Online Associate Lecturer - Public Health

FutureLearn Ltd; England; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative online learning platform in the UK is seeking an Associate Lecturer to deliver high-quality teaching and engage with learners. The successful candidate will design course materials and support student engagement, requiring a PhD in a relevant subject area and experience in the UK Higher Education sector. Join us to empower students in their learning journeys.

Qualifications

• Experience of teaching and learning within the UK Higher Education sector.
• Eligibility for Fellowship of AdvanceHE.
• Experience of online teaching and learning (desirable).

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality teaching for a range of courses.
• Design effective course materials and manage teaching activities.
• Support learner engagement effectively.

Skills

Teaching experience

Communication skills

Digital literacy

Team working

Education

PhD in relevant subject area

Job description

At FutureLearn, we’re passionate about the power of lifelong learning. We help learners from all over the world progress in their careers – and invest in their futures.

We truly believe that up-skilling is a worthy investment, and we hope to empower our learners to take control of their careers through personalised learning pathways – giving them progress at their fingertips.

Partnering with 260+ world-class educational partners, including prestigious universities, global brands and industry partners, we offer our 20 million-strong learner community the opportunity to discover and access flexible, high-quality online courses and degrees.

We’re not here just to teach new skills (although we do that well), we want to help transform lives. FutureLearn is looking to build our teams with people who share our passion for lifelong learning, career empowerment and education for all. If that sounds like you, get in touch. You could help us achieve our biggest goal yet – becoming the world’s best AI-powered, career-based learning platform and OPM.

What is the opportunity?

The Associate Lecturer will deliver high quality teaching for a range of courses and programmes. They will design effective course materials, manage their teaching activities, support learner engagement.

What does success look like :

• Designing teaching material and teaching on a range of programmes.
• Ensuring that the content, methods of delivery and learning materials meet the programme and module learning objectives.
• Using appropriate teaching, learning and assessment methods.
• Demonstrating and promoting high levels of digital literacy with teaching and resource methods and approaches.
• Setting, marking, and giving feedback on assessments in accordance with FutureLearn / Partner policies and procedures.
• Supervising learners' work and projects and providing advice on study and research skills.
• Understanding the needs of individual learners and their circumstances. Refer students as appropriate to services providing further help.
• Contributing to the quality assurance process.
• Contributing to the planning of teaching modules through effective module ownership and standardisation.
• Planning and managing own teaching and tutorials as agreed with subject leaders.
• Maintaining records and materials in support of teaching activities and interventions with learners.
• Making effective use of learner analytics and to provide timely interventions to keep learners on track.
• Attending and contributing to relevant meetings.
• Completing mandatory training within the first three months

What you will bring to the table :

• A PhD within a relevant subject area.
• Experience of teaching and learning within the UK Higher Education sector.
• Experience of teaching within the specific subject area.
• Eligibility for Fellowship of AdvanceHE.
• Excellent team working and communication skills.
• A passion and commitment for supporting students to succeed.

Desirable

• Experience of online teaching and learning.
• Experience of dissertation / research project supervision.
• Industry experience.

What happens next?

Ready to go for it? Click 'Apply', include your CV and tell us why you'd like to become a FutureLearner, and how you’ll nail this role.

Recruitment Process

Please contact [e-mail] if you require any reasonable adjustments or alterations to be made to support you through the recruitment process.

Diversity Statement

We value all the great benefits that diversity brings and encourage everyone to bring their whole self to work – At FutureLearn we are proud to have Diversity and Inclusion at the centre of everything we do. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity regardless of race, colour, national origin, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion.

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