Student Support Officer, Distance Learning (MSc Architecture: AEES by D/L)

About the job

This is an exciting opportunity to work with the student support service of the Distance Learning course in one of the UK’s largest, most vibrant Master’s programmes. The  MSc Architecture: Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies by Distance Learning, is continually being developed, following its 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 2 fulltime Student Support Officers, the DL tutors, and, more widely, the tutorial and student support 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 ethos of the course, and of the team running it, combines the traditional ethos of high academic standards with that of CAT: respectfulness, openness, and solidarity.

Full job description and person specification available at www.cat.org.uk/jobs

Closing date 24/6/11