Senior Computing Lecturer

Job Title: Senior Computing Lecturer

School/Function: School of Engineering and Computing

Responsible to: Programme Leader/Head of Programme(s)

Responsible for: Supporting high-quality student learning and teaching experience for a designated student group and design, development and delivery of relevant academic curricula within the subject area.

*You must have a minimum of 2 years Higher Education teaching experience in the UK*

JOB DESCRIPTION

Overall purpose

Senior Lecturer is a crucial postholder in our academic management structure with responsibility to ensure students receive a consistent and high-quality learning, teaching and assessment experience.

The role encompasses the full job description of the Senior Lecturer role, plus the academic and student support management responsibilities detailed below. The post holder will provide a combination of teaching, student support and academic management to their respective School ensuring students engage and are able to receive a high-quality academic experience throughout their taught modules and programme.

Specific duties and responsibilities

Academic Management

The Senior Lecturer takes on the line management responsibilities of an assigned number of Academic Colleagues in the support of students. Within the execution of the role the post holder will:

• Adopt a work allocation model for their team.
• Set out mechanisms to effectively report the progress of staff and students’ activities to them
• Perform the required line management function for the assigned team.
• Support with the staff development processes for assigned staff.
• Participate in the recruitment and induction process of staff and students as required.
• Mentor colleagues with less experience and advise on personal development, particularly around providing high quality personal academic tutoring.

Student Support

The post holder will

• Be the first point of academic contact for a group of assigned students, serving as their Personal Academic Tutor and overseeing their personal academic skill development.
• Deliver group and one-tone-sessions with their personal tutees each semester, ensuring the tutees are attending and engaging with the process and more widely on their programme.
• Work with the Student Success Officer, Student Finance Officer and ARWA Officer teams to support students and ensure that support plans are available for students.
• Ensure that student voice is being heard and that academic needs of students are managed.
• Ensure any issues of student engagement or performance are addressed, signposting students to specialist College services as necessary.
• Field any pastoral requirements 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

Teaching

The post holder will

• Support Learning, Teaching and Assessment in line with our LTA Plan despite a reduced teaching load to enable the student support responsibility.
• Be responsible for supporting a high-quality academic experience for each student in line with the OfS B condition – specifically B1, B2, B4 and B5 so that B3 is also achievable.
• Design teaching material and deliver either across a range of modules or within a subject area.
• Produce duly approved and signed off detailed Scheme of work, aimed at academic review and monitored by the PL / HoP
• Support student engagement with the programme and each module and make sure this is managed in an effective way so KPIs are met.
• Liaise with Module Leaders, Programme Leaders, HoP and Dean to flag any relevant concerns that could adversely impact a high-quality academic experience and provide recommendations
• Review students’ module evaluation reports and contribute as appropriate to the Annual Monitoring Reports and Programme Plans.

Assessment and Marking

The post holder will

• Provide students with timely and constructive formative feedback
• Produce and mark summative assessments according to the approved assessment brief and provide timely and constructive feedback to students within the deadlines published by the Assessment Team.
• Support Academic Integrity amongst students and support cases of possible academic misconduct, according to the relevant procedure, providing support where necessary.
• Review all relevant module assessments ensuring they are in line with the awarding body (ies) expectations.
• For each new academic year – review assessments / update as needed. (e.g., Resits, Answer Keys, Marking Rubrics are updated)
• Prepare/monitor all External Examiner / Assessment Board Reports.

Scholarship

The postholder will

• Engage with scholarship within the School ensuring the impact is evident in the classroom
• Support the School in its plans and in line with the College’s Research and Scholarship Plan

Person Specification

EXPERIENCE & PERSONAL QUALITIES

Essential:

• Significant student support experience
• Course management experience, namely at course and degree level. Evidence of ability to meet the teaching needs at course and degree level
• Experience or knowledge of quality assurance and validation of HE modules / programmes
• 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
• Ability to work as a team member to enhance the quality of taught provision, increase levels of student satisfaction, improve levels of student retention, progression and employability, and support student enterprise activities.
• 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:

• Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills including oral; written/literacy; numeracy and presentation, underpinned by the ability to use IT to support students and discharge administrative responsibilities (e.g., MS Office and Outlook). Evidence of the use of VLEs in teaching (e.g. MS Teams/Blackboard/Moodle). (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 relevant subject discipline
• 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.

Desirable:

• PhD (or submitted and awaiting examination) or equivalence accepted in a relevant subject area, for example by publication or through appropriate professional achievement or willingness to work towards within an agreed timeframe
• Alternatively, ability to demonstrate equivalent core knowledge and expertise gained from leading edge practice will be considered in some circumstances.
• Teaching qualification or preparedness to work towards.
• Membership of appropriate Professional Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB)
• Appropriate digital skills in learning, teaching and assessment

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
• 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 school 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 school.

- Full Right to Work in the UK. No Sponsorship will be given for this role.

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The Legal Bit

If you are successful, Protocol is required to see evidence of your Right to Work in the UK.