Graduate Teaching Fellow

FTE: 1.0 FTE (37 working hours per week)

Duration of Contract: Fixed Term of three years from start date

Annual Leave: 35 days plus standard public holidays and an additional 4 days including the closure of our office between Christmas and New Year.

Location: College Lane Campus

The department has an international reputation for teaching and research, with nearly 90 academic staff, divided into five academic subject groups. In addition, we support 150 adjunct staff, and 70 research students and postdoctoral research staff.

Main duties and responsibilities

The Graduate Teaching Fellow in Computer Science will play an important role as part of a team incorporating the Head of Department or Subject Group Leader, programme leader, module leaders, the professional, administrative and technical staff (if applicable), the Dean of School and the Associate Deans of School. You will be expected to contribute to teaching in Computer Science with a specific emphasis on:

• Production of accessible and usable interfaces (Web, Mobile, Augmented Reality)
• Evaluation of interfaces for accessibility and usability
• Analysis of technologies in terms of their ethical, legal and professional dimensions.

The Graduate Teaching Fellow in Computer Science will contribute to teaching, learning and assessment. This will include assisting with the marking of assessments. You will be expected to attend the Module Boards of Examiners if applicable, and attend, and contribute to, Programme Academic Experience Group meetings Programme Team Meetings and other subject group meetings and working groups as required.

The Graduate Teaching Fellow in Computer Science will also support pastoral, academic support and engagement activities for home and international students within the department. 

Skills and experience required

You will possess excellent written and verbal communication skills and may have relevant teaching experience at HE level. You will possess sufficient breadth or depth of specialist knowledge in the discipline to work within established teaching programmes and have an appreciation of the educational needs of students.

You will have excellent organisation, planning and IT skills and the ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team. The ability to communicate effectively, clearly and supportively with both students and academic colleagues and the ability to deal with conflicting demands and priorities is essential.

Qualifications required

You will be educated with a minimum of a good honour’s degree or equivalent level qualification in the discipline or a related discipline or equivalent experience

Please view the job description and person specification for a full list of the duties and essential criteria, please click the 'Apply' button above. Please attach a personal statement showing clearly how your skills and experience match the essential requirements of the Person Specification.

Internal applicants – please ensure you apply via your employee self-service portal.

An appointment to this role may require an Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) certificate.

We regret that we are unable to offer UKVI sponsorship for this post; applicants will either hold UK Right to Work or demonstrate access to UK Right to Work before an offer is made.

Contact Details/Informal Enquiries: Dr Simon Trainis, Head of Department of Computer Science S.A.Trainis@herts.ac.uk

Closing Date: 10 June 2026

Interview Date: TBC

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