Tutor in Mathematics

Job Description

UE06: £34,610.00 to £39,906.00 per annum, pro rata.

College of Science & Engineering / School of Mathematics.

Guaranteed Hours Contract (minimum of 20 hours in academic year

Fixed term for 1-4 years.

Numerous posts.

Applications are invited for tutors within the School of Mathematics. Candidates will be offered a guaranteed minimum offer of hours and these roles require in person attendance on campus. These posts are only available to those who will be current PhD students within the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh in January 2026.

In this role you will facilitate the provision of small group workshop-style sessions, while also supporting a range of other elements of teaching and technical demonstrator support such as marking assessments and providing feedback. You will have excellent communication skills, the capability to facilitate and lead student groups, and other relevant teaching skills.

The School of Mathematics has a well-developed and exciting portfolio of programmes operating across the mathematical sciences and at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The portfolio aims to educate students in mathematics and essential skills in critical thinking and data analysis, which are critical to employability for our graduates.

A full list of courses can be found by following the following link:

List of Mathematics courses

Typically, we require more tutors for our pre-Honours (year 1 and 2) courses, and so role holders should expect to be involved in provision in those courses. We also have particular needs in courses in data science, programming, statistics and probability.

You can view further information on the School of Mathematics website by clicking here.

Candidates will have a sufficient understanding of the topics under discussion in the courses and programmes that they are interested in working on, along with the relevant technical knowledge and skills for those courses and programmes.

As well as being a PhD student within the School of Mathematics, the successful candidates should also be able to demonstrate the skills required to facilitate workshop provision within the School of Mathematics (relevant training will be provided). This may include:

• Working directly tutoring students in small group settings and one-to-one, helping them with course materials and questions.
• Guiding and moderating online / in-class discussions on learning technology platforms by monitoring student questions, etc.
• Supporting the tutoring of programming and computing in classes where students use either Python, R or another of the computing languages in use in the School.
• Marking weekly hand-in work, student quizzes, assisting in exam marking or other assessment marking as appropriate.
• Supporting the administration of classes including the support of student workshops, creating events on learning technology platforms, and starting/stopping session recordings as might be appropriate for particular classes.

Click here for a copy of the full job description.

Please note, the job duties and responsibilities listed in the job description are intended to describe the general nature of the role which may be undertaken by post-holders. The duties and responsibilities, and balance between the elements of the post, may change or vary over time, or on courses assigned depending on the specific needs of the role.

The roles will require attendance on-campus in Edinburgh. The posts are available from January 2026.

Informal enquiries can be made by contacting Chris Jowett via

If you did not complete our online tutor survey for Semester 2 (which ran in October 2025) please include a brief covering letter with your application. The covering letter should:

• state which courses and areas of mathematics you are most interested in working on.
• comment on your proficiency with the following software packages SAGE, MATLAB, C++ or C#, Python, Maple, R.
• state your ideal number of hours to be worked in each semester.

If you are not sure whether you completed the online survey please email for confirmation.

As a valued member of our team, you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality. For information about the School of Mathematics' commitment to EDI, you can visit our webpage:

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion | School of Mathematics

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

About Us

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow's greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

About the Team

The School of Mathematics

The University of Edinburgh's School of Mathematics is one of the world's leading mathematical sciences departments, home to world-class researchers and to an innovative educational environment for both undergraduates and postgraduates. We are proud to have a highly international faculty and students from around the world. As a School we value both the breadth and depth of our research and teaching.

We have around 110 permanent faculty and around 45 research fellows and research associates, who cover a broad range of research topics in pure and applied mathematics, operational research and statistics. The School has an enviable record of attracting prestigious fellowships and currently hosts, for instance, 6 ERC grant holders and 7 Royal Society University Research and Dorothy Hodgkin Fellows. In the 2023 Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects we are ranked 18th among the world's best Mathematics departments. Together with the Departments of Mathematics and Actuarial Mathematics & Statistics at Heriot-Watt University, we form the Maxwell Institute; our joint submission to REF2021was ranked 3rd in the UK for Mathematical Sciences by research power, based on the quality and breadth of our combined research.

The School delivers a world-leading educational experience for its students and is constantly exploring new evidence-based ideas in mathematical education in order to provide a stimulating learning environment. There are excellent possibilities for imaginative curriculum development, including online activities, and course design and delivery. The School teaches pure and applied Mathematics, operational research and statistics. We have approximately 1000 undergraduate students, around 210 MSc students, and our Graduate School has close to 160 PhD students.

Edinburgh is home to the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, one of the UK's two major conference centres in the mathematical sciences and operated jointly by the University with Heriot-Watt University. Over the past 30 years the centre has established a superb reputation for hosting workshops at the highest scientific level on all mathematical topics, attracting many of the best mathematicians in the world to the UK.

The School is located in the James Clerk Maxwell Building which is situated on the King's Buildings campus, approximately 3 kilometres south of the city centre.

Further information about the School, our research and our teaching is available on the School of Mathematics Website ) (Opens in new browser tab)

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