Date Posted: 07/25/2024
Req ID: 38896
Faculty/Division: Centre for Teaching and Learning
Department: UTSC:Ctr-Teaching & Learning
Campus: University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)

Description:

Nature of Assignment:

CTL Writing Support offers skilled, sensitive and supportive writing instruction designed to foster student skills and confidence in order to enable 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 acknowledge that educational institutions, including academic writing instruction, have supported oppressive colonial systems. We also believe that the clear and informed thinking associated with writing is essential to the process of change. We are committed to recognizing and challenging oppressive practices, to creating an inclusive teaching and learning environment, and to promoting equity and diversity.

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

Job Title: CTL Writing Support Writing Instructor

Number of Positions: up to Three (3)

Size of Appointment (hours): up to 150 hours (one position-Fall term only); up to 250 hours (two positions - Fall 2024-Winter 2025)

Session: Fall 2024/Winter 2025

Minimum Qualifications:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills;
• A completed Master’s degree;
• In-person and online experience teaching or tutoring university-level academic writing one-on-one;
• Experience with writing across the full range of disciplines taught at the University of Toronto Scarborough (including Humanities, Social Sciences, Management, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Psychology, Life Sciences, and Physical and Environmental Sciences);
• Experience working with a diverse group of students;
• A scholarly approach to one-to-one writing instruction, including familiarity with best practices;
• Demonstrated commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion;
• Proficiency with platforms used regularly at UTSC for online learning (WCOnline, Zoom and Teams).

Preferred Qualifications:

• A completed PhD or PhD coursework;
• Awareness of recent developments and issues in the field of writing studies, in particular familiarity with scholarly literature around pedagogies of care, and decolonial and/or anti-racist approaches to writing instruction;
• Training in second-language instruction at the university level;
• An academic background in Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, or Social Sciences.

CTL’s Writing Support program at the University of Toronto Scarborough favours applicants with a long-term commitment to writing centre teaching. We also encourage applications from individuals who identify as Black or Indigenous.

Relevant Criterion:

Previous experience is the more relevant criterion than the need to acquire experience in respect of this posted position.

Description of duties:

Writing instructors teach critical analysis, critical reading, modes of argument, research skills, and methods for reading, planning, drafting and revising texts. The chief duty of instructors in CTL Writing Support is to provide one-to-one instruction to students in all disciplines and at all levels of language proficiency. Writing instructors may also be asked to respond to student questions, facilitate course-based writing retreats, facilitate small groups of students in discussing and reviewing writing, develop pedagogical materials, collaborate with discipline-based instructors to develop and teach tailored workshops on aspects of academic writing, and support other Writing Support programming.

For Fall 2024-Winter 2025, writing instruction will be offered both in-person and online using WC Online. Instructors should be prepared to come to campus for in-person hours a minimum of one day per week. If they choose to work from home for remaining hours, they should have access to a stable, high-speed internet line, a computer with a working webcam and microphone and a quiet workspace.

Appointment Dates: Fall Term Only (September 1, 2024 to December 30, 2024) or Fall to Winter Term (September 1, 2024 to April 30, 2025)

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, with a brief explanation of context

5. Short Writing Sample (maximum four pages)

6. Names and contact information of three references

TA Support

N/A

Closing Date: 08/15/2023, 11:59PM EDT
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Salary:

$53.41 per hour + 4% vacation pay (Writing Instructor I)
$56.07 per hour + 4% vacation pay (Writing Instructor I Long Term)
$57.42 per hour + 6% vacation pay (Writing Instructor II)
$58.58 per hour + 6% vacation pay (Writing Instructor II Long Term)
$59.11 per hour + 6% vacation pay (Writing Instructor II Priority)
$60.29 per hour + 6% vacation pay (Writing Instructor II Priority Long Term)

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.