Description:
As University Teacher you will play a key role in contributing to, and maintaining, the School’s portfolio of research led, high-quality, teaching. You will be expected to provide face-to-face and remote lectures and seminars to campus-based and distance-learning students, and to produce and mark assessments on core and optional modules across our Librarianship and Library and Information Services Management (LISM) MA programmes, including :
- Management for Library and Information Services; Information Organisation; Leadership Strategy and Change; Academic and Workplace Library, Information and Knowledge Services; Libraries, Information and Society; and Personal and Professional Development
- You will also carry out supervision of Masters dissertation projects.
Main Duties And Responsibilities
- Design, deliver, assess, and evaluate campus based and distance-learning teaching on Librarianship and LISM programmes. This will include identifying learning objectives, selecting appropriate curricula and teaching methods.
- Prepare and implement student assessments, which will include designing assessment criteria, marking and ensuring adequate moderation.
- Undertake academic tutor/pastoral responsibilities for postgraduate students.
- Carry out module and course evaluation, including facilitating student feedback; reflecting on own teaching design and delivery; and implementing ideas for improving own performance.
- Conduct personal scholarship; identifying literature and updating own knowledge; assessing the validity of the literature and its contribution to the development of own field as well as developments in practice in your area of expertise.
- Contribute to the operations of the School, the Faculty and the wider University community through administrative responsibilities and committee memberships as and when appropriate.
- Ensure digital accessibility of teaching materials by ensuring that content, activities and all their components are accessible to all, in order to remove barriers to learning.
- As a member of staff you will be encouraged to make ethical decisions in your role, embedding the University’s Sustainability strategy into your working activities wherever possible.
- Carry out other duties, commensurate with the grade and remit of the post