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Lecturer in Taxation Education

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
Grade 7, £46,292 to £54,534, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
16 Mar 2021

Job Details

Job description

The Dickson Poon School of Law is seeking to appoint to a Lectureship an outstanding candidate with relevant teaching expertise and research interests in Tax Law and specifically international taxation. This is a post on the Academic Education Pathway, which emphasises teaching, scholarship and innovation. The primary role is to deliver high quality teaching to postgraduate students on our online International Tax Law LLM programme. The successful candidate will wish to gain further experience in a research-informed teaching role, contributing to the on-line and on-campus delivery of our Tax Law programmes at post-graduate level in particular.

An ability to contribute more widely to the core undergraduate curriculum is desirable, and the successful candidate will be encouraged to undertake public engagement activities in Tax Law.  The successful candidate will be actively involved in the administration and academic life of a world leading law school, and will carry out administrative duties in the Dickson Poon School of Law.

The successful candidate will be responsible to the Executive Dean.

The Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London is one of the oldest law schools in England and recognised globally as one of the best law schools in the world.   The School is ranked 15th in the world and 4th in the UK in the QS World University Rankings for Law 2020. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise, research in the School was rated as number one in the UK.

The Dickson Poon School of Law embraces equality, diversity and inclusion. We attract students and staff from across the world, from many different backgrounds, with a variety of ethnicities, religions, and sexual and gender identities. We promote flexible working as a key enabler of inclusion. We particularly encourage and welcome applications from women, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, and from candidates who are LGBTQ+ and/or have a disability.

The Dickson Poon School of Law is housed in the East Wing of Somerset House, a Grade One listed building, on the College's Strand Campus, no more than a few minutes' walk from the Royal Courts of Justice and Inns of Court.  We are located midway between Westminster and the City of London, enabling us to have excellent contacts with practitioners and policy-makers, and there is a strong tradition of engagement with the legal profession.

The School has a long-standing reputation for excellence in the laws of England and Wales, European, International and Transnational Law. Our research interests cover all areas of public and private law. These include the philosophy and sociology of law as well as doctrinal, empirical, historical, interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to the study of law. Our educational offering covers a broad range of legal disciplines. We are home to a vibrant postgraduate research community.   We also have a Professional Law Institute and a Legal Clinic.

Of particular relevance to this role are the School's LLM programmes in International Tax Law online and on-campus.

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract. 
This is a full-time post.

Key responsibilities

•   Make a strong contribution to the development and delivery of our International Tax Law programmes at postgraduate level, including giving lectures, and delivering seminars and tutorials, online and on campus as appropriate;   
•   A willingness to contribute to the delivery, development and teaching of our core undergraduate curriculum; 
•   Take part in the development of new teaching initiatives, and programme development, in accordance with the School and University's strategic goals;  
•   Contribute to the holistic development of our students through pastoral care and engagement in student experience activities, and in particular by acting as a personal tutor; 
•   Participate in student development processes, including student progress monitoring, education assessment and examination; 
•   To be available during assessment and marking periods; 
•   To be responsible for marking formative and summative work and to provide timely and effective feedback working closely with relevant module leaders and programme directors and the professional services programme and assessments team; 
•   Accept academic administrative responsibilities in School or University governance structures; 
•   Engage in professional development and scholarship as appropriate to further the post-holder's career; 
•   To hold office hours for student support; 
•   To attend School meetings, including Staff meetings and Education meetings as required.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

Skills, knowledge, and experience

Essential criteria

•  First degree in law 
•  Postgraduate or professional qualification in law 
•  Excellent teaching skills  
•  Excellent knowledge of, and experience of teaching, Tax Law  
•  Competence with electronic learning platforms and other IT skills 
•  Track record of experience in online teaching including production, delivery and management of online modules and preparation of teaching materials  
•  Excellent oral and written communication skills 
•  Skills in providing student feedback and assessing work 
•  Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships 
•  Ability to work to and meet tight deadlines 
•  Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team 
•  Willingness to contribute to the School's culture of collaboration

Desirable criteria

•  PhD, DPhil, JSD, or equivalent experience in law  
•  Experience in practicing law  
•  Research active in International Tax Law and public policy relating thereto 
•  Experience in the development of engaging teaching methods and educating students with diverse cultural backgrounds 
•  Demonstration of appropriate subject knowledge in relevant or related fields to International Tax Law

The selection process will include a panel interview and a teaching presentation as part of the interview. Interviews will be held in April 2021.

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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