Job Description
Job Title: Lecturer in Sports Science
School/ Function: School of Health and Sports Science
Salary: £35,000 - £45,000
Location: London
Responsible to: Programme Leader/ Head of School
Responsible for: Teaching on their specialist subject to students
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 hybrid (face-to-face or online) and has responsibility for ensuring that the students undertaking a specific module or unit engage with the module, fulfil their potential in terms of achievement of learning outcomes and enjoy a high-quality student experience. In addition, a lecturer may work more across a programme to support students in their learning journey.
Personal Specification:
Experience & Personal Qualities
Essential:
- 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
- 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
Education & Professional Qualities:
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.
- Appropriate digital skills in learning, teaching and assessment
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.
- A minimum of 1 year’s team leadership experience
- Teaching qualification or preparedness to work towards.
- Membership of appropriate Professional Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB)
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £35,000.00-£45,000.00 per year
Ability to commute/relocate:
- London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Do you have experience within the HE sector?
Education:
Work Location: In person