Visiting Lecturer in English

Job title: Associate Lecturer

School/Function: School of Higher Education

Responsible to: Programme Leader/ Head of Department

Responsible for: Delivering classroom teaching and marking student work.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Overall purpose

The role of Associate Lecturer in the School will be required to deliver a range of content 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 lectures, 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
• Ensure teaching materials are adjust for their learners in the classroom.
• 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 support students to submit 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 Completion 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.
• Attend relevant meetings as required.
• Ensure all marking is completed on time and appropriate formative and summative feedback in line with our partners’ guidelines and operational manuals is provided to students.

Scholarship

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