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

Regent College London

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Job description

Job title SENIOR LECTURER

School/Function School of Higher Education

Responsible to Programme Leader / Head of School

supporting a designated group of students to succeed at Regent College

JOB DESCRIPTION

Overall purpose

The Senior Lecturer is a crucial postholder in our academic management structure with the specific responsibility of ensuring that a designated group of students take maximum advantage of the opportunities on offer at Regent College London and fulfil their potential.

The role encompasses the full job description of the Lecturer role, plus the academic and student support management responsibilities detailed below.

The post holder will be provide a combination of teaching, student support and academic management to their respective School ensuring students engage and achieve success within their taught programmes.

Specific duties and responsibilities

Academic Management
The Senior Lecturer takes on the line management responsibilities of an assigned number of Academic

Colleagues in the support of students. Within the execution of the role the post holder will

Adopt a work allocation model for their team.
Set out mechanisms to effectively report the progress of staff and students' activities to them.
Ensure that the academic process is assured and implemented in line with the policies of

RCL and awarding bodies.

Perform the required line management function for the assigned team.
Support with the staff development processes for assigned staff.
Participate in the recruitment and induction process of staff and students as required.
Mentor colleagues with less experience and advise on personal development.

Student Support
The post holder will

Be the first senior point of academic contact for a group of assigned students.
Work with the CSO, Student Finance Officer and ARWA Officer teams to support students and that support plans are available for students.
Ensure that student voice is being heard and that academic needs of students are managed.
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

Teaching
The post holder will

Have a reduced teaching load given the student support responsibility
Produce duly approved and signed off detailed Scheme of work, aimed at academic review and monitored by the PL
Be responsible for student submission in that module and must make sure 90% of students submit on time and make sure this is managed in an efficient manner.
Be responsible for achievement of each student and the KPI set up in line with RCL
Prepare a module evaluation report, and contribute as appropriate to the Annual Monitoring

Reports and Programme Evaluations.

Assessment and Marking
The post holder will

Provide students with timely and constructive formative feedback
Produce and 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, providing support where necessary.
Review all relevant module assessments ensuring they are in line with the awarding body (ies) expectations.
For each new academic year review assessments are updated as needed. (e.g., Resits, Answer

Keys, Marking Rubrics are updated)

Prepare/monitor all External Examiner / Assessment Board Reports.
Contribute to the Annual Monitoring Report

Scholarship
The postholder will

Engage with scholarship within the School ensuring the impact is evident in the classroom
Support the School in its plans and in line with the College's Scholarship Plan

Person Specification

EXPERIENCE & PERSONAL QUALITIES

Essential: _
Significant student support experience
Course management experience, namely at course and degree level. Evidence of ability to meet the teaching needs at course and degree level
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
Ability to work as a team member to enhance the quality of taught provision, increase levels of student satisfaction, improve levels of student retention, progression and employability, and support student enterprise activities.
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 stakeholde