Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) Administration and Training Coordinator
| Posting date: | 30 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £15,402 to £17,066 per year |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 13 July 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol, South West England |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 1 day per week |
| Company: | University West of England |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | R08480 |
Summary
About the role:
The Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) team is located within the Coaching Service in Student and Campus Life Services. We are a small and dynamic team working in a strategically important part of the student experience, dedicated to supporting the transition, increased academic confidence and wellbeing, and progression of students new to the University.
The Coaching Service aims to:
grow the ability of our students to engage and succeed in their studies through increased self-efficacy delivered through a coaching approach, peer-on-peer academic and course support, and through extra support for carers, care leavers estranged students and refugees.
support students in realising their talents, building on existing skills to maximise degree outcomes, employment opportunities and post-study activities.
PAL mentoring can happen on a weekly or fortnightly basis in timetabled group sessions, within taught workshops, open studio or lab sessions and during drop-ins in the autumn and spring semesters. Most PAL mentoring takes place in person on campus but there may be opportunities to offer virtual mentoring.
The key principles underpinning our PAL provision are:
It encourages students to be resourceful and to use one another as a resource.
It benefits all students regardless of current academic competency.
It focuses on what and how you learn – both content-based and process-orientated.
It encourages collaborative and active learning.
It promotes academic integrity, learner autonomy, resilience and employability.
It gives privacy to practise the subject, making mistakes and building confidence.
About us:
The Peer Assisted Learning team in the Coaching Service is seeking to appoint an Administration and Training Coordinator with a specific focus on regular liaison with internal and external stakeholders; enquiry services; delivery of training to staff and PAL Mentors; and the coordination of administrative support.
You will work closely with our PAL Coordinators - designated academics within the Colleges – as well as colleagues within the Coaching Service and in other the student support services.
In the role, you will be involved in the development, design and delivery of training content, including for the online environment. You will provide ongoing support and development opportunities for PAL Mentors, Senior PAL Mentors, PAL team members and staff within Student and Campus Life. The latter may take the form of inductions, developmental workshops at meetings as well as orientation sessions.
You will nurture collaborative, operational working relationships with College staff as well as contacts in other services, and counterparts at other Higher Education Providers. This may involve presenting at internal and external meetings/ conferences and assisting in producing written reports on the impact of PAL provision year on year.
About you:
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys building and maintaining relationships; can manage competing priorities and resolve problems; and is seeking to use and develop their mentoring and coaching skills within a learning and teaching context.
To succeed in this role, you should be able to demonstrate the following essential experience:
Supporting or delivering training to groups and individuals.
Strong communication skills used in a wide range of interpersonal situations.
Able to form and maintain effective working relationships with various stakeholders.
Working as part of a team and across teams.
Excellent IT and web navigation skills; experience of MS Office/365, including Excel, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams; and the ability to extract and manipulate data to produce reports.
Broad based administrative experience in a complex organisation, preferably within Further or Higher Education.
Where is the role based?
This post is primarily based at our lively Frenchay Campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed.
Why UWE Bristol?
We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 38,000 students and 4,000 staff from right across the globe.
We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates, generous annual leave and career average pension schemes as well as retail savings, onsite nursery and opportunities for training and personal development.
We particularly encourage applications from global majority candidates as we are currently under-represented in this area of the organisation, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.
As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.
Further information
If you would like an informal discussion about this opportunity please contact Jo Lewis, PAL Manager on 0117 3283452 or email: jo.lewis@uwe.ac.uk
This is a 12-month fixed-term post, and is part-time, working 18.5 hours per week, ideally across 3 days (two of which would be Wednesday and Friday).
UWE Bristol is a campus-based University, this role is therefore primarily campus based, but with the possibility of hybrid-working from time to time depending on the task type.
To ensure fairness and equity all salary offers will be made in line with the University's salary assessment guidelines and will be based on your relevant skills and experience.
