PGTA - Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources (BSEER)

Job description

About us
The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources (BSEER) is recruiting a cohort of Postgraduate Teaching Assistants (PGTAs) to support education across the department starting from the next academic year.

The school is set within The Bartlett Faculty, which has been ranked #1 in the world for the third year in a row in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025 (Architecture and Built Environment), and remains #1 in the UK for the eleventh year running.

We are comprised of four world-class institutes, providing expert knowledge, collaborative research, and teaching across UCL Energy Institute, UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage, and UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. For further information about the School, please visit: The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources.

About the role
The purpose of this role is to support and work with the academic leads on small group teaching and learning across our programmes.

PGTAs will be given training and ongoing support to assist them with their main duties, which include:

• tutorial class teaching
• regular meetings with the module lead/lecturers
• provision of feedback to students
• provision of weekly office hours
• attendance reporting
• coursework assessment
• examination marking

Please see further information in the attached Job Description. 

Key responsibilities

• Teaching assistance through the facilitation of seminars and/or workshops;
• Class preparation and meeting with lecturers/module organisers;
• After-class contact time with students, including time-tabled office hours;
• Dissertation co-supervision at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level(s);
• Marking students' work;
• Giving feedback to students

Requirements for role

You must be registered as a PhD student, either full or part time, at the start of the academic year 2025/2026 to be eligible to apply. You must have the right to work in the UK.

How to apply

A document outlining all the available vacancies is attached; as part of your application, you will be asked to specify which roles you would like to be considered for.

Please apply via the UCL Jobs Portal.

If you have any queries about the role or about the application process, or, if you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you in your application, please contact the BSEER HR Team at bseer-recruitment@ucl.ac.uk.

Due to uncertainty around total student numbers, we are taking a conservative approach to the initial hours offered. However, there may be opportunities for additional work once student numbers are confirmed in mid to late October.

Please note this is primarily intended as an internal opportunity - only if there is no suitable PhD student at UCL identified would external applications from students at other universities be accepted and considered.