Tutors must officially re-apply to tutor each semester so that our records may be kept up to date.
Applicants must have permission to work within Australia. Other than that, we are looking for alumni, postgraduates, honours students and fourth-year students who have a proven record of academic excellence and good communication skills. For some first-year subjects, we may accept mature-minded third-year students who meet our criteria.
Full-time Honours students will be permitted to work at most 4 hours per week.
Postgraduate students on scholarships may have a ceiling on the number of contact hours they can work in a week, typically 6.
Meetings: Demonstrator/tutor attendance at meetings is compulsory, recorded and you are paid for this attendance. Vital information is usually discussed at meetings, so please reserve that time. Your unit coordinator will advise you of the details of meeting times.
Preparation: All tutors are expected to do a minimum of one hour of preparation before taking a lab or tutorial.
Consultation: All tutors are required to work one or more additional hours per week at our helpdesk, a drop-in centre for students with difficulties.
Pay Rates: You will be paid for:
The standard pay rate varies according to the number of hours of contact you have with students. Details are provided on the pay information sheet. For every hour of contact you have with students, you will be paid also to do various "behind the scenes" work such as marking and administration. This is not an optional component of tutoring and demonstrating. Such work is recognised by the university as being essential to your contribution to the running of its units. * Pay rates are subject to change according to the university enterprise bargaining agreement (they usually rise over time) *
Requests for Payment and Timesheets: Most tutors will need to register their pay claims on TCUP, an online payment registration system. Monash University pays its employees every two weeks on alternating Thursdays. Tutors who do tutoring in other faculties besides the Faculty of Information Technology may be required to fill out regular timesheets for approval by their unit coordinators instead of using TCUP. If you think this might apply to you, please consult your unit coordinator and the staff in the faculty finance office (building 63) for further information.
Training: All new tutors are asked to complete a tutor training course. Information about the training course and times and dates of induction and followup workshops will be given to new tutors once dates are confirmed. (Training courses may be conducted in orientation week and the first week of semester). You will be paid for attendance at this course.
To apply for a tutoring position please use the online application system.
If you have any questions about the process, please contact Karen Fenwick at Karen.Fenwick@infotech.monash.edu.au.
Applications will usually only be accepted during the three weeks immediately prior to a semester, and in the first week of a semester. Please do not apply outside these times unless a special note requesting extra applications is posted here indicating you may do so.
The information you will require to complete your online application is as follows:
| Family name | |
| Given names | |
| Home telephone | |
| Mobile telephone | |
| Work telephone | |
| Email address | |
| If you are a current Monash student, your current year level and your current degree. | e.g. Honours, Software Engineering |
| Exisiting tertiary qualifications. | e.g. Bachelor of Computer Science, Monash University 2004 |
| Total number of hours you would
like to work per week. (Honours students limited to 4. Postgraduates on scholarships are limited to 6. No tutor is likely to be allocated more than 12 hours per week but you can request more than this amount if you wish.) |
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| Times on each of the days during which you are available to tutor. | Mon. X am - Y pm |
| Tue. X am - Y pm | |
| Wed. X am - Y am | |
| Thu. X am - Y pm | |
| Fri. X am - Y pm | |
| List any Monash unit codes within this faculty for units which you have previously tutored. | |
| If you have not tutored within this faculty and have not been a student within this faculty, you will need to attach a CV to your application in PDF format. Alternatively, if you have been a student in the faculty but you have not tutored here before, you will need to write a couple of lines describing any *relevant* experience you might have. (e.g. tutoring elsewhere) | |
| Unit code(s) for a subject you'd like to tutor. | e.g. CSE1566 |
| e.g. CSE2344 | |
| If you have previously completed some units as a student and would like to tutor these same units, you'll need to list the units, the years in which you completed them, and the final marks you received. | e.g. CSE1566, 2003, 67. CSE2344, 2004, 78. |
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posted 31 Jan 2007 by Alan Dorin
based on material provided by Jeanette Niehus