Teaching assistant The Department of Food Technology - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Description of the workplace
The department of Food Technology, Engineering and Nutrition at LTH and Lund University conducts teaching, among other subjects, in food engineering, in several different educational programs. Lund University is a public authority which means that employees get several benefits.

Work duties

In your role as teaching assistant you will get support from the course director in planning the exercise sessions, help with answers to your questions as well as other support on both the content and pedagogical design of the teaching activities. You will, together with another teaching assistant, be responsible for leading eight exercise session in the course Food Engineering (KLGN20). The course is taught in English. The exercises treat different computational and theoretical aspects of food engineering, including freezing, microbial kinetics, mass- and energy transfer and uncertainty management analysis. You will also, as a part of your preparations for the teaching activities, need to solve the problems in the problem set used in the course.

Qualification requirements
Only those admitted to first or second-cycle courses and study programmes at the faculty may be employed as teaching assistants.

Additional requirements

• At least 120 hp education which is deemed relevant by the employer.
• Passed the course KLGN 20 Food Engineering at LTH with at least grade 4, or equivalent from another university.
• Very good oral and written proficiency in English
• Good communication skills.

Other qualifications

• More passed courses related to food engineering and/or chemical engineering, or in related subjects, preferably with high grades.
• Previous experience from teaching and from taking leadership roles. Previous experience from teaching, in a role as a teaching assistant or similar.
  
  

Terms of employment

This is a part-time, fixed-term employment, 13% in the period 2023-10-01 – 2023-12-31. The employment must not have adverse effects on the teaching assistant’s studies. The employment as a Teaching Assistant is regulated in the Higher Education Ordinance (SFS 2017:284), 5 chapter 8-12 §§

Instructions on how to apply

When submitting your application, you will be asked to answer the following assessment criteria based question. Also, please append a short personal letter (max 1 A4-sized page). CV should not be appended.

• State which educational program you are admitted to and what year you were admitted.
• State if you have received a degree from LTH, and in that case from what educationa program.
• Append a LADOK-statement, or similar, certifying that you meet the requirements.
• State previous engagement in teaching. Please specify course, course director, year and your responsibilities within that course.
• Provide information about how many of the exercises that you will be able to participate in (i.e., the sessions which will not collide with your own course schedule). Use TimeEdit (https://cloud.timeedit.net/lu/web/lth1/) and search for KLGN20. You will need to manually adjust the period from ‘Current week’ to the end of the year to see the scheduled time-slots.

Welcome to apply!