PhD students have the opportunity to work as Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) in the Department. The major roles include: 

  • Demonstrators for 1st and 2nd year laboratories
  • Teaching Assistants for 1st and 2nd year team-based learning classes
  • Mathematics tutoring for 1st year undergraduates
  • 3rd and 4th year lecture module support – mainly coursework marking

Please note you are required to submit all documentation and register to work as a GTA before you can start working.

If you are interested in working as a GTA, please read all of the information below.  If you have any questions please contact eeecasualworkersupport@imperial.ac.uk

GTA Vacancies 2024-25

 

Module and number of GTAs Module Leader Type of work Hours per week per each GTA Start date/ duration

ELEC40003 - Digital and Computer Architecture 

6 x GTA

 

Dr Hakan Merdan
LFT2- Lab demonstrations of complex (not pre-defined) techniques and computer labs  
LFT3 - Oral assessment of labs (Inc Oral assessment of coursework) 
MAT1- Marking to a pre-defined set of answers (MCQ exam – wiseflow) 
MAT3 - Marking with academic interpretation required and feedback
SUT2- Assessment set-up and exam testing including Wiseflow set up, Coursework testing in labs
TST1- Lecture curating:  maintaining Blackboard and Panopto module folders, Overflow room, Uploading material Teams/Blackboard/Other VLE  
TST2- Delivering tutorials, workshops & seminars and problem classes)   
ED – ED Discussion support
TST3 - 1-2-1 tutorials to support individual students with further comprehensive support (not supervision)  
INV - Invigilation
7 hours per week

30/09/2024

11 Weeks

ELEC50006 - Discrete Mathematics 

4 x GTA

Dr Dan Goodman TST2- Delivering tutorials, workshops & seminars and problem classes 3 hours per week

14/10/24

8 Weeks

ELEC60019 - Machine Learning (Autumn )

8 X GTA

Dr Abd Al Rahman M. Abu Ebayyeh MAT1- Marking to a pre-defined set of answers (MCQ exam – wiseflow) 
MAT2- Marking with academic interpretation required (No feedback provided)
MAT3 - Marking with academic interpretation required and feedback
10 Hours per week

21/11/24 - 12/12/24

10/1/25 - 1/2/25

6 weeks

ELEC70060 - Laboratory in AML

3 x GTA

Dr Abd Al Rahman M. Abu Ebayyeh LFT2- Lab demonstrations of complex (not pre-defined) techniques and computer labs  
TST3 - 1-2-1 tutorials to support individual students with further comprehensive support (not supervision)  
Up to 3 hours

10/10/2024

Potentially up to 21/03/25

ELEC40009 - Topics in Electrical Engineering 

2 x GTA

Dr Michail Kiziroglou TST2- Delivering tutorials, workshops & seminars and problem classes 2 Hours per week

21/10/24

3 weeks

ELEC50004 - Control Systems (Spring)

10 x GTA

Dr Simos Evangelou LFT2- Lab demonstrations of complex (not pre-defined) techniques and computer labs  
MAT3 - Marking with academic interpretation required and feedback
4 hours per week

6/01/25

16 Weeks

ELEC70028 - Predictive Control

4 x GTA

Prof Eric Kerrigan LFT2- Lab demonstrations of complex (not pre-defined) techniques and computer labs  
LFT3 - Oral assessment of labs (Inc Oral assessment of coursework) 
MAT3 - Marking with academic interpretation required and feedback
ED – ED Discussion support
DEVT3 Development of new teaching materials 
TST3 - 1-2-1 tutorials to support individual students with further comprehensive support (not supervision)  
3 hours per week

13/01/25

11 Weeks

         
         
         
         

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Reasons to work as a GTA

1. Reasons to work as a GTA

Acting as a GTA provides you with an opportunity to broaden your experience at Imperial College, and develop further skills. These include learning to teach, convey complex technical concepts, writing/communication skills, etc. You may find that acting as a GTA helps you in improving your own technical abilities (both theoretical and practical), to broaden your knowledge base and to gain communication and task management experience.

Experience in teaching will set you apart from the other PhD students in applications for an academic career.  Acting as a GTA also allows you to contribute to the work of the Department and ‘give something back’ to our community. Your work as a GTA will be celebrated by the Department and Faculty of Engineering via the Best GTA Awards ceremonies.

