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Overall Purpose
The role of Lecturer in the School will be required to design, develop, and produce learning and teaching material and deliver either across a range of modules or within a subject area. The role will be based on campus and has responsibility for ensuring that the students undertaking a specific unit engage with the unit, fulfil their potential in terms of achievement of learning outcomes and enjoy a high-quality student experience. In addition, a lecturer supports students in their learning journey acting as a Personal Academic Tutor to a dedicated group of students and overseeing their personal academic development through group and one-to-one meetings.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Teaching and Learning
The post holder will:
- Teach a set number of sessions each week, including lecturers, seminars, tutorials.
- Maintain attendance registers for teaching sessions and work with the attendance team to ensure the accuracy of the information being entered for students on digital registers.
- Deliver/facilitate teaching sessions in line with the approved programme and module specifications.
- Work in line with digital provisions including VLEs and MS Teams.
- Ensure that students are engaging in their sessions.
- Develop teaching materials for units.
- Update class notes and other materials and ensure that the VLE is regularly updated.
- Make suggestions through appropriate channels on how to improve student academic experience.
- Identify the need for developing the content or structure of modules with colleagues and make proposals on how this should be achieved.
- Assessment and Marking
The post holder will:
- Set assessments for students and ensure there is a 90+% submissions of assessments for all unit on time.
- Support the production of assessments for unit and ensure these are approved in accordance with the relevant procedures.
- Participate in unit standardisation meetings as required.
- Arrange formative assessments during the semester and provide feedback.
- Mark summative assessments according to the approved assessment brief and provide timely and constructive feedback to students within the deadlines published in the assessment calendar.
- Act as internal verifier for assigned module to ensure the quality of assessed work meets the Pearson assessment regulations.
- Act as Lead internal verifier to ensure marked work is assessed accurately and assessment decisions are aligned with unit assessment criteria and Pearson assessment guidelines.
- Identify cases of possible academic misconduct and escalate these according to the relevant procedure of assessment boards.
- Student Support
The post holder will:
- Act as a Personal Academic Tutor for a dedicated group of students, providing both group and one-to-one sessions with their tutees every semester.
- Ensure any issues of student engagement or performance are addressed with their tutees, signposting students to specialist College services as necessary.
- Field any pastoral requirements their tutees or other students may have, signposting them to relevant specialist College services as necessary.
- Monitor the progress of individual students’ Learning Support Plans, liaising with specialist services as necessary
- Quality Assurance
The post holder will:
- Provide a unit evaluation report at the end of each unit.
- Contribute to Programme evaluations as required.
- Engage with Programme Committee meetings, contributing towards continuous improvement of the students’ learning experiences and the identification of good practice.
- Engage with quality assurance and academic governance frameworks, as opportunities arise.
- Reflect on the outcomes of student unit feedback questionnaires, identifying areas for improvement as well as good practice which colleagues might usefully draw on.
- Contribute to the accreditation of programme and quality control processes.
- Scholarship
The post holder will:
- Engage in scholarship as required to support teaching activities and continually update knowledge.
- Extend, transform and apply knowledge applied from scholarship to teaching and appropriate external activities.
- Support the School in its plans and in line with the College’s Scholarship Plan
- Managing People and Resources
The post holder will:
- As module leader (if allocated), co-ordinate with others (such as support staff or academic colleagues) to ensure student needs and expectations are met.
- Manage projects relating to own area of work and the organisation of external activities such as placements and field trips.
- Co-ordinate the work of others (e.g. Associate lecturers) to ensure units are delivered to the required standards.
- Exercise responsibility for the design and delivery of own units and assessment methods considering established or agreed practice where necessary.
- Support the student recruitment and marketing teams as appropriate (e.g. academic interviews).
- Tackle issues affecting the quality of delivery within scope of own level of responsibility, referring more serious matters to Programme Leader (or others as appropriate).
Person Specification - Experience &Personal Qualities
Essential
- Experience or knowledge of quality assurance and HE programme.
- Experience or knowledge of higher education and ability to use a range of delivery techniques to inspire and engage students
- Significant experience within a subject area relevant to the School
- Positive attitude to colleagues and students
- Communicate information effectively, both verbally and in writing, engaging the interest and enthusiasm of the target audience
- Ability to influence, collaborate and interact effectively with a range of stakeholders including staff (at all levels), students and others.
- Ability to provide expert guidance to students and other work areas and to develop understanding and resolve complex problems.
- Ability to achieve key performance indicators through persuasion and negotiation where no direct authority exists.
- Ability to respond and adapt with agility to often rapidly moving events and developments in both the school and College
- Excellent written and oral communication skills including networking and relationship building skills, both across the University and externally
- Able to demonstrate both independent self-management and team working
- Able to work with competing priorities and to tight deadlines
- Demonstrates competences, core behaviours and supplementary behaviours that support and promote the University’s core values
- Flexible to the needs of others
- Innovative and creative
- Desirable
- Experience of research and enterprise activity
- Evidence achievement or willingness to achieve high-quality publications or other outputs in research or practice
- Able to participate in and develop external networks
Technical Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- An appropriate level of digital capability and aptitude with practical experience of applications which aid student learning
- Ability to communicate complex and conceptual ideas to a range of groups
- Proficient in using IT to support own work and for application to technology-enhanced learning/ teaching and research activities
- Committed to a high-performance culture, fostering continuous improvement and driving quality
Desirable
- Knowledge of higher education and ability to use a range of delivery techniques to enthuse and engage students
Education & Professional Qualifications
Essential
- Master’s degree in a relevant subject discipline.
- Teaching qualification or Fellowship of the Advanced Higher Education (HEA)or willingness to work towards(within 12 months)
- Sufficient breadth and depth of specialist knowledge in the discipline to develop teaching programmes and the provision of learning support.
- Experience of teaching, curriculum development and quality management and enhancement in an HE environment.
- Appropriate digital skills in learning, teaching and assessment
Desirable
- PhD (or submitted and awaiting examination) or equivalent through publication or professional achievement, or willingness to work towards it.
- Ability to align with the College core values in all areas of work, and champion those behaviours in the school.
- Minimum of 1 year’s team leadership experience.
- Teaching qualification or preparedness to work towards.
- Membership of appropriate Professional Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB)
Other
- Able to take a flexible approach to work (i.e., Conduct Intention to Study interviews; filling in when needed with teaching
- A commitment to the principle of widening participation
- A commitment to the College’s values and behaviours.
- A willingness to work/travel across college sites
- Some evening and occasional weekend teaching
- A commitment to own professional development
- Compliance with relevant Health & Safety issues;
- Ability to contribute to ensuring that these are aligned with education activities;
- Ability to contribute to ensuring that the College has a process for appropriate risk assessment in relation to education and student activity.
- Ability to align with the College core values in all areas of work, and champion those behaviours in the College.
