Flexible Lecturing, Research and Teaching Assistant Opportunities
Visiting Lecturers
Our visiting lecturers are typically people seeking to combine teaching with other career responsibilities and interests. They will usually be either an experienced industry professional / entrepreneur with a passion for teaching or an academic committed to working in an environment where underpinning knowledge and understanding has a high degree of applicability to real-world contexts. We are committed to providing an exceptional learning experience for all of our students and the role of visiting lecturers is central to how we deliver this. In addition to teaching hours, we can offer additional remuneration for personal tutor responsibilities, editing of learning resources, assignment marking and participation in assessment boards. You will also be expected to participate in organisational-wide training and CPD initiatives (including FHEA recognition) and to maintain the currency of your subject-specialist knowledge.
Qualifications and Experience Required
For lecturers with an industry / entrepreneurship-focused background:
– A masters-level qualification (Level 7);
– Participation in professional networks / established relationships with employers;
– Significant professional experience of industry / enterprise such that you can speak authoritatively about both the theory and realities of the workplace;
– Willingness to undertake the necessary professional development to obtain FHEA status.
For lecturers with an academic background:
– A doctoral-level qualification (Level 8);
– Participation in relevant academic networks;
– FHEA status (or sufficient experience to enable submission of a portfolio of evidence to obtain FHEA status within a 12-month period);
– Evidence of teaching and research that is grounded in the realities of the workplace.
Research / Teaching Assistants
Our research / teaching assistants play an important role in curating and developing learning content and resources that underpin and enhance classroom-based and online teaching. Our pedagogical approach (our approach to learning and teaching) is based on a flipped classroom model in which students are provided with high quality learning materials, including audio-visual content, textbook-style study guides, annotated bibliographies and pdf readers, which are produced by our team of subject-specialist research and teaching assistants. Our research / teaching assistants often combine research work with other academic interests, including postgraduate study. Each research / teaching assistant is allocated to specific modules/units of study and responsibilities include some participation in classes (whether face-to-face or online).
What we offer
Remuneration: Competitive hourly rates. Further hourly remuneration is also available for participation in meetings and training/CPD events and undertaking additional tasks such as assessment drafting, second marking or admissions events.
Hours per week: Variable, dependent upon the number of modules/units being taught / developed.
Work location: For online modules/units, remote-working is possible. Face-to-face classes are based in London.
Contract type: Freelance, based on contracted modules/units each academic year. Please note: Our freelance positions do not carry employment status.
Pedagogical Approach
It is important to us that our teaching / academic staff fully embrace our pedagogical approach as a learning organisation, so please consider this before applying:
Technology and innovation is embedded within everything that we do. We are constantly innovating and seeking to enhance how we teach and support students’ learning, based on the latest education research and our own self-evaluation and experimentation as a learning organisation. We are committed to exploring and using the latest education technology in the teaching and learning we provide and to embedding digital skills throughout all of our programmes, with the aim of constantly enhancing both individual learning opportunities and the wider student experience.
We aim to be a community of learning – and recognise the need for all of us to be lifelong learners (however many academic qualifications we may have), and we want to model the qualities of innovative thinking, experimentation and embracing technological change for our students, recognising that these are exactly the kinds of qualities they will need to ride the waves of technological and societal change that are already with us and those that are yet to come.
Please also note that our lectures and online classes are recorded and that both programme design and the development of learning content are always for us collaborative activities and very much team-orientated – involving programme leaders, tutors, research assistants and learning technologists.
Next steps
For further information or to apply please send a copy of your CV and covering letter to hr@cpdlearning.online