Lecturer in Sports Science - London, United Kingdom - Regent College London

Regent College London

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Description

Job Title:
Lecturer in Sports Science

Company:
Regent College London

Salary:
up to a maximum amount of £45k per annum

Reports to:
Head of School / Programme Leader

Hours of work Your required hours of work are 40 hours per week. The business operations are Mon-Thurs, 9am - 9pm and Fri - Sun, 9am - 6pm

Location:
Must be flexible to work across all campuses, Holborn, Wembley, Kingsbury and Southall

Regent College London (RCL) is a leading independent higher education provider, delivering flexibility, choice, and innovation to our students.

We have a Central London campus and multiple study centres around London, with an international reach through our online delivery modes.

We are a diverse community that promotes learning, personal development, and achievement with an established record of success.

We pride ourselves on our student-centred service which is reflected in our students' 93% satisfaction rating in the 2022 National Student Survey.

Overall purpose

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 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 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

Quality assurance
The post holder will

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.

Scholarship
The post holder will

Engage in scholarship as required to support teaching activities and continually update knowledge.
Support the School in its plans and in line with the College's Scholarship Plan

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 organisation 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).

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