About this role
About the Role The School of Engineering and Materials Science is offering appointments for graduates with a Mechanical Engineering background to assist with undergraduate teaching activities. The Teaching Associate team supports the academic staff in the delivery of high-quality education, provides support in the classroom and the laboratory, and is involved in student tutoring, assessment of coursework, and facilitating key skills and problem-based learning activities. The post holders will also be involved in the School’s Outreach activities. This is a valuable opportunity to obtain a wide range of teaching experience.
The applicant is expected to be on campus to support teaching activities in line with the timetable.
About You You will have or will be working towards a postgraduate degree and/or relevant professional qualification and/or equivalent professional experience. You will have knowledge of subject at undergraduate and postgraduate level and the ability to present specialist material in a logical, coherent and interesting manner, both to students and to fellow specialists.
About the School This post is within the School of Engineering and Materials Science, a large School with 108 academics, more than 200 PhD students and over 1600 undergraduate students. It is one of five schools in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Queen Mary University of London. These are supported by an administrative and technical staff team of around 50. The staff and student body are international in make-up.
About Queen Mary At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.
We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
Benefits We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.
Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.