Job Description
Job title: Senior Lecturer
School/Function: School of Higher Education
Responsible to: Programme Leader / Head of School
Responsible for: supporting a designated group of students to succeed at Regent College London and contributes to the successful design, delivery and development of curricula within the subject area.
Hours of work: Your required hours of work are 40 hours per week. The business operations are Mon-Thurs, 9am - 9pm and Fri - Sun, 9am - 6pm
Location: Must be flexible to work across all campuses, Holborn, Great Titchfield St, Wembley, Kingsbury and Southall
Salary: Competitive per annum in line with Market rates
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Overall purpose
The Senior Lecturer is a crucial postholder in our academic management structure with the specific responsibility of ensuring that a designated group of students take maximum advantage of the opportunities on offer at Regent College London and fulfil their potential.
The role encompasses the full job description of the Lecturer role, plus the academic and student support management responsibilities detailed below. The post holder will be provide a combination of teaching, student support and academic management to their respective School ensuring students engage and achieve success within their taught programmes.
Specific duties and responsibilities
Academic Management
The Senior Lecturer takes on the line management responsibilities of an assigned number of Academic Colleagues in the support of students. Within the execution of the role the post holder will
- Adopt a work allocation model for their team.
- Set out mechanisms to effectively report the progress of staff and students’ activities to them.
- Ensure that the academic process is assured and implemented in line with the policies of RCL and awarding bodies.
- Perform the required line management function for the assigned team.
- Support with the staff development processes for assigned staff.
- Participate in the recruitment and induction process of staff and students as required.
- Mentor colleagues with less experience and advise on personal development.
Student Support
The post holder will
- Be the first senior point of academic contact for a group of assigned students.
- Work with the CSO, Student Finance Officer and ARWA Officer teams to support students and that support plans are available for students.
- Ensure that student voice is being heard and that academic needs of students are managed.
- 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
Teaching
The post holder will
- Have a reduced teaching load given the student support responsibility
- Design teaching material and deliver either across a range of modules or within a subject area.
- Produce duly approved and signed off detailed Scheme of work, aimed at academic review and monitored by the PL
- Be responsible for student submission in that module and must make sure 90% of students submit on time and make sure this is managed in an efficient manner.
- Be responsible for achievement of each student and the KPI set up in line with RCL
- Prepare a module evaluation report, and contribute as appropriate to the Annual Monitoring Reports and Programme Evaluations.
Assessment and Marking
The post holder will
- Provide students with timely and constructive formative feedback
- Produce and 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, providing support where necessary.
- Review all relevant module assessments ensuring they are in line with the awarding body (ies) expectations.
- For each new academic year – review assessments are updated as needed. (e.g., Resits, Answer Keys, Marking Rubrics are updated)
- Prepare/monitor all External Examiner / Assessment Board Reports.
- Contribute to the Annual Monitoring Report
Scholarship
The postholder will
- Engage with scholarship within the School ensuring the impact is evident in the classroom
- Support the School in its plans and in line with the College’s Scholarship Plan