University Tutor - Finance (Permanent), School of Business, Maynooth University

Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued. 

The University Tutor plays an important role in the delivery of many of the University’s academic programmes and is appointed for the primary purpose of contributing to teaching within a clear and established teaching programme by providing tuition and/or demonstrations to groups of, usually but not exclusively undergraduate students, in specific aspects of the programme. The University Tutor assists and supports students to further develop their understanding of key course topics and to draw out key learning points from course materials.

This Finance University Tutor is part of a wider team of tutors that will play an important role in supporting the implementation of the School of Business’s strategy to deepen the level of support it provides students in their learning journey, especially implementation of our Living Laboratory approach to learning. You will support the learning, assessment, skills development and industry interaction (through the living laboratory) of both undergraduate and postgraduate students in Finance in conjunction with faculty. You will play a central role in the acquisition and support of external organisations in the operation of the Living Laboratory approach to learning, where students have the opportunity to apply their learning to real world contexts. You will support physical, online, and blended learning. In practice, you will manage the School of Business Bloomberg Lab which is a key resource that the School uses to ensure that Finance graduates are market-ready.

You will be expected to work with faculty, as well as independently, using your education background and experience to support the learning journey of our students. It is especially important that you are able to empathise with the experience of undergraduate business learners with a diverse range of capability and academic fields of interest, in addition to postgraduate learners. You ought to have an interest in, and enthusiasm to, network with external organisations and a capacity to get these to provide content and engagement experiences for our students to work on as part of their modules and projects.

Accounting tutors will work on the process of acquiring engagements for our teaching and learning experiences, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Tutors work with faculty on modules to deliver learning experiences that support students in the attainment of the learning objectives of a module, including project client acquisition, delivery of tutorials, business and career skill development, assessment and provision of student feedback, amongst other interactions.

This is the job for you if

• you have an interest in connecting accounting and student learning together by networking with, engaging and retaining external organisations in our Living Laboratory approach to learning;
• you have an interest in working with business students to develop their practice informed skills and capabilities as critical thinkers;
• you like working with a team of educators;
• you are an effective communicator;
• you are a recent (or soon to be) graduate of a taught masters business programme;
• you have a passion for business education, helping students to develop their conceptual understanding of business and converting this into practice skills and insights.

Please note that this is not a research position. There is no desire for nor expectation that the successful candidate will have or intends to undertake doctoral studies.