Academic English Tutor

Job reference: HUM-028525
Salary: £37,174 to £45,413 per annum dependent on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational unit: Humanities
Location: Oxford Road
Employment type: Fixed Term
Division/Team: University Centre for Academic English
Hours per week: Full Time (1 FTE)
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 22/06/2025
Contract duration: 24 months
School/Directorate: School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

We’re looking for an Academic English Tutor who can and wants to work across our full range of programmes.

Whilst our academic year can be dominated by our very large Pre-sessional, we’re also busy with the University’s ‘in-house’ Foundation programmes, academic language and skills courses for international students on current University degrees, and intensive general English courses for those who have come to us specifically - to name but just three. Our website will give more information on the breadth of our activity and what you would potentially be working on.

With that in mind, when current colleagues were asked what they think you’ll need to like and do well beyond obvious teaching and learning ability – flexibility, recognizing the positives of ‘role variety’ and genuinely being good at time management nearly always came up.

On our side, you’ll be joining a good Centre. Overall we’re more confident than not that we’re heading in the right direction, and externally this seems validated with the British Council rating us as having more areas of strength than any other University Centre, and BALEAP giving us a stellar 2024 report.

But behind this degree of self-assurance are a group of people who know we need to continuously question everything we do – if higher education and language teaching have ever remained constant, they clearly aren’t at the moment – and sector uncertainty is the main reason why this is initially a two-year contract.

Ultimately your ability to do the role as described should hopefully be a given, and there has to be something in the honest way the job advert is written that appeals. We really need to know that whoever joins us will add to the ‘well, we could...’ conversations, and not get bogged down in the ‘well, we can’t’ – and we’ll be looking for that in the process.

And proactively responding to the most frequent question, we would like the qualifications as set out in the person specification and whilst we’re aware that one could argue there are equivalencies to some of them, we’d really prefer you have them close to as we have identified.

In summary - work with us to identify the challenges and help us solve, develop, organize and teach what we come up with. In return we’ll go out of our way to support your development, and we’ll give you as many opportunities as are feasible.

1st round interviews (online): week commencing 07th July 2025

2nd round interviews (in person): Friday 25th July 2025

Teaching a Pre-sessional class (online): Thurs 31st July 2025

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Lisa Jameson

Email: lisa.jameson@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support:

https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.

Please be aware that due to the number of applications we are unfortunately not able to provide individual feedback on your application.

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