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Role Description

Faculty/Service: Health and Life Sciences

Job Title: Senior Lecturer / Lecturer in Physical Chemistry

Grade: 6 / 7

Category: Academic

Responsible to: Head of Department or nominee

1.  Role purpose:

·  To enhance the overall work of the Faculty, through contribution to delivery, curriculum development, programme management and development, research and enterprise activity in the Department of Applied Sciences

·  To provide the Department with further expertise in the area of computational chemistry

2.  Key Responsibilities:

Learning and Teaching

·  Deliver learning and teaching activities across a range of modules or within a subject discipline

·  Set, deliver and assess work and examinations, providing feedback to students

·  Design, plan, develop and review teaching activities and materials, using innovative teaching, learning support and assessment methods

·  Identify learning needs of students and define appropriate learning objectives

·  Ensure that content, currency and methods of delivery and learning materials will meet the defined learning objectives and are in line with the professional body accreditation

·  Supervise student projects and, where appropriate, field trips and placements

·  Supervise doctoral students as principal and co-supervisor

Research and Development

·  Develop and implement a personal research and innovation plan

·  Individually and collaboratively engage in subject, professional and pedagogy research as required to support teaching activities

·  Identify sources of funding and contribute to the process of securing funds for own research or scholarly activities

·  Extend, transform and apply knowledge acquired from scholarship to inform teaching, research and appropriate external activities

·  Develop and produce learning materials and disseminate the results of research and scholarly activity

·  Write or contribute to publications or disseminate research findings using other appropriate media

·  Make presentations at conferences or exhibit work in other appropriate events

Enterprise and Engagement

·  Develop ideas for generating income and promoting the subject

·  Participate in and develop external networks to enhance the reputation of the University and build relationships for future activities

·  Develop with others, the Faculty’s work on training courses, consultancy activity and patents

Role Specific

·  Engage with other members of the Department, Faculty and University in recruitment activities

·  Engage in activities associated with enhancing the student experience

Other academic duties

·  (SL) Mentor colleagues with less experience and advise on personal development

·  (SL) Act as a module tutor and/or programme leader, (SL) co-ordinating the work of colleagues to ensure modules/programmes are delivered to the standards required, (L) Act as a module tutor, work with colleagues to ensure modules/programmes are delivered to the standards required

·  Be responsible for the pastoral care of students within a specified area

·  Contribute to the accreditation of programmes and quality control processes

·  Be responsible for administrative duties in areas such as admissions, student placement, time-tabling, examinations, assessment of progress and student attendance as appropriate to grade

3.  Location:

This post is based at the University’s City campus and the successful candidate will be based in an appropriate office, with requisite to work from and / or travel to other University premises and external organisations as required.

Some national and international travel to academic partners and corporate clients in relation to programmes, awards, consultancy and / or other activities appropriate to the nature of the post may be required.

4.  Attendance Requirements:

The post requires attendance at the University’s teaching sites for as many hours as is reasonable for the effective discharge of the duties of the post, within a normal working week of 37 hours. A typical workload may include weekday evening classes and exceptionally, weekend work (e.g. open days).

5.  Additional Information:

If you are not currently a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, you will be required to gain Fellowship before your probationary period will be confirmed as completed.

References

Contact with your present or most recent employer will be made if you are offered the position. Please complete the relevant section in the application form.

DBS

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, therefore the successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring (DBS) check.


Person Specification

Faculty/Service: Health and Life Sciences

Job Title: Senior Lecturer / Lecturer in Physical Chemistry

Grade: 6 / 7

L E/D
E/D / SL
E/D / A/I
Specific Knowledge
1 Relevant specialist knowledge and subject expertise in physical chemistry gained from research activity, professional practice or enterprise (consultancy) / E / E / A/I
2 An ability to teach through the standard academic practice of lectures, seminars and practical sessions / E / E / A/I
3 A good understanding of quality issues in Higher Education and of effective QA and pedagogic issues. / E / E / A/I
Skills and Abilities
4 Ability to develop and deliver a programme of high quality, student centred education / E / E / A/I
5 Ability to conduct research and produce high quality academic outputs which will contribute to the Faculty Research and Innovation strategy / E / E / A/I
6 Ability to identify and engage in external activities to build networks and collaborative partnerships / E / E / A/I
7 Ability to communicate complex and conceptual ideas clearly and effectively to a range of audiences, via a range of appropriate media including an electronic learning platform / E / E / A/I
8 Ability to engage with and respond enthusiastically and positively to students at undergraduate and post graduate level / E / E / A/I
9 Ability to plan, manage and administer resources (e.g. people, finance, equipment) / E / E / A/I
10 Ability to use initiative, solve problems and make sound decisions / E / E / A/I
11 Able to participate effectively within teams, developing productive working relationships and leading the team where required, demonstrating departmental citizenship. / E / E / A/I
12 Competent in the use of a range of IT resources / E / E / A/I
Experience
13 (SL) Demonstrable success in the design, delivery, assessment and evaluation of high quality teaching and learning practice, including small and large group teaching and project supervision/ (L) Demonstrable success in the delivery of high quality teaching and learning practice, including small and large group teaching / E / E / A/I
14 (SL) Evidence of success in undertaking and applying high quality research which will contribute to both teaching and learning and research excellence / E / E / A/I
15 (SL) Evidence of regular and high quality published research outputs / (L) evidence of a developing high quality publication record for the discipline / E / E / A/I
16 (SL) Evidence of a developing national reputation / (L) potential to develop a national reputation through winning grant and research contract awards, conference contribution and high quality publication record. / E / E / A/I
17 Evidence of external engagement and / or generating income / D / E / A/I
18 (SL) Proven experience of successfully leading / supervising staff or projects / N/A / E / A/I
Education/Training
19 Qualified to degree level in relevant discipline / E / E / A
20 Either qualified (SL) or soon to be qualified (L) to Doctoral level in a relevant subject / E / E / A
21 Possession of a recognised teaching qualification or equivalent teaching experience. / D / E / A
22 Higher Education Academy Fellowship / D / D / A
23 Membership of the Royal Society of Chemistry / D / D / A

Legend:

E = Essential A = Application Form

D = Desirable I = Interview