Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering

Job Description

Job Title: Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering

Company: Regent College London

Salary: Maximum salary up to 45k per annum

Reports to: Head of School / Programme Leader

Hours of work: Your required hours of work are 40 hours per week. The business operations are Mon-Thurs, 9am - 9pm and Fri - Sun, 9am - 6pm

Location: Must be flexible to work at Holborn

Regent College London (RCL) is a leading independent higher education provider, delivering flexibility, choice, and innovation to our students. We have a Central London campus and multiple study centres around London, with an international reach through our online delivery modes. We are a diverse community that promotes learning, personal development, and achievement with an established record of success. We pride ourselves on our student-centred service which is reflected in our students' 93% satisfaction rating in the 2022 Student Survey.

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 and responsibilities:

Teaching and Learning:

• Teach a set number of sessions each week, including lectures, seminars, and 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 Regent 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 on how to improve the 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:

• Set assessments for students and ensure there is a 90+% submission rate 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:

• 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:

• 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 practices 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 practices which colleagues might usefully draw on.
• Contribute to the accreditation of programmes and quality control processes.

Scholarship:

• Engage in scholarship as required to support teaching activities and continually update knowledge.
• Extend, transform, and apply knowledge 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:

• 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 the scope of own level of responsibility, referring more serious matters to Programme Leader (or others as appropriate).

Person Specification:

EXPERIENCE & 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 towards 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 competencies, 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 of 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 & PROFESSIONAL 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).

This position requires candidates to undergo a DBS check as part of the application process.