Computer Specialist

JR United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

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• Hours are 9am – 9pm Monday – Thursday, Friday – Sunday 9am – 6pm. Expected to work 40 hours per week, 8 hours per day over 5 days, with two days off per week.
• Classes normally start 10am – 1pm, 2pm – 5pm, and 6pm – 9pm (for evenings) – can be allocated two classes per day. Timetable is for a 15-week period, each module is 3 hours per week.
• 18 hours per week of teaching – anything beyond this up to 40 hours over 5 days will cover lessons, marking, assessment, pastoral care, and any additional responsibilities related to resource development.

Salary: 40-45k per annum

Requirements:

• MA or MSc with 2 years minimum UK HE teaching experience and teaching qualification (PGcert, HEA fellowships, PGCE, etc.) and/or
• MA or MSc and 5 years UK HE teaching experience and/or
• PhD in the relevant field and minimum 2 years UK HE teaching experience.

NO sponsorship requirements

JOB DESCRIPTION

Overall purpose: The role of a Computing Lecturer in the School will be required to design, develop, and produce learning and teaching materials and deliver either across a range of modules or within a subject area. The role will be hybrid (face-to-face or online) and has responsibility for ensuring that the students undertaking a specific module or unit engage with the module, fulfill 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, and 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.
• Develop teaching materials for modules.
• Update class notes and other materials and ensure that the VLE is regularly updated.
• Make suggestions through appropriate channels on how to improve the student academic experience.
• Identify the need for developing the content or structure of modules with colleagues and make proposals on how this should be achieved.

Assessment and Marking:

• Set assessments for students and ensure there is a 90+% submission rate of 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 standardization 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.

Quality assurance:

• Provide a module evaluation 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.

Managing people and resources:

• As module leader (if allocated), coordinate with others (such as support staff or academic colleagues) to ensure student needs and expectations are met.
• Manage projects relating to own area of work and the organization of external activities such as placements and field trips.
• Coordinate the work of others (e.g., Associate lecturers) to ensure modules are delivered to the standards required.
• Exercise responsibility for the design and delivery of own modules and assessment methods considering established or agreed practice where necessary.
• Support the student recruitment and marketing teams as appropriate (e.g., academic interviews).
• Tackle issues affecting the quality of delivery within scope of own level of responsibility, referring more serious matters to Programme Leader (or others as appropriate).

Person Specification:

EXPERIENCE & PERSONAL QUALITIES:

• Experience or knowledge of quality assurance and validation of HE modules/programmes.
• Experience or knowledge of higher education and ability to use a range of delivery techniques to inspire and engage students.
• Significant experience within a subject area relevant to the School.
• Positive attitude to colleagues and students.
• Communicate information effectively, both verbally and in writing, engaging the interest and enthusiasm of the target audience.
• Ability to influence, collaborate and interact effectively with a range of stakeholders including staff (at all levels), students, and others.
• Ability to provide expert guidance to students and other work areas and to develop understanding and resolve complex problems.
• Ability to achieve key performance indicators through persuasion and negotiation where no direct authority exists.
• Ability to respond and adapt with agility to often rapidly moving events and developments in both the school and College.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including networking and relationship building skills, both across the University and externally.
• Able to demonstrate both independent self-management and team working.
• Able to work with competing priorities and to tight deadlines.
• Demonstrates competencies, core behaviours, and supplementary behaviours that support and promote the University’s core values.
• Flexible to the needs of others.
• Innovative and creative.
• 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:

• An appropriate level of digital capability and aptitude with practical experience of applications which aid student learning.
• Ability to communicate complex and conceptual ideas to a range of groups.
• Proficient in using IT to support own work and for application to technology-enhanced learning/teaching and research activities.
• Committed to a high-performance culture, fostering continuous improvement and driving quality.
• Knowledge of higher education and ability to use a range of delivery techniques to enthuse and engage students.

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Fellowship of the Advanced Higher Education (HEA) or willingness to work towards (within 12 months).
• Sufficient breadth and depth of specialist knowledge in the discipline to develop teaching programmes and the provision of learning support.
• Experience of teaching, curriculum development, and quality management and enhancement in an HE environment.
• Appropriate digital skills in learning, teaching, and assessment.

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Created on 13/04/2025 by JR United Kingdom