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How to apply
To apply for a vacancy you are encouraged to read all the information provided here and contained within the pages accessed through the links in the blue boxes on the right. The University aims to ensure that all recruitment and selection policies are fair, open and equal to all.
You must complete an individual application form for each module you are applying to teach. Your address of residence will be used to consider your suitability for vacancies for modules which have face to face student support. Your application form must demonstrate how you fully meet the generic person specification and the module person specification for the vacancy you are applying for. The module person specification is attached to the vacancy advert. You should provide details of your Higher Education/additional studies and relevant employment history information.
All vacancies can be viewed on our Vacancies page. Vacancies will be advertised for a minimum of three weeks and close dates vary for individual vacancies. Applications from internal staff are considered alongside applications from external applicants, where an advert is advertised externally as indicated in the vacancy advert.
An internal member of staff is an employee who holds a permanent contract, a fixed-term contract or an associate lecturer contract. You are an external applicant if you do not hold a contract of employment or if you are carrying out short-term work for the University, such as residential school work, scriptmarking, day contracts (where you hold no other work with the OU) and consultancy contracts. Collaborative tutors and Research Students are also classed as external.
If you wish to submit your application in Welsh please email us at tutor-services@open.ac.uk for a copy of the application form.
On 27th April, we introduced a new edition of the application form (reference ALAPP1), any previous versions of the form will not be accepted.
To download the application form click here. You should save this to your computer and open the application form with your word processing software. You should have Microsoft Word, Star Office, LibreOffice or Open Office installed on your computer to complete the application form.
If you do not have Microsoft Word or Star Office installed on your computer you can download Open Office for free. Please note: it is not possible to complete the application form in Word Pad or similar Word Pad applications.
How to apply
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