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
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.
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.
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