Would you like to run your own business as a Digital Unite tutor?
You won’t make a fortune but it’s really rewarding helping older people get to grips with digital technology. You’ll be part of a community of people doing the same thing, and you’ll have the Digital Unite brand behind you. Digital Unite will support you with training and advice on marketing and other aspects of being a freelance tutor and with learner materials that are only available to our Tutors.
What you receive from Digital Unite
Digital Unite has been running a network of self-employed IT tutors all over the UK since 1999. As one of our tutors you’ll get:
- Rights to use the Digital Unite brand and stand out from the competition. Digital Unite is well established as one of the UK’s leading providers of digital skills learning for older people and other less confident users. We work alongside, and are recommended by, a number of Government departments (see here) to help steer the digital inclusion agenda and are actively working with other organisations and partners such as Age UK, UK online centres, the BBC and Race Online 2012 to help improve digital literacy nationally.
- A teaching area in which to market your services as a DU Tutor. You will be allocated a teaching area encompassing the area around your home. We will refer all enquiries from potential clients in and around this area to you and we will not appoint new tutors in this area without prior discussion with you.
- Support, from Digital Unite Head Office and the Digital Unite tutor network. Being a freelance can be lonely; you don’t have the colleagues to support you as you would working in a company. Here at Digital Unite you will get support and advice from the Head Office team who have many years’ experience in the business. You will also be part of a network of tutors doing the same job and facing the same challenges. You will have access to a private online forum and be given the contact details for all of the other tutors.
- Training on being a freelance tutor, marketing and IT accessibility. Your Joining Fee covers a one-day Induction Course (see timings and locations below), where you will work with DU Tutor Managers and other new Tutors to identify and suggest answers to the issues you will meet. You will also take part in a series of webinars on marketing and IT accessibility, from DU’s resident experts.
- Marketing materials. To help you with your local marketing activity you will have access to a number of professionally designed downloadable promotional materials. These materials include an A4 poster, an A5 leaflet, an A6 postcard, a gift voucher and a business card and have been created in such away that you can edit your own details on each template.
- Tutor handbook. An extensive and comprehensive Tutor Handbook is provided to all tutors. The Handbook provides advice and guidance on a whole host of aspects including setting yourself up as self-employed, teaching styles and skills and how to market your services locally.
If you would like to know more about joining our tutor network, please use the contact form to tell us your name, postcode, email address and telephone number and we will send you our tutor prospectus.
As part of the recruitment process you will be required to attend an induction and depending on demand these will be held as follows:
12 March 2012 - Leicester
June 2012 - London or Hampshire
October/November 2012 – London or Hampshire