Lecturer / Senior Lecturer - Sports Coaching & Physical Education

Application closing date: 23/10/2024

Salary: Lecturer, Grade 7: £37,099.00 - £41,732.00 Senior Lecturer, Grade 8: £42,978.00 - £54,395.00

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Who we’re looking for:

The School of Sport, Business and Media is seeking applications from practitioners who are passionate about physical education and sport coaching and can inspire the next generation of PE teachers and sport coaches.

The school is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic individual with a PE teaching and/or sports coaching background to inspire students across a range of courses, most notably the Sport Coaching & Physical Education degree and the BA Physical Education programme. The successful candidate will join our dynamic and research active teaching team from the Sport, Coaching and PE programme area at Plymouth Marjon University. 

The role requires you to possess industry relevant experience and qualifications, including Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), to help guide students through applied practice, professional placements and applied research projects. Possessing an excellent understanding of research informed practice is essential to ensure teaching remains consistent with sector expectations. Relevant knowledge, understanding and skill set to enable contribution to modules focused on learning through the outdoors, outdoor education and/or outdoor adventurous activities would be advantageous.

What you’d be doing:

The successful candidate will be expected to have a comprehensive understanding of teaching, either primary and/or secondary, related to physical education, physical activity and sport coaching. Expertise in sports coaching, community sport, and leadership and management would be welcome.

Responsibility to lead modules on the programmes which create positive student experiences is expected, whilst also ensuring alignment to relevant professional standards. This foundation will then lead to opportunities for students to work with local sport partners thus creating ‘real-world’ learning experiences. You will also support recruitment activities for the school through attendance at open and applicant days. You will also be expected to play an active role in research, scholarly and knowledge exchange activity.

We have links with local sports providers and schools who employ many Marjon alumni and continue to offer many excellent opportunities for our students. You will be expected to develop and maintain excellent working relationships with our partners.

You’ll need to enjoy:

• Working closely with students, academic and professional colleagues.
• Developing and maintaining a professional network of sports and teaching professionals to support learning enhancement and employability.
• Devising, developing and delivering a diverse range of teaching, learning and assessment activities aligned to the teaching and sports coaching professions, and real world applied sports practice.
• Supporting students’ professional development.
• Using a range of approaches to support student learning including digital resources.
• Working to your values: we care about how people behave as well as what they achieve.

Where you’ll work:

In this role, you’ll be part of the Sport, Coaching and PE department, on our green campus in the north of Plymouth. The University has a well-established reputation for teaching and sport and there is a thriving community and performance sports centre on site that enjoys positive working relationships with both professional and community sports clubs and organisations. There will be opportunities for you to support student learning and applied practice in this setting and through community/industry placements and activities.

Our current hybrid working policy means you can work from home or on campus, but you will be required to maintain strong campus links and be available on-site when teaching requires it.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Kelvin Kirk, Programme Lead, (Sport Coaching & Physical Education)  on kkirk@marjon.ac.uk, or Erica Eaton-Quinn, Programme Lead (Physical Education) on eeaton@marjon.ac.uk.

Supporting our people:

At Marjon, we are firmly committed to supporting every member of staff who works for us. Our Balance programme of health and wellbeing activities aims to help you to look after your physical health, nutritional health, mental health and social health.

We recognise that our recruitment might bring in staff who are new to higher education and are bringing knowledge and expertise from other fields and practice. We want to ensure that all our academic staff are appropriately qualified to teach in HE and have the confidence to do so; to support this, we offer a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) to all new teaching staff without an existing teaching qualification. This provides our new staff with an opportunity to develop their understanding and practice of learning, teaching and pedagogic research/research management in higher education, and enables us to maintain our high standards of teaching.

We’re big believers in the importance of work/life balance. Many of our employees work flexibly and they are able to apply for parental leave and time off for dependants. As well as this, Academic staff enjoy 35 days’ holiday, plus Christmas closure days and eight bank holidays. This equates to 45 (full-time equivalent) days. To view the full range of benefits we offer, please click here.

We are keen to hear from a diverse range of applicants to support our goal to realise every individual’s potential. We are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’: candidates who declare a disability and who demonstrate on their application that they meet the essential criteria will be included on the shortlist. If you are considering relocating, you can read more about Plymouth here.

Closing date: Wednesday 23 October 2024 (at 11:59pm)

Interview date: Friday 08 November 2024

How to apply

To apply for the position please complete the University's online application form.

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If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process, please contact the People Team on peopleteam@marjon.ac.uk.

It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.