Senior Lecturer in Hospitality and Tourism -Stratford

Salary: £50,522 - £61,749 per annum

London weighting: £4,000 per annum

Employment type: Permanent

Hours per week: 37

Reporting into: Head of Department

Department: Department of Hospitality and Tourism

This role operates on a hybrid working arrangement that will require 3/4 days travel into our Stratford campus. This may fluctuate in line with business requirements. Our working model arrangements are a non-contractual benefit so please note that an Arden work location is added to our employment contracts.

• Stratford campus

We are an aspirational and multi-award-winning university, delivering rapid growth with ambitious plans to disrupt the HE sector through our passion for innovation and digital education. Our vision is to become the first-choice university for career-focused lifelong learners worldwide, ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access higher education.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines, forge worldwide partnerships, and expand our locations.

Our academic teams work to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of programmes in accordance with University strategy, policies and procedures and undertake research and scholarly activity.

We contribute to innovation and teaching excellence through scholarly debate and discussion, research and scholarly activity, knowledge transfer and the dissemination of knowledge and best practice.

To lead, develop and monitor postgraduate and undergraduate programmes, ensuring high levels of student outcomes. This includes curriculum development and quality management and enhancement, alongside the full range of teaching duties.

You will undertake effective ongoing review and enhancement of the programme, ensuring high levels of student engagement and outcomes, and ensuring teaching is research-informed, up to date and enables students to develop high levels of subject knowledge and skills for graduate level employment.

The role includes designing and/or leading the development of teaching material, supporting new course proposals and the creation of new programmes and modules, while building internal and external networks and developing links with relevant professional bodies and academic groups.

You will also contribute to planning and managing academic resource, including workload allocation of academic staff and ensuring resources are appropriately deployed.

We are looking for someone who can be a positive role model to staff and students, challenge thinking, foster debate and develop the ability of students to engage in critical discourse. You will have the ability to develop initiative, creativity and judgement to apply appropriate approaches to teaching, learning and assessment, and respond to, and where possible resolve, problems and practical challenges that may affect the achievement of objectives and deadlines.

• Undertake the full range of teaching duties.
• Ensure high levels of student engagement and outcomes on the programme.
• Undertake effective ongoing review and enhancement of the programme.
• Demonstrate and promote high levels of digital literacy in teaching and use of resources.
• Ensure teaching is research-informed, up to date and enables students to develop high levels of subject knowledge and skills for graduate level employment.
• Design and/or lead the development of teaching material for undergraduate, postgraduate level programmes, short courses or CPD.
• Work in accordance with University policies and procedures to drive high quality assessment design and implementation.
• Manage annual workload allocation of academic staff…