Lecturer, Academic, University Professor

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…