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Personal Tutor, School of Business and Technology

Employer
BPP EDUCATION GROUP
Location
London, United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
18 Sep 2019

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Academic Discipline
Business & Economics, Accounting & Finance
Job Type
Academic Posts, Tutors
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

Location: London Shepherds Bush
Closing date: Not specified
Salary: Competitive
Employment type: Permanent
Department: School of Business & Technology

About BPP

Our experience in building careers spans over 40 years. We believe in progress for everyone. For learners who want to develop, and the business partners that strive for growth. We work closely with employers and professional bodies to make our learning as real world, relevant and future facing as possible. We do it for the biggest names and we do it in specialist areas. That includes law, accountancy, financial services, nursing, technology and more. And it covers a range of qualifications to develop careers at every stage and every level of development. We educate over 80,000 students annually, working with 7000 businesses across 170 countries. Our expertise covers learning for a number of different levels. They include apprenticeships, university courses, professional qualifications and professional development.

About The School of Business and Technology

BPP’s School of Business and Technology delivers programmes in undergraduate, postgraduate, apprenticeship and professional qualifications specialising in accountancy and finance, management and technology. We are proud to teach students from blue chip employers and individual high calibre students from all over the world. We have a number of unique programmes, poised for significant growth. We have teaching centres in London, Birmingham and Manchester and also teach many programmes online. Our new technology faculty experts provide us with an opportunity to design cutting edge accounting and management programmes to meet the rapidly changing needs of these professions.

Job Purpose

The BPP School of Business and Technology is recruiting for a Personal Tutor to operate across the whole School, who specialises in the field of Student (Learner) Support to implement and maintain the School’s Retention Programme.  We are looking for a highly motivated, practitioner experienced tutor to bring high quality learner support into the School.

Specifically, we are seeking candidates who hold relevant professional qualifications and have relevant practitioner experience and are able to provide the following services:

  • Learner support
  • Development of support materials
  • Implementation of support services
  • Tracking/monitoring success rates of support

The role of faculty in the School is to ensure that learners in the School receive a premium experience. This is achieved via delivery of the highest quality tuition and module leadership.

Faculty will undertake a variety of duties including, but not restricted to, personal tuition, project supervision, managing online cohorts, undertaking scholarship work and teaching (which will be a combination of live, on line via the Adobe Connect platform and face to face delivery). Faculty are expected to assist with recruitment of learners at open days as well as having involvement in ad hoc business development activities.

Full Description

  • Providing students with excellent customer service and issue resolutions
  • Guidance on academic requests (deferrals, IOS et)
  • Provide support to students following examination results release around progression, completion and withdrawal
  • Actively encourage students engagement with their programmes using resources available
  • Provide academic and pastoral support to students in accordance with the University Personal Tutoring policy
  • Leaning support rep
  • Review at risk list and meet with students deemed at risk
  • Conduct regular surgeries for students
  • Feedback received on work
  • Study skills
  • Option choices
  • Information about your course
  • Providing references
  • Other activities as and when required by the school
  • To assist individual learners with both formative and summative assessments as part of their undergraduate or graduate studies
  • To provide learners with one-to-one sessions on a variety of academic areas such as referencing and research skills
  • To liaise with Programme Support Officers and the Assessment Team, identifying learners at risk of failing
  • Formulating personalised study plans for learners identified as ‘at risk’
  • Become familiar with an overview of module contents at the school, as well as the relevant assessments and marking criteria, in order to better focus support sessions
  • Develop and deliver high quality and consistent support materials including detailed study plans bespoke for individual learners or groups of learners.
  • Undertake scholarship activities and contribute to the research base within the School. Raise the profile of the School through attendance at conferences and externally published scholarship and research
  • Providing academic support for commercial and business development activities within the School. Ad hoc provision of client liaison and support as required
  • Any other duties appropriate to the grade and nature of the post

For the role requirements please refer to the full job description

PT July 19  

Company

When you work with BPP, you will be part of a business that really believes in supporting your personal and professional development. With so many different business areas, we offer a wide range of exciting opportunities across the UK and abroad – from teaching to marketing to business development to human resources to name only a few. But what really makes working at BPP rewarding, is the culture of encouragement, respect and teamwork.

Company info
Location
BPP HOUSE
ALDINE PLACE
142-144 UXBRIDGE ROAD
SHEPHERD'S BUSH
LONDON
W12 8AW
GB

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