2. Eligibilty

Only students registered in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering may work as GTAs.  In exceptional circumstances, Module Organisers may make a case to the Director of Undergraduate Studies to employ a student from another Department.

If you are employed as a Research Assistant whilst studying for a PhD, you cannot receive additional payments for GTA work and you should not agree to undertake any.

In order to work as a GTA you will need to prove to Casual Worker Team that you are eligible to work in the UK, before you commence employment.  This applies to everyone, even UK nationals.  You will need to provide all relevant right to work documents. If you have a Tier 4 visa it must state that you are allowed to work. Please see the College's pages on right to work acceptable documents.

You will also require a National Insurance Number. To obtain an NI number, see the information online here.  Please note the National Insurance number process takes several weeks, sometimes months, so you should do this as soon as possible.

 

Tier 4 Visa Restrictions

International students holding Tier 4 visas cannot work for more than 20 hours per week.  If you have a visa please check the details regarding paid work.

3. Training

In order to work as a GTA you must undertake GTA training.  There are two compulsory training workshops (3-hour each):

  1. Introduction to Learning and Teaching
  2. Introduction to Assessment and Feedback for Learning

You may attend any others if you wish to develop you teaching skills further.

Training dates can be found through this link.

GTA performance is monitored by the member of staff employing you. The students can comment on the quality of assistance provided by GTAs and this is used to determine if GTAs are retained for specific tasks.

Useful Information for GTAS: training supported by the Learning Technology team are now available on SharePoint. This includes training on panopto, blackboard and WebPA. 

4. Application and expectations
IMPORTANT: You are not permitted to work until you have submitted your right to work and joining documents

Before applying for any GTA work you must follow the steps below to register as a casual worker. 

  • Check that you are eligible to work in the UK (see section 2 above)
  • Make sure you have a National Insurance Number
  •  Agree the number of hours you will work in the year with your PhD supervisor (not to exceed 200 hours, with max 20 hrs per week for Tier 4 students)

To apply for any of the GTA positions above, please contact the module organiser.  Once you have been accepted by a module organiser, you can start the formal process of registering as a GTA.

The Good Work Plan legislation came into effect on 1 April 2020. It requires employers to provide a much greater level of detail about the registering of casual workers, in order to ensure full compliance with the legislation. 

All GTAs must now complete their full registration process with the College’s Casual Worker TeamMore information about the Casual Worker Team and the purpose of their role can be found on their webpage 

For all GTAs

Workers must submit the form EE GTA 24-25 Appendix form to eeecasualworkersupport@imperial.ac.uk and get approval before starting any work. Each work assignment needs a new Appendix to be submitted.

The Casual Worker Team will contact you and you will complete the rest of the registration process for your GTA work with their team. For new workers, this will involve providing your right to work documents plus National Insurance Number to them. There may be other documentation which you are required to complete, to register as a casual worker for your GTA work.

Once you have been contacted by the Casual Workers Team and have agreement for GTA work in place, the Appendix document is the only document which you need to provide to the department (eeecasualworkersupport@imperial.ac.uk) directly.

You are required to complete one Appendix document per each work assignment. Please note that the module organiser and your supervisor must both sign the Appendix document. 

If you have any queries about the registration requirements, please contact the Casual Worker team directly. The Casual Worker team will also be your point of contact for any queries relating to work available, payments or changes to details.

*Please remember you are required to complete your registration in full, before you can start working as a casual worker on a GTA assignment.

 

Hours and Expectations

Your main objective as a PhD student in the Department is to successfully complete your PhD.  Thus, the maximum number of hours you can spend working as a GTA is limited.  

You should not be asked to work more than 20 hours in any week or more than 200 hours over the course of an academic year.  If you are concerned about the number of hours you have committed to work, you must discuss this with the module organiser and Postgraduate Manager as soon as possible.

The maximum number of hours you can work as a GTA each academic year is determined by your PhD supervisor. It is expected that holders of fully-funded studentships and scholarships will not normally work for more than 100 hours in total over the academic year.  The absolute maximum the Department will allow is 200 hours per academic year.

