Job Title: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing
Location: London (Canary Wharf and/or Borough)
Salary: £39K - £44K per annum (Lecturer), £45K - £50K per annum (Senior Lecturer)
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing to join our team at Victoria College of Arts and Design. As a key member of our academic staff, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality teaching, mentoring, and academic support to our students.
Key Responsibilities
- Teaching and Module Delivery:
- Plan, develop, and deliver high-quality lectures, seminars, tutorials, and workshops for assigned modules.
- Utilise a range of best-practice teaching methods to support various learning styles, fostering engagement and inclusivity.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of subject areas, ensuring course content is relevant, current, and aligned with contemporary industry practice and research insight.
- Assessment and Feedback:
- Design, manage, and assess formative and summative coursework assignments, ensuring flexibility, fairness, transparency, and relevance.
- Provide succinct, constructive, coherent, and timely feedback to students, using written, recorded, or video media, designed to aid students in their academic reflection, progress, and development of core skills.
- Ensure that grading and feedback are in line with best practice and standards across the English Higher Education sector.
- Student Support and Guidance:
- Act as an academic advisor and mentor to students, providing guidance on academic matters and supporting their professional aspirations.
- Organise and participate in student engagement activities and additional, non-curricular, learning and academic integrity support sessions.
- Address individual student needs, such as reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities, and refer to appropriate support services as necessary.
- Curriculum and Module Development:
- Work collaboratively with faculty, management, students, and external stakeholders to develop, modify, and enhance curricula so that it always reflects contemporary industry and academic trends.
- As appropriate, devise, design, manage, and deliver the continuous improvement of teaching resources, such as updating reading lists, case studies, practical equipment, practical exercises, and online learning content.
- Participate, as appropriate and when requested, in all Academic Development Committees, including curriculum review committees, considering such things as the development of new and revised programmes.
- Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement:
- Adhere to all VCAD and Partner institution policies, procedures, and quality assurance standards.
- Engage in peer review processes to improve and share good practices across teaching methods.
- Participate in teaching observation and evaluation processes to ensure good quality support, development, and enhancement of teaching practice across faculty.
- Professional Development:
- Participate in professional development activities, keeping abreast of innovations and developments within the field of higher education teaching and learning and regulatory requirements.
- Administrative and Departmental Responsibilities:
- Undertake, as required, administrative duties related to teaching, timetable management, module coordination, course management, marking, grading, and other associated administrative tasks concerned with the efficient running of the Board, as well as any other appropriate duties reasonably requested by your line manager, including attendance and participation in departmental meetings.
- Actively contribute to departmental goals and participate in activities such as open days, student recruitment, induction events, knowledge transfer, and other outreach work.
- Support VCAD initiatives, such as diversity and inclusion efforts, digital learning, and community collaboration.
- Staff Management Responsibilities:
- Holders of any Lecturer post will have line management responsibilities as per their various and occasional non-substantive role, such as module or programme leader. These roles will be recognised through such procedures as remission of teaching hours or honorarium payments and will be reasonably negotiated with the Academic Dean and VCAD Director and in keeping with established VCAD policy.
Essential qualifications and experience include a Bachelor's degree, confidence and ability to communicate complex information to a class of students, ability to utilise a range of digital platforms, particularly Microsoft Office/365, enthusiasm, knowledge, and experience in your specialist area, and willingness to work on Saturdays and Sundays.
The salary for this position is £39K - £44K per annum for a Lecturer and £45K - £50K per annum for a Senior Lecturer, depending on experience.
