Lecturer

Job title: Lecturer

School/Function: School of Business

Responsible to: Programme Leader/Head of Programme

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 students, 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

1. 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.

Skills Required
Curriculum Development