to make appointments for Postgraduate Teaching Assistants for the - academic year.

  • Education and International Development MA
  • Education and International Development: Conflict, Emergencies and Peace MA
  • Education, Gender and International Development MA
  • Education, Health Promotion and International Development MA
  • Educational Planning, Economics, and International Development MA
  • Information about CEID is available here: We are looking for PGTAs who have expertise in education and international development and one or more of the following areas: gender, health education/promotion, educational planning, education in emergencies

    The purpose of this job is to support teaching and learning on the MA programmes through individual tutorials, small group teaching and contribution to online teaching materials.

    Main duties of the post are facilitating and supporting seminars and online discussion, tutoring assignments as well as coursework assessment and provision of feedback.

    Postgraduate Teaching Assistants will be given training in support of their roles.

    PGTAs are expected to be able to be present on the Bloomsbury campus during the terms for which teaching takes place, and have good internet access to support online activities.

    Please note these roles are only open to UCL Post Graduate Research (PGR) Students.

    Allocation of hours and duration of the appointment to be discussed at the interview.

    About you

    These roles are available from October to UCL Post-Graduate Research (PGR) students who are registered from 23rd September . The length of the contract will depend on the length of the applicant’s doctoral studies, and will be determined at appointment stage.

    The postholder will be educated to Masters degree level (or having equivalent experience), in education and international development or related field, and working towards a relevant postgraduate degree (PhD, EdD or other doctorate). You will have will have specialist knowledge and skills appropriate to one or more of the five programmes (see above).

    In addition, you have the ability to communicate clearly, both orally and in writing, with students, academic and support staff at all levels, and can work independently for short periods and as part of a team but can recognise when advice / input needs to be sought.

    Please make sure that you state clearly in your application which programme(s) feel that you could teach on. It may not be possible to offer you a position on your preferred programme.

    Please write a short statement (up to words) telling us how you meet each of the criteria listed in the Person Specification and submit this along with a CV (your CV should be a maximum of two pages). At this stage, do not submit anything else (for example, do not submit examples of your work).

    When submitting your statement, please respond to each Person Specification criterion in turn (numbering them from 1 to 13). The selection panel will be especially interested in Person Specification #2, “Specialist knowledge and skills appropriate to one or more of the five programmes.”

    If you have any queries regarding the vacancy, please contact Dr Ian Warwick; email:

    What we offer

    As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

  • 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
  • Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
  • Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
  • Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
  • Immigration loan
  • Relocation scheme for certain posts
  • On-Site nursery
  • On-site gym
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
  • Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
  • Discounted medical insurance
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