Sessional Zoo Academy Regional Centre Co-ordinator
Sparsholt College
Hampshire
- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 9 March 2020
Job overview
£23.24 per hour (including multiplier, admin time and holiday pay)
You will assist Sparsholt College with the organisation and delivery of the Diploma in the Management of Zoo and Aquarium Animals and Volunteer Programme courses.
This will include the following key duties:
• Being the supportive and responsive point of contact for students in the region.
• Conducting face to face and remote tutorials for students in the region.
This involves travel to 20+ collections across the region.
• Conducting one tutorial per term, per student in the region, as a minimum to provide suitable guidance and support.
• Recording student tutorials and progress on the college electronic systems (a laptop is provided).
• Responding to student enquiries and need for support.
• Communicating effectively with the Curriculum Leader for Zoo Animal Studies regarding student progress and grade tracking.
• Carrying out communication between students and Assessors in the region.
• Operating ‘Ledge’ - the virtual learning environment - for students in the region.
• Administering the process of recruitment of students onto courses from collections within the region.
• Assisting with annual induction day(s) by communicating with students and preparing an appropriate venue.
• Administering for the annual Test in the region – including invigilation and access arrangements as authorised by the college.
• Grading and providing feedback for Unit 31 (Husbandry Portfolio) for students in the region, within a three week turnaround timeframe.
• Attending two Coordinator’s meetings a year and provide feedback to the college.
Requirements
The post holder will:
- Have considerable experience and understanding of working in the zoo or aquarium industry.
- Be able to promote the college values as well as those of this BIAZA led training provision.
- Hold an appropriate academic or professional qualification in a relevant subject at a minimum of level 3.
- Have experience of assessing on vocational programmes.
- Hold, or being willing to gain, relevant qualifications for such assessing.
- Be expected to be self-motivated and a good communicator.
The specific hours involved in this role depend on the student intake each year. Currently there are around 30 students with each requiring 3 tutorials per year (one per term), lasting a maximum of an hour each. Portfolios take approximately 45 minutes to an hour to mark and each student is required to create one portfolio during the two year course – which is graded at the end of second year. As well as this, there is around 2 hours of admin time per week to enable communication with students to facilitate adequate support. The Summer term is the busiest time in this role where tutorials, support and portfolio marking are completed. There are also two meetings to attend per year.
Closing Date: 09 March 2020
College Benefits
• Eligibility to join the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (a defined benefit pension scheme)
• Death benefit grant of 3 X salary if in the pension scheme
• Free on- site parking
• Car Share Scheme
• Occupational Sick Pay Scheme
• Occupational Maternity Pay Scheme
• Access to an Employee Assistance Scheme
There is a nursery on the Sparsholt campus operated by a commercial provider
Attached documents
About Sparsholt College
- Sparsholt College
- Westley Lane, Sparsholt, Winchester
- Hampshire
- SO21 2NF
- United Kingdom
What’s in a name?
Sparsholt College takes its name from the parish of Sparsholt in which it is situated and the neighbouring village.
Pronounced “Spar - sholt” (not “Spars - holt”), the name derives from two old English words:
Spar - a straight timber for making spears,roof timbers, etc.
Holt - an area of managed woodland.
Thus, rural industry, reflected in the local name, continues to be taught and promoted in its modern forms by the
College today.
History
Hampshire County Council was the fourth in England to commit bricks and mortar to agricultural training and the county’s first Farm School was opened in November 1899 at Old Basing, near Basingstoke.
Its aim was “to provide instruction in the science and practice of agriculture and gardening, but particularly to make the practical side approach as nearly as possible to business conditions, consistent with educational purposes and to provide a centre for domestic work in the county”.
In September 1914, the Farm School was transferred to the 400 acre (158 ha) Westley Farm at Sparsholt, specially bought for the purpose by the County Council. Staff and students made do with huts, barns and Westley farmhouse until 1926, when a new College building (now the administrative centre) was opened.
Numbers of students remained in the 30’s and 40’s for many years, with the development of farm and horticultural buildings in line with modern practice of the times.
Between 1970 and the present time, other College educational buildings have developed to accommodate a rapid growth in student numbers as the breadth of land-based subjects was expanded and the depth of academic progression reflected up to six levels of course qualifications.
Higher Education at the College began in 1983, with the introduction of an HND in Fishery Studies. Since then, HE courses have multiplied. The College is directly funded for its Higher Education courses, not as a subsidiary of university-based courses.
In common with all colleges of further education, the College became independent from the County Council in 1993 and is now funded, for FE courses, from central government through the Learning and Skills Council.
The present day College has excellent teaching and training facilities both for theory and practical classes. A superb library and four computer suites reflects the need to keep pace with new methods of learning, while recent construction of superb new training resources (see individual sections’ facilities) keep pace with rapidly developing industrial technology.
More than 1,400 full-time students and 6,000 part-time enrolments have increased the demand for new teaching space and, to this end, the Sainsbury building, incorporating classrooms, lecture theatre and laboratories was opened in December 2000.
Many students use the highly developed residential, social and sports facilities at the College (over 400 single study rooms on site most of which are en-suite). Over its 100+ year history, Sparsholt College has become one of the largest colleges of its kind in the country and, with highly rated educational standards, one of the best regarded.
As with all Further and Higher Education institutions, Sparsholt College is subject to government standards and inspection processes.
Graded results from the last three inspection reports and recently awarded Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) status show the College to be in the highest league and should give every prospective student full confidence in the quality of their course provision.
A reputation alone does not “make” a college, nor do familiar buildings and top class resources; it is also the commitment of a dedicated staff and the motivation of the students which contribute to that “something special” which is Sparsholt College.
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