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About the Role

Oxbridge Summer Scholars (OSS) seeks a Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship Academic Consultant to provide expert academic input for their Science, Innovation & Technology Stream. This role involves supporting content development, quality assurance, and assessing student essays to ensure high academic standards for pre-university students.

Responsibilities

Provide expert advice on academic content for the Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship Stream.
Advise on appropriate topics, concepts, theories, case studies, and current developments.
Recommend subject-specific approaches and academic skills for university preparation.
Review proposed content and suggest improvements.
Review selected lectures, seminars, tutorials, and learning materials for academic accuracy and relevance.
Support the maintenance of high and consistent academic standards.
Provide subject-specific input into essay questions and prompts.
Advise on academic skills and competencies students should demonstrate.
Contribute to Stream-specific assessment criteria and feedback guidelines.
Help establish clear standards for strong pre-university academic work.
Assess student essays according to agreed criteria.
Nominate essays that merit an Excellence Award.
Provide detailed, constructive, and individualised written feedback on student essays.
Maintain consistency in applying assessment criteria.
Identify recurring strengths, challenges, or learning needs from student work.
Collaborate with other Academic Consultants to improve the essay assessment and feedback process.
Contribute subject-specific recommendations for programme improvement.

Requirements

A degree in a relevant discipline at Master’s level or above, either currently being undertaken or completed, or confirmed acceptance onto a relevant Master’s programme.
Deep subject knowledge in at least one area covered by the stream, with a broad grasp of adjacent areas.
Excellent written communication skills.
Ability to give detailed, encouraging, yet honest feedback.
Experience teaching, lecturing, supervising, or assessing students at university or sixth-form level (desirable).
Experience marking written work against set criteria and giving clear, constructive feedback (desirable).
Active research, publications, or industry experience that brings real-world perspective (desirable).

Skills

Subject-matter expertise in Business, Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Management
Academic quality assurance
Essay assessment and feedback
Curriculum development support
Written communication
Critical thinking
Analytical reasoning
Evaluation of evidence
Interpretation of data
Application of theory

Location

Fully remote

Work Type

Remote
On-demand
Part-time

Experience Level

Subject-matter specialist

Education Level

Master's degree or above

About the Company

Oxbridge Summer Scholars (OSS) runs two-week residential summer and winter programmes in Oxford and Cambridge colleges for students aged 14 to 18.
Students explore their chosen stream, build university-study skills and experience Oxbridge life through rigorous lectures, seminars and tutorials.
Each student writes an essay and receives detailed individual feedback from a subject specialist; the strongest essays earn Excellence Awards.