Overview
Associate Lecturer
As an Associate Lecturer you will have an integral role to play within the University’s delivery of our courses and in supporting our student’s journey to success.
What can you expect from the role?
- Welcoming students into studying with the University
- Identifying and supporting the student needs to help enable independent study
- Providing academic and correspondence tuition to help develop students and provide assessment feedback which enhances the learning experience
- Be the first point of contact for students
- Champion development and continuous improvement of our courses through sharing feedback
- Taking personal ownership of developing own knowledge and practice
Our Associate Lecturers can either be online-based or provide face to face tuition through our residential school networks.
As an Associate Lecturer, your contracted work activities across the academic year will be reflected as a Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) value. Your FTE is composed of the module delivery activities, as well as including time for development, academic currency and annual leave.
Your working pattern over the year will vary to accommodate student support, tuition and assessment. If your workload decreases, the university will provide additional tasks to maintain your FTE level.
1.0 FTE would be equivalent to 37 hours per week.
How to apply
Click to apply for the role. When you land on the page, you will be able to locate current live vacancies within each faculty on the right-hand side panel box (called “Current AL Vacancies”).
To apply please complete an Application Form and send to AL-Recruitment@open.ac.uk, including the vacancy reference number within the email subject heading.
All candidates will be asked to provide proof of eligibility to work in the UK or ROI, read our guidance for more information.
As an Associate Lecturer you will have:
- a degree or equivalent, or a professional or vocational qualification in the subject area you wish to teach
- an appreciation of how adults learn and an appreciation of study skills
- the ability and willingness to promote the learning of adults through correspondence tuition, telephone and face-to-face tuition and, where appropriate, online tuition
- the ability to use information and communication technology in teaching and supporting students and communicating with other areas of the OU
- the ability to work with students from diverse educational, cultural and work backgrounds
- the ability to work with students with disabilities
- a commitment to student-centred learning
- an understanding of and commitment to equal opportunities policies and practices
- an organised and systematic approach to work
- the potential to work successfully in a team and the potential to work independently
- good written and oral communication skills
- a commitment to personal staff development
- availability and accessibility to students
- ability to travel to designated tutorial venues
All teaching is in English and your proficiency in the English language should be adequate to meet the requirements of the role.
Additional information
All students on Open University modules will have the choice to submit their written assignments, known as Tutor Marked Assignments (TMAs), electronically via the University’s online Assignment platform. You will be required to mark and provide feedback on TMAs submitted electronically and to return the marked work as an electronic file, in the prescribed form, to the online Assignment platform. You may also need to mark paper Assignments.
The exact nature of e-learning facilities and University systems for monitoring student progress and handling Assignments will evolve in future, and you will need to be prepared to adapt accordingly. Please note that, in accordance with usual University policy, tutors will be expected to use their own equipment for all aspects of e-learning.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
