Academic Skills Consultant (Writing) - Salford

Academic Skills Consultant (Writing) – Salford

Opportunity overview

The Library, Careers and Enterprise at the University of Salford is seeking to recruit an Academic Skills Consultant (Writing) to develop, co-ordinate and deliver an equitable and future-facing writing support service that makes a real difference for our students.

Do you have excellent writing skills with experience of teaching writing and other academic skills? Are you also great at communicating and collaborating across team boundaries to realise strategic priorities? And are you a highly motivated, innovative, and critically reflective practitioner, looking for an opportunity to implement your own ideas and make a measurable impact? If so, then this role could be for you.

We value originality and personal effort in all applications. Therefore, we kindly ask candidates to ensure that their application answers are written by themselves and not generated by AI tools.

Key responsibilities

In this role, you will develop students’ skills by delivering active, inclusive and impactful writing support through workshops, 1:1 tutorials, and digital content. You’ll also contribute to curriculum development and evolve the model for writing support considering University priorities, changing student behaviours and technological advances.

You will need to:

• Extend and enhance the Library’s writing skills provision as part of a holistic skills support offer that prepares students for success in their academic and professional lives.
• Enable students to develop the self-efficacy, confidence, academic resilience, autonomy, and academic skills (e.g. different types of writing, academic practice, critical thinking, Artificial Intelligence literacy) that they need to succeed.
• Contribute to the development, organisation, promotion, and evaluation of effective academic skills provision, which delivers an outstanding student experience and makes a positive impact on students’ timely progression and success.
• Organise and deliver workshops, large-group lectures, bespoke sessions and 1:1 support for students at all levels in both face-to-face and virtual formats, ensuring these are inclusive, active, collaborative, digitally fluent and with real-world relevance.

The Library

This role is based in the Library, Careers & Enterprise – a place to learn and share ideas, a virtual hub for research and discovery, a team of friendly faces delivering excellent customer service, and a community of experts playing a vital role in teaching, learning, research, employability, and enterprise at Salford. We are innovative, open, collaborative, and people centred. Our focus is to help our students get the very most out of their Salford journey, in support of the University’s mission: “Innovating to enrich lives”.

What’s in it for you?

• At Salford you will become part of a passionate and dedicated team who are committed to making education and knowledge more accessible. Our people work hard to ensure our students are the best they can be, and as such, we want to reward our people with fantastic benefits
• Competitive salary – and excellent pension scheme (you may wish to add specific contribution range)
• Generous annual leave – plus the option to buy additional holiday days (you may wish to add specific days)

About your application

Here at the University of Salford we celebrate diversity. As part of a determined approach to build a more diverse workforce and address the current under-representation of colleagues from Black, Asian and minoritized ethnic backgrounds within our team, we welcome and encourage applications from the widest talent pool. So, if you are great at what you do and share our values, we want to hear from you.

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