Vacancy Details

Description

Postgraduate Supervisors

 

Post Title: Postgraduate Supervisors

 

Post No: O200

 

Salary Grade: £500 per student (including 10hrs of supervision, 1^st marking of your tutee’s 18,000 dissertation and 2^nd marking of another student’s dissertation)

 

Academic Pathway: Dissertation Supervision

 

School: The Gloucestershire Business School: Strategy, Enterprise, Leadership and Management

 

Base Location: Oxstalls Campus, Gloucester, GL2 9HW

 

FTE: Part-time contract / Fixed Term

 

Job Details

The University of Gloucestershire is looking to appoint Postgraduate level supervisors for our Global MBA, Masters and Apprenticeship programmes within the Gloucestershire Business School, on a part-time contract basis. We would particularly welcome applicants who have expertise in International Business, Management, FinTech, HRM, Operational Management and Productivity and applied work-based research projects.

 

The successful candidates will demonstrate experience and expertise in supervising postgraduate students and it is expected that candidates that be familiar with current developments (business and/or academic research) within their field of practice / study.

 

The majority of the supervision will take place face-to-face, either on campus in person or online (via MS Teams). Supervision will involve acting as a critical friend and supporting students to complete their dissertation. This will involve:

 

·       Reading drafts and giving constructive feedback.

·       Holding up to 6 contact sessions with students, in person or online, to provide a critical review of each chapter of their dissertation.

·       Marking & moderation of student work.

·       Uploading grades and feedback onto the University’s Vle.

 

There are no set working hours designated to this role, although it is expected that supervision meetings will be delivered between Mon – Fri 9am to 5pm (UK time). 

 

Candidates would be expected to take on circa. 10 dissertations, depending on their knowledge, experience and availability.  This role commences in January 2022 and will involve attending an induction session for all supervisors. This is likely to be online in late-Dec 2021 / early-Jan 2022.

 

 

 

The ideal candidates will:

 

·       Be qualified to Master’s Level (Level 7) or equivalent.

·       Have recent and demonstratable experience of supervising postgraduate students with dissertation / research projects.

·       Have experience of supporting students online.

·       Be based in the UK.

 

The Gloucestershire Business School

The Gloucestershire Business School boasts a £20m purpose-built building, which is also home to the Growth Hub, to the Department of Business Engagement (University in Business) and to our growing Business and Law Advice Clinic. This cohabitation with the business community gives our staff and students the opportunity to interact seamlessly, and on a regular basis, working on real life projects that help foster the growth of our students, businesses, and the whole region’s economy.

 

The building, which was officially opened in 2019, offers state of the art facilities, including a Trading Room, a mock courtroom, large and small teaching rooms with cutting edge technology, collaborative learning spaces and a café.

 

Our courses cover areas from accounting, finance, law, strategy, enterprise, leadership, management, marketing, events, hospitality, and tourism management.  Through creative and innovative curriculum development we have achieved an excellent reputation in the design and delivery of apprenticeship programmes across all our subject groups and have ambitions to develop this further. 

 

We have developed an international reputation for our applied research, and we are a leading business school for the quality of our teaching provision - in the 2021 NSS, our overall student satisfaction for this area was in the top quartile in the country.

 

Interested? Please Apply Here

To apply please attach your CV to the online recruitment system.

Submitted CVs will be reviewed regularly and there will be an induction for all those who supervise within the School.

 

For informal inquiries, please contact the following: 

Paul Matthews, MBA Master’s Stage Course Leader – pmatthews4@glos.ac.uk

 

 

Closing Date: 19^th December 2021