Remotely
Tutor
at The Open College of the Arts
The Open College of the Arts (OCA) is recruiting a tutor to provide academic support and assessment for the students of the interior design undergraduate degree programme.
BA (Hons) Interior Design introduces students to the fundamentals of interior spatial design. Through a wide range of knowledge and skills-based activities and research and analysis of existing architecture, students discover how to create exciting interiors and enhance an occupants’ spatial experience. Students are also taught how to apply these skills within the broad spectrum of professional spatial design practice.
OCA is a leading provider of flexible, open creative arts courses, a thriving educational charity and part of The Open University. The Open University is a world leader in distance education and shares with OCA a common heritage of being founded by Michael Young. With The Open University, the OCA will be exploring a shared mission of open access and widening participation, providing access to high-quality higher education to all through distance learning.
OCA tutors primarily support individual students by providing a variety of formative feedback and being involved in digital assessment events. There are also opportunities to run online group work or study event activities or get involved in the learning design of course units with programme leaders. The role can be fulfilled at a distance and flexibly, to fit around other commitments. There is a minimum level of tutoring expected, which can be increased depending on the availability of student numbers. Support for the role is provided through tutor team meetings and other training opportunities.
We are looking for creative practitioners, with some experience of working within higher education or who can demonstrate other forms of teaching or mentoring. Previous course development experience would be desirable. We are interested in hearing from tutors who share and can support, OCA’s charitable purpose of widening access to the arts and open access values.
Please apply by completing the application form provided on the vacancy page of the OCA website, and returning it via the apply for job button below. Please note, we do not accept CVs. Applicants must follow the link to OCA’s website to complete an application form.
The closing date for applications is midnight Tuesday 15 August 2023.
Once a shortlist has been selected, we will arrange online interviews from August 2023. Unfortunately, we cannot always respond to unsuccessful applicants at the shortlisting stage.