The Research Skills and Learning Resources Coordinator
London Academy of Excellence (LAE)
Stratford, Newham, London
- Expired
- Salary:
- Up to £25,000 pro rata depending on qualifications, skills and experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 15 July 2015
Job overview
Permanent (Term time, plus three weeks)
The London Academy of Excellence (LAE) is seeking an able and ambitious graduate to be the Research Skills and Learning Resources Coordinator. The Coordinator has day-to-day responsibility for ensuring that sixthformers develop research skills, that they are guided as they do so (for example, by undertaking the Extended Project Qualification), and that they have access to the necessary learning resources. The Coordinator will also lead and manage LAE’s Library, with responsibility for leading and managing sixthformers’ and teachers’ successful use of the Library.
LAE is committed to preparing its sixthformers not only to make successful applications to Russell Group universities but also to study and learn successfully in a university environment, and thereafter in professional employment. A key part of this preparation will be ensuring that LAE sixthformers learn how to conduct research, consider critically their findings, and then synthesise the information that they have acquired. Through your work as Research Skills and Learning Resources Coordinator, you will be crucial in the sixthformers’ development of these skills.
This is a unique opportunity at an exciting time for LAE. All staff at LAE must have the energy, imagination and ambition to develop a school that, quite simply, changes lives. We seek an educator committed to high academic standards but also one who can communicate to young people a passionate enthusiasm for research.
Reporting to The Assistant Head (Academic)
Hours Normal working hours for this role are 40 hours a weeks from Monday to Friday, 0900-1800. There is a need to be flexible about hours in order to carry out the duties and responsibilities effectively. Evening and weekend working will sometimes be required; no additional payment is made, or time off in lieu given, in this respect.
Child Protection All members of staff must comply with LAE’s Safeguarding & Promoting the Welfare of Children Policy (Child Protection Policy). If in the course of carrying out the duties of the post the post holder becomes aware of any actual or potential risks to the safety and welfare of our sixthformers, these concerns must be reported immediately in accordance with the policy.
Application process
Applications should be submitted to applications@excellencelondon.ac.uk.
Please submit with a covering letter of no more than one side of A4 together with a CV and the LAE application form. Only applications including the LAE Application Form will be considered.
Applications will be considered as they arrive and the deadline for applications is Wednesday 15 July at 9am.
Interviews are likely to take place later in the week beginning 20 July.
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About London Academy of Excellence (LAE)
- London Academy of Excellence (LAE)
- Broadway House, 322 High Street
- London
- E15 1AJ
- United Kingdom
“An inspirational school”
LAE is one of the highest-performing sixth form colleges in the United Kingdom. Our average A level grade is an A* and our ALPS 1 value-added score places us in the top 1% of schools nationally for progress. LAE consistently secures top university destinations for all students. The school is particularly proud of its success helping students from disadvantaged backgrounds to gain places at the finest universities in the UK and around the world. Over 1,200 of our alumni have progressed to a Russell Group university and over 120 to Oxford or Cambridge.
However, academic success if only one aspect of life at LAE. Our links with partner schools, employers and universities are combined with a rich and varied co-curricular offer that encompasses sport, music, arts, volunteering and careers experience. The provision is truly unique and sets LAE apart as an inspirational school.
Successful candidates will be joining an diverse, inclusive, and ambitious school located in the heart of Stratford, close to the Olympic Park and just two minutes from Stratford Station (zone 2/3), with excellent links to all parts of London.
LAE can offer you:
· The opportunity to gain experience of teaching and working with highly motivated students in one of the country’s leading sixth form schools.
· An intellectually stimulating working environment characterised by a culture of professional trust and collegiate working that promotes autonomy, innovation, and rigour.
· Access to an outstanding package of regular, high-quality continuous professional development and support.
· A modern and positive learning environment minutes from the Olympic Park and Stratford Station.
· A package of employee benefits including access to a Cycle Scheme, Tech Scheme, and discounted local gym memberships.
LAE is a diverse and inclusive school, committed to supporting staff and students to be themselves and succeed on merit.
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