Tutor

Brief Description

Responsibilities

• Attendance Supervision: Accompany students to NGOs and ensure attendance compliance.
• Student Supervision: Provide on-site supervision of students during their NGO visits.
• Debriefing Sessions: Facilitate post-visit debriefing sessions to help students reflect on their experiences and insights.
• Tutoring: Deliver course content, support learning, and guide students in conducting situational analyses and implementing recommendations.
• Facilitate student writing by providing structured feedback on short writing tasks, online discussion forums, and essay submissions.
• Facilitate in-person tutorial sessions.
• Assist in marking assignments and portfolios.
• Conduct consultation sessions to provide further feedback to students who make appointments.
• Collaborate with lecturers to gain insights into teaching methodologies and course development.
• Assist with research.

Requirements

• Completed undergraduate degree in health sciences, or related/relevant humanities or social science disciplines.
• Enrolment for a postgraduate degree at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Advantage

• Postgraduate degree.
• Passion for community engagement and improving health outcomes.
• Explicit interest in the training and development of health science students in the intersecting competencies related to health, medicine, and society.
• Previous tutoring/teaching responsibilities will be an advantage.

Key Information

Duration: Feb – November 2025
Time commitment: up to a maximum of 23 hours per month.
Remuneration: Commensurate with the university rate for Academic Tutors.

Academic tutor will tutor select course content, as directed and supervised by the relevant course coordinator and/or lecturers. Weekly discussions between the lecturer and tutor provide vital information about student learning and give the tutor insight into how the lecturer designs and develops their teaching.

The course aims to promote critical thinking, engagement, and effective integration of the disciplines of health systems science, public health, community health, psychology, sociology, medical history, ethics, and health law, amongst others. These courses require a particular interest, qualification, and experience in one or more of these fields to enable clear feedback and sufficient individual attention provided to students, where possible.

This role offers excellent teaching experience, a chance to learn how lecturers develop their thinking as they teach, and job satisfaction as you help students learn to learn within the discipline. It is also a useful addition to your CV. Tutors are key facilitators of student learning, providing critical support at the outset of their tertiary education. Orientation session and short training on writing intensive approaches and/or online facilitation will be provided.