Visiting Lecturer in Computing

Job title: Associate Lecturer

School/Function: School of Higher Education

Responsible to: Programme Leader / Dean of School

Responsible for: Delivering classroom teaching and marking student work.

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

• 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 adjusted 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 on how to improve student academic experience.

Assessment and Marking

• 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

• 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 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.

EXPERIENCE & PERSONAL QUALITIES

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.

Job Type: Fixed term contract

Pay: £1,500.00-£2,500.00 per month

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

• London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• Do you have a teaching qualification for example a PGCE or from the Higher Education Academy?

Education:

• Master's (required)

Experience:

• Higher Education Teaching: 2 years (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Location:

• London (required)

Work Location: In person