Senior Academic Developer - Grade 8

University of Liverpool; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Liverpool is seeking a Portfolio Lead in Academic Development to oversee a broad programme of teaching development activities across our hybrid-learning environment.

You will lead on programme leadership for accreditation and development initiatives, supervise postgraduate learning in our MA Academic Practice, and mentor staff through ULTRA fellowships, driving high-quality educational practice across campuses.

Qualifications

• Experience as an educational developer or demonstrable expertise across academic development contexts.
• Experience teaching in higher education.
• Ability to work in a hybrid learning environment.
• Ability to engage colleagues and drive change.

Responsibilities

• Lead on a key portfolio of activity across development practice.
• Deliver accredited and informal teaching development programmes.
• Mentor and assess experiential applications for ULTRA Fellowship.
• Collaborate with staff across the University to enhance teaching practice.

Skills

Educational development

Higher education teaching

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Job description

Hours of work: Full-time - 35 hours per week

Tenure: Fixed term for 18 months

Hybrid working: 2 days/week on Campus or minimum requirement of 40% on Campus, with 60% considered desirable where possible

The University of Liverpool provides an outstanding teaching and learning experience for all our students, built on research-connected education and a focus on enquiry-based learning. Our impactful research is “life changing and world shaping”, and we continue to develop as a connected, global University with multiple physical and virtual campuses, enabling a genuinely worldwide influence and impact. We work hard to offer a consistently high-quality academic environment in which we educate well-rounded, enquiring global citizens who connect and engage with the world's most pressing challenges.

At the University of Liverpool, we endeavour to provide highly effective development opportunities for staff in roles and at each stage of their career. To this end, the University has established The Academy as a central hub of development support and expertise for staff, with a remit covering the development of education, research, leadership, and professional practice. At the core of this provision is the work of the Academic Development Team, a group of specialists with responsibility for educational development across the whole institution.

Working in partnership with academic and professional colleagues from across the University, this team delivers accredited and informal teaching development programmes and opportunities focused on enhancing practice at Liverpool.

In a hybrid working environment, the successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to lead on a key portfolio of activity, with the freedom to innovate and develop our work in support of the University's strategic educational objectives. The advertised Portfolio Lead works across the whole range of development activity engaging in the latest thinking and driving forward cutting-edge teaching practice including:

• Programme leadership - teaching, assessment, quality enhancement and quality assurance processes: for example, Foundations of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (FLTHE, D1), Postgraduate Certificate Academic Practice (PGCAP, D2), University of Liverpool Teaching and Recognition Accreditation (ULTRA, D1-4).
• Contribution to teaching and supporting learning across all programmes including the supervision of postgraduate research in our MA Academic Practice programme.
• Mentoring and assessing experiential applications for Fellowship through our ULTRA programme (accredited for D1-4).

As a candidate for this post, you will be an experienced educational developer or be able to demonstrate a high level of expertise in working across a range of academic development contexts to enhance practice in a hybrid learning environment. You will have experience of teaching within higher education and a sensitivity to the challenges and opportunities of differing disciplinary contexts and modes of learning. You will have the drive and enthusiasm to work with staff from across the University, able to engage colleagues and inspire positive change. You may have expertise of teaching and learning within a specific discipline or in-depth knowledge of elements of educational development. You will be fully invested in the positive impact of high-quality development and seek to maximise opportunities for staff to access support.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to enhancing a workforce as diverse as our community and particularly encourage applicants who are of minoritised genders and ethnic backgrounds, living with a disability, and/or are members of the LGBTQIA+ community.