Academic English Support Officer

Job no: 514827
Work type: Fixed term - Part-time
Location: Adelaide
Categories: Various categories

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HEO6 $89,383 - $96,550 per annum plus an employer contribution of 17% superannuation applies.

Part time-0.6 FTE

Fixed term position until 31st Dec 2025

Are you passionate about helping students excel in academic English? Do you thrive in dynamic, student-centered environments? Join the University of Adelaide as an Academic English Support Officer and empower students from around the world to achieve their academic dreams!

About the Role


In this impactful role, you'll be at the forefront of our English Assist Program, designing and delivering essential support services to enhance academic communication skills for international students. From one-on-one support sessions to collaborative workshops, you'll lead the charge in making a real difference in students' lives!

What You'll Do

  • Create effective, pedagogically sound resources to streamline English language programs, ensuring they meet the highest standards.
  • Facilitate engaging sessions, workshops, and resources that cater to the diverse academic literacy needs of our student community.
  • Work closely with academic and administrative teams to ensure seamless program delivery, and guide a small team of casual staff to success.
  • Continuously assess program effectiveness and be a driving force behind strategic improvements, ensuring we meet the evolving needs of students.

 Selection Criteria

  1. Experience coordinating and delivering high-quality English language support programs.
  2. Demonstrated high-level communication skills, including the ability to effectively interact with academic staff, student services, and external partners. Proven ability to adapt communication styles to various audiences and influence outcomes to support academic success for diverse student cohorts.
  3. Knowledge of current English language and learning support approaches, pedagogical practices and the use of software tools to support language and learning development at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Proven ability to develop and implement effective resources and initiatives that reflect the latest academic support strategies for diverse student cohorts.
  4. Demonstrated experience providing training, support, and constructive feedback to ensure high-quality service delivery. Proven ability to foster a positive work environment that promotes teamwork, creativity, and continuous learning.

Qualification/s:

  • Completion of a TESOL qualification without subsequent relevant work experience; or

An equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.

 

Enjoy an outstanding career environment

The University of Adelaide is a uniquely rewarding workplace. The size, breadth and quality of our education and research programs - including significant industry, government and community collaborations - offers you a vast scope and opportunity for a long, fulfilling career.

It also enables us to attract high-calibre people in all facets of our operations, ensuring you will be surrounded by talented colleagues, many world-leading. Our work's cutting-edge nature - not just in your own area, but across virtually the full spectrum of human endeavour - provides a constant source of inspiration.

Our culture is one that welcomes all and embraces diversity consistent with our Staff Values and Behaviour Framework and our Values of integrity, respect, collegiality, excellence and discovery. We firmly believe that our people are our most valuable asset, so we work to grow and diversify the skills, knowledge and capability of all our staff.

We embrace flexibility as a key principle to allow our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal and family life.

In addition, we offer a wide range of attractive staff benefits. These include: salary packaging; flexible work arrangements; high quality professional development programs and activities; and an on-campus health clinic, gym and other fitness facilities. 

Learn more at: adelaide.edu.au/jobs

Your division's broader role

The Division of Academic and Student Engagement drives the University's strategic activities in relation to learning and teaching. This includes ensuring all Adelaide students have a quality experience, and investing in our academic staff's professional development.

Learn more at: adelaide.edu.au/dase/division-leadership

How to apply

Click on the ‘Apply Now’ button to be taken through to the online application form. Please ensure you submit a resume, as well as a cover letter addressing your suitability and experience for the position, referring to the selection criteria, in no more than 2 pages

***Applications close 11:55pm, Sunday 17th November***

The University reserves the right to close this advertisement before the closing date if a suitable candidate is identified.

For further information

For a confidential discussion regarding this position; contact:

Elise Westin
Writing Support Programs Coordinator

Student Academic Skills | Division of Academic and Student Engagement

Mob: +61 4 6693 5223
E: elise.westin@adelaide.edu.au

The University of Adelaide is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. Female applicants, people with a disability and/or and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who meet the requirements of this position are strongly encouraged to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise

 

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