Department: Queen Mary AcademySalary: £42,405 - £49,785 per annum (Grade 5)Reference: 1000Location: Department W, 81 Mile End RoadDate posted: 16 April 2024Closing date: 17 May 2024
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About the Role
Are you committed to empowering and supporting educators in higher education? Do you have experience in the design and delivery of educational development for academic staff? Are you looking for a new and exciting role where you can develop your career? If so, join us at Queen Mary Academy and help us to achieve our ambition to deliver an outstanding, inclusive, world-class education and student experience.
We're looking for a skilled education specialist with the ability to engage a range of audiences to join the Queen Mary Academy.
You’ll play a key role in the delivery of the Queen Mary Academy’s university-wide development portfolio. Reporting to our Academic Practice and Enhancement Manager you’ll contribute to a wide range of activities, including delivery of our Certificate in Learning and Teaching (CILT) and Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) and the design and delivery of exciting and engaging courses and workshops.
You will also contribute to a range of key strategic initiatives which are fundamental to delivering Queen Mary’s 2030 Strategy.
Your role will evolve as the Academy’s work develops, so to succeed you will need to demonstrate a flexible and agile approach.
This is an exciting time to join the Queen Mary Academy, as we develop our provision and work to support Queen Mary’s ambitious 2030 Strategy.
About You You will have experience in the design, delivery and co-ordination of an educational development portfolio for academic staff, with experience of teaching in higher education, including small and large group teaching, face to face and online.
You’ll also have experience of delivering provision which meets institutional need and strategy.
You will be knowledgeable about effective pedagogy in higher education, with a significant understanding of the UK higher education landscape.
We’re looking for a strong communicator, who can build strong relationships with colleagues and engage a range of audiences across a range of platforms, conveying key messages in an engaging and clear manner.
About the Academy The Queen Mary Academy is a flagship department at Queen Mary University of London. It provides academic practice development for academic staff, teaching staff, research staff, and research students. Guided by the University’s 2030 Strategy and associated enabling plans, the Academy delivers development programmes that enable the delivery of an inclusive educational environment where students and staff flourish and reach their true potential. The Academy offers development opportunities to academic, teaching staff, research staff and research students at all stages of their career, from teaching assistants through to the professoriate.
Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.
Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.
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