Lecturer in Electrical Engineering

Job Title: Lecturer in Electrical Engineering

School/Function: School of Higher Education

Responsible to: Programme Leader/Head of School

Responsible for: Teaching on their specialist subject to students

Overall Purpose:

The role of Lecturer in Electrical Engineering 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 face to face 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 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 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 and 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

Person Specification

Experience and 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

Education and Professional Qualifications

Essential:

• Master’s degree in relevant subject discipline 
• 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

Additional Requirements: 

- Qualification – require a MA or MSc at the minimum for this role minimum or PhD, minimum two plus years UK higher education experience and UK Teaching Qualification.

- Full Right to Work in the UK. No Sponsorship will be given for this role. 

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