Online Learning Advisor

Summary

Join Swinburne Online as an Online Learning Adviser (OLA) in Statistics and contribute to a world-class online learning experience. You will be responsible for delivering engaging academic content, facilitating learning activities, and assessing student work. This 100% remote role offers flexible hours and a comprehensive training program. We seek candidates with a postgraduate degree in Applied Statistics or Psychology, at least 5 years of relevant industry experience, and strong statistical knowledge. Successful candidates will be passionate about student success, possess excellent communication skills, and thrive in a remote work environment. This is an opportunity to utilize your expertise, develop your online teaching skills, and be part of a supportive team.

Requirements

• Hold a minimum postgraduate degree in Applied Statistics or Psychology
• Have a minimum of 5 years relevant industry experience in the field of statistics/psychology
• Have experience and strong knowledge of basic statistics, ANOVAs and Multiple Regressions as well as proficiency using statistics package SPSS
• Be motivated by student success and passionate about online learning
• Be a passionate and clear communicator
• Have strong presentation skills and the ability to maintain an engaging and positive online presence
• Be proactive and organised
• Thrive in a remote working environment

Responsibilities

• Provide an exceptional student experience through the delivery of academic content developed by our partner academics and our learning design team
• Facilitate learning activities that engage and support student learning
• Undertake assessment tasks (including moderation, marking, and feedback) as well as processing and submitting results according to set timelines

Benefits

• 100% remote work with flexible hours to fit around your other commitments
• Paid 3-week online facilitation training course that will provide you with best practice strategies to engage and support online students. (You will need to ensure you are available for 20 hours of online training across this time period)
• The ability to use your discipline expertise to help others achieve their goals
• The opportunity to develop your online teaching skills within a forward thinking innovative organisation
• A supportive and connected team to grow and develop within