Senior Teaching Fellow - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Grade 8 - £54,395

CMVM / R(D)SVS / GAAFS

Part Time Hours Per Week
**Contract Type - Fixed Term - 1 Year

This role offers an exciting opportunity to join the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems as a 0.5FTE Senior Teaching Fellow (Innovation).

The post holder will work with the Lecturer in Innovation in the Life Sciences to deliver taught postgraduate courses, including 'Making Science Relevant to Policy and Decision Making and Innovation in Sustainable Food Systems'.

We are open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.

The Opportunity:

The post holder will deliver teaching, supervision and assessment for taught postgraduate courses in collaboration with lead academic staff, and optimize the use of existing courses as core or elective components of other programmes.

They will contribute to a series of Edinburgh Learning Design Roadmap (ELDeR) workshops to refine the structure and content of new courses.

An important component will be to help develop proposals for new courses, including contributions to market research, competitor analysis etc., and to ensure they fit within School aims and with School/College procedures.

Your skills and attributes for success:

Experience in course design in at least one area relevant to the new programmes
Experience in teaching in at least one area relevant to the new programmes
Excellent communication skills
Excellent information technology skills Ability to interact effectively with a wide range of colleagues

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.

You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme
, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more.

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The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education.

We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK.

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On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role.

International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

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