Lecturer in Computing

Job Title: Lecturer in Computing

School/Function: School of Higher Education

Responsible to: Programme Leader/Head of School

Responsible for: Teaching on their specialist subject to students

Job Description:

Overall Purpose:

The role of Computing Lecturer in the School will be required to design, develop, and produce learning and teaching material and deliver either across a range of modules or within a subject area. The role will be face to face and has responsibility for ensuring that the students undertaking a specific module or unit engage with the module, fulfil their potential in terms of achievement of learning outcomes and enjoy a high quality student experience. In addition, a lecturer may work more across a programme to support students in their learning journey.

Specific duties and responsibilities

Teaching and Learning

The post holder will:

Teach a set number of sessions each week, including lecturers, seminars, 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 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 how to improve 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

The post holder will:

Set assessments for students and ensure there is a 90+% submissions 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 standardisation 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

The post holder will:

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

Person Specification

Experience and Personal Qualities:

Essential:

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 prioritie