Postgraduate Teaching Assistant

About us

The Bartlett, Faculty of the Built Environment is one of the oldest but most radical faculties of its kind. It has been ranked #1 in the world for the second year in a row in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024 (Architecture and Built Environment), and remains #1 in the UK for the tenth year running.

Set within The Bartlett Faculty, The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources (BSEER) is comprised of four world-class institutes, providing expert knowledge, collaborative research, and teaching across UCL Energy Institute, UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage, and UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources.

About the role

Please note this is primarily intended as an internal opportunity - only if there is no suitable PhD student at UCL identified would external applications from students at other universities be accepted and considered.

The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources is looking to appoint approximately 70 PGTAs to support education across the department in the 2024-25 academic year. A document outlining all the vacancies that remain available is attached; as part of your application, you will be asked to specify which roles you would like to be considered for.

The purpose of this job is to support and work with the module leads and programme leads on small group teaching and learning across our programmes.

Main duties of PGTAs are tutorial class teaching, regular meetings with the module lead/lecturers, provision of feedback to students, provision of weekly office hours, attendance reporting, coursework assessment, and examination marking.

PGTAs will be given training and ongoing support to assist them in their roles.

About you

You must be a current PhD student (or, exceptionally, a current postgraduate Masters student), either full or part time, at the start of the academic year 2024/2025.

To apply for the vacancy please click on the 'Apply Now' button below.

• A job description and person specification can be accessed at the bottom of this page.
• Please complete the online application form summarising your relevant technical/specialist skills and any previous teaching experience, relating to the specific modules you would like to be considered for.
• If you have any queries about the role or about the application process, or, if you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you in your application, please contact the BSEER HR Team at [email protected].

In the event we receive a high number of applications, we may close the vacancy ahead of the published closing date. As a minimum we will keep all adverts open for 2 weeks. Early application submission is therefore recommended.

What we offer

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more about the benefits on offer.

The UCL Ways of Working supports all staff to be successful and happy at UCL through sharing expectations around how we work – please visit Ways of Working | UCL Human Resources - UCL – University College London to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. Our department holds an Athena SWAN Silver award in recognition of our commitment and demonstrable impact in advancing gender equality.