Arden University Hiring for Academic Skills Tutor (International Link) Job at London, England , UK Full Time

Academic Skills Tutor (International Link)

£36,000 pa plus London Weighting of £2,500 plus Excellent Benefits

Based at one of our London Study Centres (Holborn, Tower Hill or Ealing)

The Opportunity: Our Academic Skills Tutors (ASTs) are specialists who support our students at all levels in their studies in the development of key methods and techniques to aid learning. ASTs are key to creating a positive and accessible learning environment and are passionate about supporting students in the development of their academic skills for successful progression and achievement. This is carried out in a variety of ways including on-line support, face to face teaching and 1-1s. They work alongside the Deputy Head of Library Services in the innovative development of academic skills provision for all students, and deliver a high-quality student experience.

This role will have a particular focus on supporting and coordinating academic skills support for students studying with our International Partner Institutions, including supporting our own academic staff with the provision they offer to students.

About You: You will be an academic and must have proven teaching experience in academic skills. You will need excellent digital literacy skills and a clear passion to engender these in our students, as well as possessing understanding, empathy and a kind nature with the ability to support our diverse population of students.

You should be self-motivated, positive, ambitious and organised with a genuine enthusiasm and commitment to delivery of blended and online learning. You will contribute towards the practice of continuous improvement through continuous professional development and sharing of best practice.

About Arden: We pride ourselves on being true innovators, disruptors and pioneers, our focus is to promote life-long learning and ensure that everyone, everywhere can access higher education. As a private University we operate at a faster pace, we are more creative and entrepreneurial, and we are not afraid to take risks. We are small enough to be agile, but with grand plans to make a global impact. We have offices across the UK and in Berlin and in the next five years, you will see us in most continents across the globe, but we need you to help us achieve this. We are also proud to have won the Education Business of the year 2020 – Education Investor!

Why Arden: At Arden, our people work hard to ensure our students journeys are the best they can possibly be, as such we want to reward our people with our wonderful benefits. We want our colleagues to enjoy both their personal and professional life, and we know work-life balance is at the forefront of everyone’s mind, as such we offer the opportunity for our people to explore agile working and offer flexibility in working pattern to accommodate where we can. We know that health and wellbeing are important, and our colleagues benefit from private medical insurance from Vitality along with access to wellbeing support. Our colleagues love the standard 30 days holiday, add the bank holiday on top and we will even throw in Christmas closure, giving you plenty of time to do the things you love! Your future is also important to us, and we want you to be as comfortable as possible in retirement, so we offer a generous pension plan from Aviva.

We want you to grow as the University grows, as such we promote lifelong learning and all our colleagues can study any of our courses for free, we also offer a generous friends and family discount. We believe in the freedom to learn, and each year every colleague can use the Golden Ticket to gift a free Arden education.

Arden’s values: Stand out, Progressive, Accessible, Resourceful, Kindness, reflect who we are as an institution, a team and as individuals. If they also reflect you and you are excited by the chance to be the driving, creative force within a rapidly growing team, we want to hear from you.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines and locations.

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Closing Date – 15 June 2022