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Programme Assistant For The BA In English Language And Linguistics
Job Description
This position involves working as a Programme Assistant for the BA in English Language and Linguistics for a period of four months. The assistant will work directly with the BA Director, Dr. Eloi Puig-Mayenco, alongside two other Programme Assistants supporting the MA in Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching and the MA in International Child?s Rights.
Key Responsibilities
The primary duties of the Programme Assistant include:
Assisting in the development of a report on the current state of the BA, focusing on recruitment, admissions, and engagement from current students and alumni.
Supporting the organization of English Language and Linguistics Day, an on-campus event in May aimed at A-level students.
Work Arrangement
This is a hybrid position, allowing the assistant to complete most tasks remotely. However, some on-campus meetings and responsibilities will be required.
Time Allocation
The allocated hours for each task are as follows:
3 hours ? Training and meetings
10 hours ? Distributing a survey, analyzing data, and preparing a report
5 hours ? Examining Power BI and compiling a report on the BA?s key competitors
10 hours ? Organizing and running a focus group, analyzing findings, and preparing a report
2 hour ? Reviewing the Student Hub for the BA
10 hours ? Creating written and visual content for social media
The Programme Assistant will receive comprehensive training and mentoring to successfully carry out these responsibilities.
Qualifications
Current student in BA English Language and Linguistics
Skills
Essential:
Familiarity and ability to use Microsoft packages (e.g., good Excel command)
Current undergraduate student in the BA English Language & Linguistics
Experience writing up reports
Good organisational skills
Social awareness and good communication skills
Desirable:
Interest in Linguistics
Interest in marketing, communication and event organization
Experience with descriptive statistics
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Job Description:
London Met's Communications Team is looking for talented student writers and content creators to contribute to our website and communications. This is a great opportunity to gain experience in journalism, content writing, and digital media while getting paid for your work.
Key Responsibilities:
- Write engaging news stories about university events, research, and student life
- Conduct interviews with staff, students, and alumni
- Attend events and produce written summaries
- Create video content for social media (if applicable)
- Assist in developing expert opinion pieces with academics
Who We're Looking For:
- Strong writing skills and an eye for storytelling
- Ability to write in a clear, engaging, and accurate style
- Interest in journalism, communications, or digital media
- Reliable and able to meet deadlines
- Basic video editing skills (desirable but not essential)
Qualifications
N/a
Skills
This is for. journalism students
Wildfires are almost inevitably portrayed as disasters, ignited through carelessness or arson with a massive impact on people?s lives, fauna and flora, and the global carbon budget. Yet recent research, including by the ?Just Fires? group of the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society (e.g. Smith et al., 2024), highlights the important role of traditional fire management in supporting people?s livelihoods and creating a patchy biodiverse landscape which mitigates against unintentional and disastrous fires. The project aims to explore the framing of landscape fire in international conventions and agreements as a first step to understanding how these affect national- and local-level fire governance. The study will focus on key international policy frameworks, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and other relevant agreements, to analyse how fire is positioned in relation to climate, biodiversity, and land use governance. This will be achieved by:
The successful applicant will contribute to this study by:
Depending on the outcomes of the research, there may be an opportunity to contribute to a publication on international fire policy. The successful applicant will join the Leverhulme Wildfires Centre and be supervised by Professor Kate Schreckenberg (Geography, KCL) and Dr Will Hayes (Geography, RHUL). The total number of hours for this job = 100 hours |
Qualifications
Master-level quealification in Geography, Political Science, Natural Resource, Governance and related subjects.
Applicants should provide a 2-page CV and a cover letter explaining how they meet the essential and desirable skills.
Skills
Essential skills:
- Ability to undertake independent research
- Experience of carrying out a literature review
- Use of NVivo, Excel or other software for thematic
- Good writing skills in English
Desirable skills:
- Experience of policy analysis
- Interest in and work on wildfires
- Interest in climate change, land use and conservation policy
- Collaborative research
- Familiarity with international environmental agreements
To start as soon as possible.
Full-time role up until 31st July 2025
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
The role will include all or some of the tasks:
- Build and maintain beneficial relationships with local organisations and University departments to support students to develop their employability.
- Create attractive advertisements to promote vacancies.
- Create and update databases and software platform with accurate information.
- Creating an appearing in short videos to provide guidance to students and graduates on how to enhance their employability
- Write professional emails to students, staff and employers
- Utilise Microsoft Office applications include Word, Excel and Powerpoint
- Manage aspects of administration within WebLearn, (Virtual Learning Environment).
- Attending classes to undertake very brief presentations on work placement modules.
- Provide initial recruitment support via signposting to online Careers materials to assist students through job recruitment processes and identify when to signpost applicants to advice and guidance from Careers Consultants.
- Assist in matching students to suitable placement opportunities.
- Assist in undertaking risk assessments for work placement health and safety.
- Assist in organising events such as 'LinkedIn Headshot' photoshoots, including greeting students, recording student details, potentially assisting in taking photographs and sending out photographs to students.
- Any other tasks to support the Graduate Success team.
NOTE: In terms of your graduation date, you must have submitted your final assessment within 2024
Closing Date: Friday 14th Feb at 5pm
In addition to clicking Apply Now, please ensure that you send your comprehensive CV and a covering letter outlining your suitability for the role to Tahera at t.huda@londonmet.ac.uk.
Please note that the role entails a hybrid work arrangement. The successful candidate is expected to be present in the office once or twice and sometimes several times a week, and to work remotely for the rest of the week.
A formal probationary assessment will be conducted at the three-month mark to review the performance in the role.
We appreciate your attention to these requirements and encourage you to apply if you fulfill the stated criteria.
Qualifications
Before you proceed with your application, we would like to outline specific eligibility criteria that must be met to be considered for this role:
Eligibility to Work Full-Time in the UK: We welcome applications exclusively from candidates who hold the legal authorisation to work full-time in the United Kingdom for at least the next 10 months. Regrettably, we are unable to sponsor work visas or consider candidates whose current visa status does not permit full-time employment for the specified duration.
You must be a recent Undergraduate of London Met: Your final piece of assessment for your degree must have been submitted within 2024. Applications from candidates who graduated before this date will not be considered for the position.
We kindly request all prospective applicants to carefully review and confirm that they meet these essential eligibility requirements before submitting their applications.
Skills
No Qualifications required for this role.
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