Job Description

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Grade UE06: £34,610 to £39,906 per annum pro rata

Guaranteed Hours

Fixed Term Contract for duration of programme of study

Multiple Positions Available

We are looking for PhD students to act as Teaching Assistants for an exciting new portfolio of innovative Taught Postgraduate programmes and courses delivered by Edinburgh Futures Institute.

The Opportunity

Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) has developed an ambitious and inventive PGT portfolio. It is highly interdisciplinary, forging new territory in student flexibility through a combination of online and offline teaching via an innovative delivery model that we call ‘fusion’ teaching, and a timetabling model based largely on 2-day intensive blocks of teaching. The portfolio aims to educate students for complex futures in which computational data, critical understanding and creative methods are essential to employability and the ability to take a confident place in the world.

Your Skills And Attributes For Success

• Supporting the Course Organiser with initial classroom configuration / setup.
• Guiding and moderating online / in-class discussions on learning technology platforms by welcoming students, managing breakout sessions, monitoring student questions, and solving basic technical issues, etc.
• Supporting the administration of classes including the support of student tutorials, creating events on learning technology platforms, and starting/stopping session recordings.
• Having sufficient understanding of the topics under discussion in the courses and programmes that you are interested in working on, along with the relevant technical knowledge and skills for those courses and programmes.

Key documents

• CV
• Cover letter

Equality, diversity and inclusion

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK.

The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

Application closing date

The closing date for applications is 28th October 2025.