Job Description
Job Title: Sports Science Lecturer
School/ Function: School of Health & 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.
Specific Duties & responsibilities
Teaching & 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 modules.
- Update class notes and other materials and ensure that the VLE is regularly updated.
- Make suggestions through appropriate channels 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 & Marking
The post holder will:
- Set assessments for students and ensure there is a 90+% submissions of assessments for all modules on time.
- Support the production of assessments for module/unit and ensure these are approved in accordance with the relevant procedures.
- Participate in standardisation and moderation meetings as required.
- Provide students with formative feedback as appropriate.
- 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.
- Identify cases of possible academic misconduct and escalate these according to the relevant procedure of assessment boards.
Student Support
The post holder will:
- 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.
Quality Assurance
The post holder will:
- Provide a module evaluation report at the end of each module.
- 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 which other programmes and Schools might usefully draw on.
- Engage with other parts of the College’s quality assurance and academic governance frameworks, as opportunities arise.
- Reflect on the outcomes of student module feedback questionnaires, identifying areas for improvement as well as good practice which colleagues might usefully draw on.
- Contribute to the accreditation of programmes 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 & Resources
- 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 modules are delivered to the standards required.
- Exercise responsibility for the design and delivery of own modules 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 Qualifications
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.
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 & Professionals 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.
- 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).
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 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.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £35,000.00-£45,000.00 per year
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Holborn, Greater London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Do you have any experience teaching within HE?
Education:
Work Location: In person