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Birmingham Business School

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,130 to £45,413 with potential progression once in post to £48,149

Grade: 7

Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to August 2026

Closing date: 30th September 2025

Background

As part of the MSc/Level 7 Apprenticeship in Systems Thinking and Leadership Practitioner programme team, you will be supporting students to embed their learning in the workplace through work-based applications as part of the established taught MSc and apprenticeship programme managed by the Programme Director.

You will evidence a track record of experience and research relevant to systems thinking, in diverse domains such as organizational management, leadership, healthcare, food systems or climate change.

You will contribute to the development of the apprenticeship, including a range of education-and employer engagement related activities and the integration of the apprenticeship with the wider MSc programme. In addition, you will be expected to demonstrate academic citizenship, developing, and maintaining mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with all staff and students, and ensuring the way you carry out your role impacts positively on how others carry out theirs.

You will be expected to, with the support of the Programme Director and wider faculty, develop learning practice in the apprenticeship, contributing to teaching and the development of the overall programme within the Birmingham Leadership Institute (BLI), and also play an important role in student academic and pastoral support.You will deliver excellent mentoring that inspires students and is informed by practice and discipline-based research.

Role Summary

• Mentoring and Teaching within own subject area within an established teaching and apprenticeship programme (under the supervision from an academic member of staff).

• Contribute to the development of the apprenticeship programme including: a) contribute to enhancement of the student experience or employability; b) contribute to designing CPD programmes for clients external to the University and similar;c) contribute to deliver CPD programmes, consulting on own specialism and the like, often under the supervision of a project leader.

• Contribute to licensing or spin out deals with demonstrated commercial success (such as revenues, asset or company sales, IP generated) and/or public understanding of the discipline or similar.

Main Duties

• Mentoring and teaching at a range of levels within the apprenticeship and systems thinking and practiceand within own area of subject and with postgraduates and CPD students, predominantly through allocated individualand group seminars, as well as lectures and contributing to online material, so that the Department and School’s teaching objectives are met.

• Contribute to the development of modules and teaching resources with other colleagues.

• Plan and prepare own teaching and mentoring, including guidance notes and handouts in accordance with the established objectives of the teaching and mentoring programme.

• Devise and supervise projects, student portfolios, dissertations and practical work.

• Develop an approach to planning and reviewing own mentoring and teaching.

• Undertake full range of responsibilities in relation to supervision, marking and examining and supporting the development of student portfolio’s and preparing them for their end point assessment. (Summative assessment, including assessed work contributing to the final award – as a mark or as a credit – such as unseen examinations, essays, dissertations or presentations, is subject to validation by the academic supervisor).

• Frequently update subject expertise.

• Undertake personal professional development in teaching and mentoring, including self-reflection on own teaching and practice, using student and peer review feedback, to enhance own teaching, mentoring and learning processes.

• Contribute to knowledge transfer on own specialism that is of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader.

• Undertake management/administration arising from mentoring and teaching and compliance within the apprenticeship.

• Contribute to Departmental/School teaching-related activities and teaching-related administration.

• Contribute to enterprise, business development and/or public engagement activities of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader.

• Promotes equality and values diversity acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture.

Person Specification

• Higher degree relevant to systems thinking and practice or equivalent qualifications

• High level of practice or work-based experience in systems thinking or relevant field

• Ability to mentor, design and deliver teaching, resources and support materials and initiativesto part time, work based learners with limited time and resources

• Ability to assess and organise resources effectively

• Ability to work collaboratively, as part of a team to support the student learning journey across the combined routes of the MSc and the Apprenticeship

• Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes particularly in relationship to a work based apprenticeship programme

• Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day to day activity in own area that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly.

Informal enquiries to BLI general inquiries on bli@contacts.bham.ac.uk and the Programme Director, Dr Rachel Lilley, R.lilley@bham.ac.uk.

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