Staff Tutor in Engineering and Innovation

Terms: Fixed Term Contract to 28 Feb 2027 1.0 x Full-time (part time will be considered)

Change your career, change lives

The Open University is the UK’s largest university, a world leader in flexible part-time education combining a mission to widen access to higher education with research excellence, transforming lives through education.

About The Open University

The role

Since its inception, The Open University (OU) has focussed on innovation in teaching and learning, with a track record of providing, inspiring, world-leading programmes of higher education for students who learn at a distance. 

We aim to appoint inspiring and innovative teachers and scholars who enjoy developing novel approaches to distance teaching and excel at working collaboratively with colleagues.

As a Staff Tutor you will have academic line management responsibility for up to 20 tutors. We are seeking candidates with a strong background in Engineering. The successful candidate will join a team extending our work on transformative approaches to teaching and contribute to the school’s internationally leading research. Some of the work is likely to include managing tutors on apprenticeship schemes.

You will ideally hold a postgraduate qualification in an Engineering discipline or have a degree and substantial experience in an area relating to engineering. You will also have demonstrable knowledge of the skills and experience required to support undergraduate and postgraduate Engineering students and the staff that tutor them. You will also have good organisational and communication skills, and an ability to produce high quality scholarly outputs relevant to your specialist area. 

The School of Engineering and Innovation holds the Athena SWAN Silver Award and is committed to transforming gender equality.

The full summary of duties and person specification can be found within the Job Description on The Open University website.

What you get in return

Benefits include a supportive and friendly working environment, 33 days holiday per annum pro rata plus Bank Holidays and Christmas closure days and an attractive pension proposition.

The Open University is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion which is reflected in our mission to be open to people, places, methods and ideas. We aim to foster a diverse and inclusive environment so that all in our OU community can reach their potential. We recognise that different people bring different perspectives, ideas, knowledge, and culture, and that this difference brings great strength. We strive to recruit, retain and develop the careers of a diverse pool of students and staff, and particularly encourage applications from all underrepresented groups. We also aspire to make the OU a supportive workplace for all through our policies, services and staff networks. our policies, services and staff networks. 

We offer a range of inclusive employment policies which include family and carer friendly flexible working arrangements, and have many supportive staff networks and wellbeing services. We also endorse the principles of Athena SWAN, with commitment from all levels of the organisation in promoting gender equity.

Closing Date :  23 April, 2024 - 12:00