Teaching Fellow in Learning Development (Foundation Programme) (024020)

We are seeking to recruit an experienced student Learning Developer to join our new Foundation Programme strands in Psychology and Social Sciences.

The role will play a major part in the development of students as holistic, rounded and well-prepared learners, capable of excelling in their studies at levels 4 and beyond: students informed by a passion for inquiry, who are able to excel as independent learners, who are resilient, adaptive, justifiably confident in their abilities and decision-making, and emotionally intelligent.

The post-holder will be jointly based in the School of Psychology (Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences)’s and the Social Sciences (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)’s foundation programmes, as part of the respective programme teaching teams. They will work closely with programme teaching colleagues in the development, implementation, delivery and review of engaging programmes designed to prepare promising and ambitious learners from a diverse range of backgrounds to excel at degree-level study.

The post-holder will also work with our Learning Development Teaching Fellows in our other foundation programmes (Engineering/Physics, Business/Economics, Biosciences and Nursing) as part of our Learning Development team.

The post-holder will lead in building strong, subject-contextualised and innovative formative learning and assessment opportunities within their foundation strands.

The post-holder will have a passion for student learning development and a commitment to inclusive, student-centred and innovative approaches to curriculum development and delivery (learning, teaching and assessment).

The successful candidates will:

have at least two years’ experience of working as a student learning developer, or related field, in a HE setting; EITHER: be educated to degree level in, OR: have extensive demonstrable experience of learning development work with HE students in: Psychology, plus one (or more) of the following: Sociology, Politics or Law be experienced in working with students from diverse backgrounds/varied prior life and learning experiences.

An ability to cover some maths and statistics learning development activity would be desirable.

Interviews will take place on Tuesday 14 July 2020.

For informal inquiries about the posts, please email Robert Walsha, Head of Learning Development: r.walsha@surrey.ac.uk

Closing Date: 06 Jul 2020
Category: Research & Teaching