Staff Tutor in Photography

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Weekly Working Hours: 37 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. Find out more about us and our mission by watching this short video (you will be taken to YouTube by clicking this link). About the Role This is an exciting opportunity to join The Open University as a Staff Tutor in Photography in the School of Creative Industries . We are looking for a dedicated individual to join a team developing innovative and vocational online learning resources in Photography. As an academic member of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the School of Creative Industries, you will have a key role in keeping the OU in the forefront of supported distance higher education, particularly in designing and facilitating effective teaching of the School's modules, qualifications and programmes. You will also contribute to the academic life of the Discipline through your scholarship and/or research. As a Staff Tutor you will be responsible for the selection, monitoring and staff development of part-time Associate Lecturers (ALs), who will teach across our theoretical and practical creative modules in our forthcoming BA (Hons) Photography. For this full-time role, we are particularly interested in experience of line management and curriculum development. The post is designated as a homeworker, however some travel to Milton Keynes, and other locations in the UK, will be required. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) FASS is the largest and most diverse faculty at The Open University, with some 50,000 students studying our modules with excellent completion rates and consistently outstanding student satisfaction ratings. Noted for the strength of our interdisciplinary approaches, our researchers and scholars of international standing, teach and research a very wide range of topics and themes in specific subject areas, recognised as world class or internationally excellent in the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) in 2021, and having a direct and profound influence on our undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. FASS is organised into four schools: School of Arts and Humanities School of Creative Industries School of Psychology & Counselling School of Social Sciences and Global Studies Students are supported by Student Support Teams. These teams offer specialist study support to students undertaking qualifications across the University. Members of academic staff, including academics based in all four nations of the UK, form part of these teams in sustaining and improving student progression and retention. The Faculty works closely with major and influential organisations and institutions in the UK (most notably the BBC) and other parts of the world in a range of validated partnerships and collaborations, and is engaged in world-class, agenda-setting research tackling the most difficult challenges facing us in the 21st Century, with work in numerous subject-based and interdisciplinary research groups and projects. With around 1800 members of staff, comprising academics, associate lecturers, support staff and full-time research students, working across the locations of the University, and combining originality and innovation in research and curriculum, FASS is a vibrant and exciting place to study and work. To find out more about the Faculty's teaching, learning and research, please visit: http://fass.open.ac.uk/ Key Responsibilities The person appointed will be expected to contribute in the following ways: act on behalf of the School of Creative Industries in the recruitment and appointment of ALs. ALs are responsible for grading and commenting on students' written assignments and offering support and guidance for students through blended learning provision including face-to-face day schools, synchronous online tutorials, asynchronous online forums and individual correspondence, telephone and e-mail. provide line-management of ALs including career development and performance management, maintaining their currency of knowledge on curriculum development, student progression pathways and teaching methods, and facilitating two-way communications with the school and academics working centrally on module teams. organise and implement an appropriate staff development programme, i.e. to train, supervise and support the work of ALs, encompassing face-to-face, online and correspondence tuition, telephone and other electronic support methods and to monitor their feedback on students' assignments. provide a link between Associate Lecturer Services, the Student Support Team and the School. This includes liaising with Associate Lecturer Services about its work with ALs when necessary, e.g. recruitment, timetabling, as well as with other academic services staff in the SST on the progress of individual students as appr

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