Right to Work in the UK
The University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK. You will therefore be required to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK.
We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route. If you do not have current right to work in the UK you may wish to explore other visa options
The Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) team is located within the Coaching Service in Student and Campus Life Services. We are a small and dynamic team working in a strategically important part of the student experience, dedicated to supporting the transition, increased academic confidence and wellbeing, and progression of students new to the University.
The Coaching Service aims to:
grow the ability of our students to engage and succeed in their studies through increased self-efficacy delivered through a coaching approach, peer-on-peer academic and course support, and through extra support for carers, care leavers estranged students and refugees.
support students in realising their talents, building on existing skills to maximise degree outcomes, employment opportunities and post-study activities.
PAL mentoring can happen on a weekly or fortnightly basis in timetabled group sessions, within taught workshops, open studio or lab sessions and during drop-ins in the autumn and spring semesters. Most PAL mentoring takes place in person on campus but there may be opportunities to offer virtual mentoring.
The key principles underpinning our PAL provision are:
It encourages students to be resourceful and to use one another as a resource.
It benefits all students regardless of current academic competency.
It focuses on what and how you learn – both content-based and process-orientated.
It encourages collaborative and active learning.
It promotes academic integrity, learner autonomy, resilience and employability.
It gives privacy to practise the subject, making mistakes and building confidence.
About us:
The Peer Assisted Learning team in the Coaching Service is seeking to appoint an Administration and Training Coordinator with a specific focus on regular liaison with internal and external stakeholders; enquiry services; delivery of training to staff and PAL Mentors; and the coordination of administrative support.
You will work closely with our PAL Coordinators - designated academics within the Colleges – as well as colleagues within the Coaching Service and in other the student support services.
In the role, you will be involved in the development, design and delivery of training content, including for the online environment. You will provide ongoing support and development opportunities for PAL Mentors, Senior PAL Mentors, PAL team members and staff within Student and Campus Life. The latter may take the form of inductions, developmental workshops at meetings as well as orientation sessions.
You will nurture collaborative, operational working relationships with College staff as well as contacts in other services, and counterparts at other Higher Education Providers. This may involve presenting at internal and external meetings/ conferences and assisting in producing written reports on the impact of PAL provision year on year.
About you:
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys building and maintaining relationships; can manage competing priorities and resolve problems; and is seeking to use and develop their mentoring and coaching skills within a learning and teaching context.
To succeed in this role, you should be able to demonstrate the following essential experience:
Supporting or delivering training to groups and individuals.
Strong communication skills used in a wide range of interpersonal situations.
Able to form and maintain effective working relationships with various stakeholders.
Working as part of a team and across teams.
Excellent IT and web navigation skills; experience of MS Office/365, including Excel, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams; and the ability to extract and manipulate data to produce reports.
Broad based administrative experience in a complex organisation, preferably within Further or Higher Education.
Where is the role based?
This post is primarily based at our lively Frenchay Campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed.
Why UWE Bristol?
We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 38,000 students and 4,000 staff from right across the globe.
We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates, generous annual leave and career average pension schemes as well as retail savings, onsite nursery and opportunities for training and personal development.
We particularly encourage applications from global majority candidates as we are currently under-represented in this area of the organisation, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.
As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.
Further information
If you would like an informal discussion about this opportunity please contact Jo Lewis, PAL Manager on 0117 3283452 or email: jo.lewis@uwe.ac.uk
This is a 12-month fixed-term post, and is part-time, working 18.5 hours per week, ideally across 3 days (two of which would be Wednesday and Friday).
UWE Bristol is a campus-based University, this role is therefore primarily campus based, but with the possibility of hybrid-working from time to time depending on the task type.
To ensure fairness and equity all salary offers will be made in line with the University's salary assessment guidelines and will be based on your relevant skills and experience.
Right to Work in the UK
The University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK. You will therefore be required to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK.
We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route. If you do not have current right to work in the UK you may wish to explore other visa options
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