Engineering Module Leader & Tutor; Part-Time

Academic Teaching Staff
-Engineering Module Leader or Tutor

Type:

Fixed-term contract; part-time, hourly paid contract

At Keele University International College,we believe in opening doors to transformative educational experiences for international students. As an associate college of Keele University,we work in close collaboration to create a real community of learners for success embedded in our outstanding campus with itshigh-quality learning, teaching,research and social facilities.

To achieve our goal of creating a modern and dynamic educational institution committed to providing high quality educational programmes and excellent student support in an environment that encourages students to achieve the best possible results in their studies, we are currently recruiting sessional academic staff.

Thus, we invite applications from academics interested in being included in a pool of sessionallecturersandmoduleleaderswith the opportunity for hourly paid work on our Foundation, International Year One or Pre-Master'sprogrammes.

Applications are accepted from academics withexpertiseindelivery of Engineeringmodules in FE or HE.

• Previousteaching experience in a related field
• A University degree;
  Masters (-equivalent) or higher
• Ability to communicate with staff and students from a diverse range of cultural and educational backgrounds
• Excellent verbal and written English language communication skills
• Good IT, general administration, dataanalysisand presentation skills
• A  can do  mentality
• A track recordof being a successful educator
• Desirably, knowledge of the UK Higher Education system (and/orpreviousteaching experience at a UKFE orHE institution).

• Deliver lectures
• Facilitate seminars
• Facilitate assessments
• Marking and feedback of a specific module group
• Whereappropriate workwith Academic Demonstrator/ lab assistant to deliver a lab session
• Monitor student attendance,engagement, and performance
• Assist College Services and Academic Mentorswith student support activities
• Participate in some Quality Assurance activities:
  • Standardisation
  • Double/second marking
  • Moderation
• Assist Moduleleaderin their reporting duties

• Ensure all module materials are up-to-date and support students in achieving the module learning outcomes
• Ensure the module VLE is of high quality and complete
• Where there are several module groups, ensure all Sessional Lecturers deliver the module consistently
• Deliver lectures
• Facilitate seminars
• Create assessment briefsand the actual assessmentsin line with the module specification(this also includes re-assessments)
• Marking and feedback of specific module group
• Whereappropriate liaise with KU laboratory technicians to organise lab sessions andorder required lab kit
• Whereappropriate workwith Academic Demonstrator/ lab assistant to deliver a lab session
• Assist College Services and Academic Mentorswith student support activities
• coordinate andparticipatein Quality Assurance activities of the module:
  • Standardisation
  • Double/ second marking
  • Moderation
• Gather andassistcollege in response to student feedback
• Assist theDLLintheir reporting duties
• Monitor student attendance,engagement and performance at module level
• Be accountable for module level student outcomes (e.g. retention, satisfaction, successful completion)

At the discretion of the College Director and Principal we offer an hourly rate for contact classroom hours between £28and £46depending on level of qualification, teachingexperienceandadditionalmodule Leader responsibilities. In addition, meetings, otheradditionalduties, and marking are paid separately.

Holiday pay is NOT included in the above pay rates and will be calculated and paid based on all earnings at the end of a fixed term contract, at a rate of 12.07%.

KUIC academic sessional staff will also have access to staff training, professional development sessions, and Learning and Teaching conferences.

All appointments are subject to successful DBS, Right to Work and 2 satisfactory references