Graduate Writing Instructor 1

Date Posted: 03/21/2024
Req ID: 36614
Faculty/Division: Centre for Teaching and Learning
Department: UTSC:Ctr-Teaching & Learning
Campus: University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)

Description:

Nature of Assignment:

CTL Graduate Writing Support offers skilled, supportive writing instruction designed to foster student skills and confidence in order to enable all students to reach their full potential. Our approach to writing instruction is informed by our understanding of writing as a complex ability that is continuously learned and relearned in relation to changing contexts and purposes. We are committed to creating an inclusive teaching and learning environment, and to principles and practices that foster equity and diversity.

Please note that application requirements for each posting is listed under the “Duties” section.

Job Title: CTL Graduate Writing Instructor

Number of Positions: One

Size of Appointment (hours): 125 hours

Session: Summer 2024

Minimum Qualifications:

• A recently completed PhD degree is a requirement for this position.
• Experience planning, organizing and tracking workshops or small-group events is required.
• Experience with one-to-one writing instruction, and a scholarly approach to one-to-one writing instruction, including familiarity with best practices, are required.
• Experience teaching academic writing in courses or workshops is required.
• Experience teaching graduate students is required.
• Experience with writing groups, either as a facilitator or as a participant, is required.
• An academic background in Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, or Social Sciences–or relevant experience working extensively with upper-level undergraduate or graduate student writing in these fields is required

• Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience and training in working with diverse students, including experience and training in second-language instruction at the university level, are assets.
• Experience in teaching writing online, particularly in a synchronous teaching context, is an asset.
• The successful candidate will have the ability to collaborate with writing instructors, faculty, and program staff to develop instructional materials and workshops while maintaining constructive relationships.
• They will also have a demonstrated commitment to fostering equity, diversity and inclusion.

CTL’s Graduate Writing Support program favours applicants with a long-term interest in the three main aspects of the position: providing writing instruction for graduate students (especially in STEM or Social Science fields), facilitating group writing events, and developing/implementing workshops on writing-related topics.

Description of duties:

• organize, plan, and facilitate Just Writes, weekly in-person, group writing events that offer a congenial, distraction-free space for writing and the social support of other graduate students. During Just Writes, the instructor will open and close events, facilate informal goal-setting and check-ins, answer questions, and meet with participants one-to-one on an as-needed basis.
• offer individual online and face-to-face consultations that can address any type of graduate student writing, from course papers to job application materials to research proposals, thesis chapters and papers for publication
• on request from graduate course instructors or departments, develop and present (or co-present) customized workshops on specific aspects of writing and communication for graduate students, including
• develop or compile instructional materials related to graduate student writing
• build relationships with departments, administrators in UTSC graduate departments—DPES, Psychology, Management (MAccFin)
• Liaise with Vice-Dean Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
• Track attendance at Just Write and 1:1; compile a short report at the end of each term or contract describing work done.

The instructor will work independently and in communication with the Coordinator of CTL Writing Support and with campus partners providing graduate programming.

For Summer 2024, one-to-one instruction may be on-campus or online, depending on student and instructor availability. We anticipate that all Just Writes will be held on campus. Workshops may be on-campus or online, depending on the needs of the unit requesting the workshop. Instructors should have access to a stable, high-speed internet line, a computer with a working webcam and microphone and a quiet workspace.

Appointment Dates: May 1 to August 30, 2024

Apply here: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/webapps/cupehiring/dept/ctl/app/wi

(Only applications received on the above website will be considered.) 

Please upload the following Application Requirements:

1. Cover Letter

2. Curriculum Vitae or Resume

3. CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Application Form (available online at https://uoft.me/CUPE-3902-Unit-3-Application-Form)

4. Sample of instructional materials developed

5. Short Writing Sample (maximum four pages)

6. Names and contact information of three references

TA Support

N/A

Closing Date: 04/12/2024, 11:59PM EDT
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Salary:

Writing Instructor I: $53.41 + vacation pay

Writing Instructor I-Long Term: $56.07 + vacation pay

Writing Instructor II: $57.42 + vacation pay

Writing Instructor II-Long Term: $58.58 + vacation pay

Writing Instructor II-Priority: $59.11 + vacation pay

Writing Instructor II-Priority Long Term: $60.29 + vacation pay

The Centre for Teaching and Learning reserves the right to make partial appointments.

This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.

Preference in hiring shall be given to persons holding the rank of Writing Instructor 2  and Writing Instructor 2 (Priority) who have been advanced to that status in the hiring Writing Centre (or, if advanced in another Writing Centre, who have additionally been employed for the required minimum number of hours in the hiring Writing Centre) in accordance with Article 16:11 of the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 collective agreement.

Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 collective agreement rather than the Unit 3 collective agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 collective agreement.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.