Tutor in Mathematics

**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 2025-26).**

**Fixed term for 1-4 years.**

**Numerous posts.**

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.

- 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.

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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.

- 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.

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.