Post Graduate Teaching Assistants (PGTA) - DLL
About us
About UCL Institute of Education
Founded in 1902, UCL Institute of Education has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
The Department of Learning and Leadership (DLL) is a large specialist research and teaching department of approximately 110 academic staff. The department is a major world leader in the following subject areas: Early Years and Primary Education, Educational Leadership, Education Policy, and Initial Teacher Education (ITE). We value innovative research, teaching and enterprise in all these areas and combine the very best of research innovation and evidence-based teaching, with a strong commitment to translating our work into policy and practice.
About the role
The purpose of this job is to support teaching and learning in our undergraduate and graduate programmes in Early Years/primary education, Literacy and Educational Leadership, working with the academic programme, module leads, and tutors through the delivery of small group teaching for students taking modules in the Department of Learning & Leadership (DLL).
Main duties of the post are tutorial class teaching, regular meetings with the module leaders and course tutors, provision of feedback to students, provision of weekly office hours, facilitating workshops, attendance reporting, and coursework assessment.
Teaching Assistants will be given training in support of their roles.
This post is open to UCL students only, who currently reside in the UK and is available until 30 April 2027 in the first instance.
About you
You will be educated to Masters degree level (or having equivalent experience), in an Education related field and be working towards a PhD in an Education related field (on completion of the PhD, you will no longer be eligible to participate in this PGTA scheme).
You will have a high level of literacy and numeracy and excellent working knowledge of MS Office software including Word, Excel, email, the internet, Moodle (or similar VLE).
Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria. It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.
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 (pro rata for part time staff)
- Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme (pro rata for part time staff)
- 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
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.
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About us
About UCL Institute of Education
Founded in 1902, UCL Institute of Education has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
The Department of Learning and Leadership (DLL) is a large specialist research and teaching department of approximately 110 academic staff. The department is a major world leader in the following subject areas: Early Years and Primary Education, Educational Leadership, Education Policy, and Initial Teacher Education (ITE). We value innovative research, teaching and enterprise in all these areas and combine the very best of research innovation and evidence-based teaching, with a strong commitment to translating our work into policy and practice.
About the role
The purpose of this job is to support teaching and learning in our undergraduate and graduate programmes in Early Years/primary education, Literacy and Educational Leadership, working with the academic programme, module leads, and tutors through the delivery of small group teaching for students taking modules in the Department of Learning & Leadership (DLL).
Main duties of the post are tutorial class teaching, regular meetings with the module leaders and course tutors, provision of feedback to students, provision of weekly office hours, facilitating workshops, attendance reporting, and coursework assessment.
Teaching Assistants will be given training in support of their roles.
This post is open to UCL students only, who currently reside in the UK and is available until 30 April 2027 in the first instance.
About you
You will be educated to Masters degree level (or having equivalent experience), in an Education related field and be working towards a PhD in an Education related field (on completion of the PhD, you will no longer be eligible to participate in this PGTA scheme).
You will have a high level of literacy and numeracy and excellent working knowledge of MS Office software including Word, Excel, email, the internet, Moodle (or similar VLE).
Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria. It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.
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 (pro rata for part time staff)
- Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme (pro rata for part time staff)
- 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
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.
