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Title | MSc Distance Learning Student Support Officer |
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IMPORTANT: This Advertiser has requested that applicants MUST be National Residents / Valid Work Permit-holders. Other applicants need not apply.
Hours: 40 hours per week. Flexible working required including some evenings and weekend work. Responsible to: Overview Management Group Responsible for: None Status: Full member of CAT management system Salary: £16,653 This post is subject to a 6 month probationary period and will be reviewed after 2 years. Scope: This is an exciting opportunity to establish the student support service of the new Distance Learning course in one of the UK’s largest, most vibrant Master’s programmes. The new MSc Architecture: Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies by Distance Learning, is currently being developed for launch in September 2008. Its curriculum is broadly equivalent to that of the long-established MSc Architecture: AEES, a collaborative programme with the University of East London, in which modules are delivered by student attendance at CAT for five days each month. About this course, the January 2008 external examiner’s report stated: “On the evidence presented to me, the course maintains its reputation as one of the best Masters courses in the environmental field. The staff team is to be congratulated on providing a course which is both rigorous and clearly inspirational.” You will play a vital role in ensuring that, through a pro-active approach to student support and course administration, the quality of the students’ overall experience is as good, and their success as great, as we can make them. Your immediate colleagues will be the DL tutors, and, then also the tutorial, student support and administrative staff of the other MSc courses. You will be working with the DL course’s relational database and the excellent Virtual Learning Environment, ‘UEL Plus’ [based on the Blackboard’ system]. The duties of the Student Support Officer are:- Control of student records
For the appropriate candidate, it is anticipated that opportunities will be given for training and experience in tutorial work. By this we mean acting as a “tutorial assistant” – conducting DL seminars, tutorials and module discussions, all under supervision, and parallel marking with one of the DL tutors. Wider Management:
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