English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Coordinator at University of Bristol

Bristol
March 20, 2024

Job Description

The role 

We are looking for an EAP practitioner and leader who is comfortable in any context and leading and developing others to do the same.  You will initially focus on our well-established In-sessional provision but as we aim to rotate coordination roles every 3-5 years, in time you may move to work with colleagues on our pre-sessional or international foundation programme. The vacant Insessional Coordinator role is one of four key leadership roles in the development of the Insessional provision in which you will be responsible for the effective organization, delivery, design, and development of provisions.

You will also line manage a range of individuals in the Centre. This is not a small add-on to the role. We value authentic developmental line management as much as curriculum design and teaching.

What will you be doing? 

You’ll be

  • up close to what is happening across the wider university
  • collaborating with colleagues across disciplines and contexts
  • developing a variety of provisions from discipline specific academic language and literacy to widening participation short courses, to workshops for postgraduate researchers, or to units for study abroad students
  • educating staff through network and relationship building on what we do and more importantly why we do it and why they should be involved. This might also be through delivering workshops to staff
  • leading a team in curriculum design and writing material
  • line managing tutors and subject leads from a range of areas within the Centre

You should apply if 

  • You are not only comfortable, but thrive working:
    • with ambiguity
    • in a variety of contexts
    • with a variety of individuals who have differing levels of awareness, time, and motivation to collaborate
    • autonomously but also within a team
  • You are able to:
    • prioritise your workload and meet competing deadlines
    • look for the creative solution, not the obvious answer
    • make connections, collaborate and maintain those working relationships
    • champion and educate both internally in CALD, externally in the University of Bristol, and within the field of EAP
  • You have:
    • a good knowledge of academic discourse, disciplines, and contexts
    • a desire to develop
  • You value:
    • line management
    • feedback and reflexivity
    • supporting and developing others

If you are excited by what this opportunity offers, please look at the job description attached at the bottom of this page for a full job description and requirements of the role.

Additional information

For informal queries , please contact Lisa Hanson – Lisa.hanson@bristol.ac.uk

This advert will close at 23:59 GMT on Wednesday 10th of April 2024.

Interviews will take place on Tuesday 23rd of April 2024

Our strategy and mission

We recently launched our strategy to 2030 tying together our mission, vision and values.

The University of Bristol aims to be a place where everyone feels able to be themselves and do their best in an inclusive working environment where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential. We want to attract, develop, and retain individuals with different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives – particularly people of colour, LGBT+ and disabled people – because diversity of people and ideas remains integral to our excellence as a global civic institution.

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