TRAINEE for the Language Centre

Are you an international student pursuing your Master's degree at the University of Helsinki? Do you want to gain valuable work experience in one of the leading universities in the world? The University of Helsinki International trainee programme is open to all international students enrolled in a University of Helsinki master programme.

The Language Centre is an independent institute of the University of Helsinki. It's an institute of expertise in language and communication teaching and consists of five language units, the Operational Support team and the Language Services unit. Language Centre's duties include providing teaching in language and communication skills to students in the faculties and degree programmes of the University of Helsinki, conducting research relevant to this mission, developing language and communication teaching, learning material and diverse forms of learning.

Language Centre is now looking for a TRAINEE for a fixed term period.

About the position

Your main tasks as a trainee are to assist in organizing different language and communication learning related activities with and for students. Activities include informal language and communication learning possibilities, guidance sessions, the Course Assistant Programme and the Finnish-language Assistant Programme.

You work in the Language Centre's Operational Support team, and are a part of the whole Language Centre work community. Together with the Operational Support team you improve student inclusion, cultural competence and internationalization at the Language Centre. You assist in communications and collaboration surrounding the ongoing projects. The traineeship also includes communications work e.g. updating the Language Centre website and social media. You also have the possibility to produce content, e.g. blogposts, about different topics. In addition, the trainee assists in organizing seminars and workshops.

Each traineeship offers the opportunity to pursue the trainee's own