Teaching Associate (2 positions available)

What will you be doing?

• Play an active role in delivering high-quality, innovative teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate programs.
• Supervise and assess research projects, provide personal tutoring, and contribute to lectures, laboratories, and problem classes.
• Be responsible for teaching at levels appropriate to your specialism and may help to organize such teaching.
• Your teaching will primarily be on classes prepared by other members of staff, but there may be some opportunity to contribute to the preparation and development of classes.
• Develop your competence in teaching and/or clinical/professional work over a variety of courses and settings.
• Plan your own activity, make a contribution to teaching, and participate in course development discussions.
• Act as a tutor to undergraduate and, where relevant, taught postgraduate students.

Requirements

• A PhD in Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a closely related discipline, or equivalent research experience in an academic, industrial, or clinical setting.
• Significant experience of teaching in higher education.
• Significant experience in liaising with a wide range of stakeholders and demonstrating leadership in planning and delivering a large project.
• Ability to teach appropriately in various ways at various levels and to communicate clearly material of a specialist or highly technical nature.
• Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and students.
• Ability to organize your own time and work, to meet deadlines, and manage competing priorities.
• Demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills.

About the role

The Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Bristol is seeking to appoint a Teaching Associate in the School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology (SEMT). This post is within our teaching pathway and so the focus of the post is delivering teaching and the associated administration. The post is funded for a fixed term period until 30th Sept 2027. The successful applicant will have teaching and admin responsibilities that focus on our Year 1 undergraduate teaching. We are particularly interested in applicants who can contribute to our teaching in Financial Technology. Alternatively an ability to contribute to our teaching in Artificial Intelligence or other degree programmes hosted by the school is of interest. Applicants should make it clear in their covering letter which degree programmes they could teach.

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and particularly welcome applications from women, people from minoritised ethnic backgrounds, and other groups currently under-represented in engineering. Flexible and part-time working arrangements can be discussed.

Benefits

Flexible and part-time working arrangements can be discussed.

Pay

£39,906- £44,746 per annum

Schedule

Full time