Business Tutor

**Business Tutor**

**Location: Edinburgh**

**Type of contract: Permanent, Fixed Term and Sessional**

**Starting Date: 1st December**

**Salary: Competitive**

**Job purpose**

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Business tutor to join our teaching team. Your role will involve teaching and assessing international students to ensure they exceed targets. You will support learners in all aspects of their educational studies using both pre-prepared materials and innovation within your teaching as well as utilising e-learning opportunities where appropriate.

**Main duties and responsibilities**
- Develop and deliver Business modules to international students from a range of linguistic, educational and cultural backgrounds
- Coordination and monitoring of the specific content modules
- Remain sensitive to the expectations of different nationalities whilst encouraging an open and questioning approach to learning that leads students to become independent learners
- Provide academic support for students, as appropriate, through consultations and tutorials, demonstrating a willingness to offer extra advice outside normal class hours
- Develop and maintain an encouraging classroom environment in which accepted rules of behaviour are consistently applied
- Select, prepare and use teaching and learning materials appropriate for international students
- Assess students throughout their modules, regularly creating, providing and marking both formative and summative assessments
- Provide detailed oral and written feedback to students and other stakeholders, for example, the Academic Pathways Manager, and the College Director, as required Ensuring the assessment and monitoring of students’ progress is conducted robustly and regularly and that students receive a high level of detailed and supportive feedback in a timely fashion
- Carry out administrative and record-keeping tasks associated with teaching and assessment (e.g. accurate attendance records, student progress reports, schemes of work, test invigilation)
- Populate the VLE (Blackboard) with relevant materials for students to access and facilitate exemplary module delivery which will include live online classroom sessions.
- Attend and contribute to college meetings and training sessions as required

**Person specification**

**Statutory requirements**
- Eligibility to work and live in the UK
- Appropriate DBS Disclosure

**Qualifications**
- A relevant bachelor’s degree
- A recognised teaching qualification
- Masters degree
- PGCE (with QTS)

**Experience and Knowledge**
- Significant relevant teaching & assessing experience, preferably within a UK further education context
- Recent experience of teaching in a university embedded international college

**Personal Qualities**
- Empathy with international students and an understanding of their needs
- Flexibility & adaptability
- Excellent communication skills, oral & written Commitment to the development of ENUIC
- Experience of teaching international students
- Understanding of the higher education environment
- High level IT skills

**How to apply**

**For more information on Oxford Internationa**l
- Oxford International is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service, as this job involves working with children. This role meets the requirements in respect of exempted questions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974._
- Oxford International is an equal-opportunity employer. Every applicant and employee has the same opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status._

**Job Type**: Zero hours contract

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Business Tutor