Visiting Lecturer in Computing

Job title: Associate Lecturer

School/Function: School of Higher Education

Responsible to: Programme Leader / Head of School

Responsible for: Designing teaching materials, delivering classroom teaching and marking student work

Overall purpose The role of Associate 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 s/he will have 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

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 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 how to improve student academic experience.

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.

Quality assurance

The post holder will

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

Scholarship

Participate in scholarship and training activities as offered by the College I support of teaching and learning.

Essential:

• Experience of teaching, curriculum development and quality management and enhancement in an HE environment;
• Evidence of excellent teaching identified by peer review;
• Evidence of a positive impact at discipline programme level beyond own teaching;
• Understand equal opportunity issues as they may impact on academic content and issues relating to student need;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; Able to communicate complex and conceptual ideas to a range of groups;. Able to demonstrate independent and self-managing working styles;
• Able to undertake duties at different premises including any campus within London as required.

Desirable:

• Relevant industrial experience;
• Experience of research and enterprise activity;
• Evidence 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:

• Sufficient breadth and depth of specialist knowledge in the discipline to develop teaching programmes and the provision of learning support;
• In-depth understanding of own specialism to enable the development of new knowledge and understanding within the field;
• Competent in technologies and software programmes/ packages that are relevant to the subject area including various VLE Platforms;
• Excellent general IT skills including MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Teams, and its applications.

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 a relevant subject area;
• Eligible for Fellow status under the Advanced Higher Education Professional Standards.
• Appropriate digital skills in learning, teaching and assessment

Desirable:

• Teaching qualification or preparedness to work towards;
• PhD in relevant subject area;
• Alternatively, ability to demonstrate equivalent core knowledge and expertise gained from leading edge practice will be considered in some circumstances;
• Membership of appropriate professional institution.

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

Regent College reserves the right to close the vacancy earlier than the published end date should it receive sufficient applications to warrant earlier shortlisting.

Regent College is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive working environment where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities, and in particular those that are currently under represented in our workforce. This includes, but is not limited to, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, candidates with disabilities, and female candidates.

The end result of education is character.

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