The Department and role purpose:

Durham Geography is a vibrant community of over 60 academic staff (approximately equally divided between physical and human geography), a graduate school of around 100 research and 40 taught postgraduate students and more than 750 undergraduates. The Department is well supported with technical staff, including a cartography unit, and administrative staff.

The most recent QS rankings for Geography placed Durham 12th overall in the world. The department is recurrently ranked in the top handful of programmes in the UK by various league tables; in 2021, we were ranked 3rd in The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide and 6th in the Guardian University Guide. The Department was graded top for research power (quality weighted by volume) among UK geography departments in the most recent Research Excellence Framework exercise in 2014 and 3rd for iGPA (average score scaled by proportion of staff submitted). With 43% of work assessed as being in the highest category, it produced the largest number of world-leading (4*) publications in the country.

The Department of Geography at Durham University seeks to appoint a Learning and Teaching Assistant Manager. The Learning and Teaching Assistant Manager is responsible for managing day to day programme delivery, encompassing all areas of the students lifecycle from the point of enrolment to graduation. S/he will work closely with colleagues to maintain the quality of existing programmes and support programme developments, with a particular emphasis on the development and implementation of the University's new Virtual Learning Environment, plus its integration with SharePoint and other supporting systems. The Learning and Teaching Assistant Manager is responsible for supervising a team of professional services staff, ensuring that the student experience is at the forefront of delivery. They will also work closely with the Learning and Teaching Manager, the Director of Education and other key stakeholders in the Department to deliver efficient and innovative professional support services across all L&T and assessment activities.