5. Payment for work

Departments support only below listed GTA work. From 5th August 2024, GTA pay rates are below:

  Tier one £19.63 (excl holiday pay)  Tier two £24.02 (excl holiday pay)  Tier three £31.93 (excl holiday pay) 
Lab Facilitator   LFT2- Lab demonstrations of complex (not pre-defined) techniques and computer labs  
1 hour prep time per 1 week of LAB GTA support per module
LFT3 - Oral assessment of labs 
(Inc Oral assessment of coursework)  
Max prep time 1 hr per assessment 
Marking & Assessment MAT1- Marking to a pre-defined set of answers  
(MCQ exam – wiseflow) 
Prep hours to be claimed as part of marking. Prep-meetings can be claimed 

MAT2- Marking with academic interpretation required 
(No feedback provided as part of marking) 
Prep hours to be claimed as part of marking. Prep-meetings can be claimed 

SUT2- Assessment set-up and exam testing including Wiseflow set up, Coursework testing in labs
No Prep required for role (Training meeting can be claimed) 

MAT3 - Marking with academic interpretation required and feedback 
Prep hours to be claimed as part of marking. Prep-meetings can be claimed 

GRT3- Assessment of group presentations 
Max prep time 1 hr per assessment 

Teaching Support

TST1- Lecture curating:  maintaining Blackboard and Panopto module folders, Overflow room, Uploading material Teams/Blackboard/Other VLE 
No Prep required for role

TST2- Delivering tutorials, workshops & seminars and problem classes)  
Max prep time 1 hr per week per module, per activity 
 
OFF – Office Hours
No Prep required for role (Training meeting can be claimed)

ED – ED Discussion support
No Prep required for role (Training meeting can be claimed)

DEVT3 Development of new teaching materials  
Prep hours to be claimed as part of development
 
TST3 - 1-2-1 tutorials to support individual students with further comprehensive support (not supervision) 
No prep time claimable for this role 
 
Other Casual Work

INV - Invigilation 
No Prep required for role (Training meeting can be claimed)

Oth- Campus tour/Social event/Ambassador
No Prep required for role (Training meeting can be claimed) 

   

Claims must be submitted through the College's casual pay app for the modules you have registered to support. You should not commence employment if your Right to Work checks have not been completed by Casual Worker Team or submit backdated timsheets.   The User Guide and instructions on how to submit claims can be found on the College Casual worker webpage.

  • You’ll be able to enter your time after each shift and save it for submission at the end of the week (Monday to Sunday). Please clarify, in the timesheet comments section, what type of work (as per above) you have done for each claim using the codes.
  • Only submitted timesheets can be seen and approved by the hiring manager. 
  • Rates of pay can be selected from the drop down menu. If you’re unsure which rate of pay to use, please check with
    • Education Office if you are a GTA or undertaking education related causal work
    • SRGA if undertaking research or administrative related casual work
    • EE GTA timesheet guidance 24-25

In order for the Department’s Casual Worker Support Team to be able to process your timesheet claims in time for pay day, please have all claims submitted and approved at Level 1 by the 5th of each month. If timesheets are submitted after the 5th, the Department cannot guarantee payment within that month. 

College pay dates can be found in column 3 on this webpage.

Please ensure that your timesheets are no more than three months overdue. If a timesheet is submitted over three months overdue, the Department’s Casual Worker Support Team will request an explanation.

If you have any questions please email eeecasualworkersupport@imperial.ac.uk

7. Payslips and deductions

You will find your monthly Payslip on My.Imperial.ac.ukPlease note that if you receive less payment than you expect from your GTA work, it may be due to statutory deductions.

Pension

All employers are required by law to enrol staff who meet certain criteria in a pension scheme to help people save more for their retirement. We have to make sure all staff are enrolled in a pension scheme every three years, even if you have opted out before.

If you want to be in a pension scheme, you don’t have to take any action. You will receive confirmation of your enrolment from the pensions office and the relevant pension scheme.

If you don’t want to be in a pension scheme, you can opt out by completing an opt-out form and returning it to pensions@imperial.ac.uk. If you change your mind after you have opted out, you can join a pension scheme at any time by contacting the pensions office.

If you have a query regarding statutory deductions on your Payslip, please contact casualworkerteam@imperial.ac.uk

8. Leaving Casual Work

If you no longer want to be registered as a casual worker or would like to end your contract please fill in this form and you will be contacted by the casual workers team.

Please make sure you have submitted all outstanding timesheets before submitting this form.