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Senior Lecturer Programme Lead

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater)
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
4 Jan 2022

Job Details

Job description
The Joint Education Institute (JEI) is an ambitious project between King’s College London (King’s) and the Southern University of Science & Technology (SUSTech) to establish a world-class medical school in Shenzhen, China.  The purpose of the JEI is to develop innovative, world-class joint education programmes and to engage with high-tech and med-tech industry in southern China and Hong Kong to generate pedagogical and curriculum advances.   
 
King’s is seeking to appoint three academics with experience of programme organisation and management to deliver teaching in the following areas: Biomedical Engineering; Pharmacology & Molecular Genetics; and Medicine.  The post-holders will live and work in Shenzhen, China and will act as Programme Leads on three new joint programmes being set up as part of the JEI: 
 
•         MBBS Medicine: a six-year programme leading to GMC-recognised Primary Medical Qualification. 
•         BSc Biomedical Science: a four-year programme aimed at equipping graduates for a career in scientific research or employment in industry or allied fields.  
•         BEng Biomedical Engineering: a four-year programme designed to train the next generation of biomedical engineers working in research, industrial and service-delivery healthcare environments. 
 
Successful candidates will spend 3-4 months at King’s (where possible) developing educational materials and methods before starting teaching duties on the SUSTech campus for a period of four years.   Appointments will be on the King’s Academic Education Pathway (AEP) that allows career progression to Professor based upon contribution to education and scholarship.  Staff on the AEP have an indicative 20% of time available to engage in research.  
 
Candidates must have a PhD in the biosciences; outstanding educator skills at levels 4 – 7 in the biosciences, biomedical engineering or pre-clinical/translational medicine; and experience of module development and/or module/programme leadership.   A relevant qualification in higher education e.g. PGCAP is desirable.  
 
We are particularly interested in candidates able to teach undergraduate biomedical engineering, pharmacology, medical genetics, and pre-clinical/translational medicine alongside making contributions to transferable skills training, but we are open to applications from all areas of the biomedical sciences. Candidates can specify an interest in one of the joint programmes listed above or can choose to be considered for any of the three posts.  
 
Post holders will receive competitive remuneration packages and benefits, including accommodation in China and flights to and from the UK.  
 
Fixed-term, full-time appointment including four-year secondment to China (s.t. review)

Key responsibilities
Successful candidates will form part of a small team delivering the King’s component of the first three Joint Education Programmes (JEPs) within the Joint Education Institute (JEI).  Team members will work closely with academic colleagues from SUSTech and will report into the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine’s Centre for Education and relevant Teaching Department (dependent upon individual’s area of expertise).   
 
Duties and Responsibilities:  
 
Leadership: 
•         To provide academic leadership and strategic direction for one of the Joint Education Programmes (JEPs). 
•         To work closely with the Executive Dean (JEI), the FoLSM Heads of Teaching Departments, and other appropriate managers and staff across the JEI, to ensure that the educational and academic support requirements for the JEP are met and that the JEP is delivered in an efficient and appropriate manner. 
•         To line-manage teaching staff employed within the Joint Education Institute. 
•         To work collegially with academic colleagues and professional services staff to deliver an excellent learning experience for our students. 
 
Education: 
•         To be responsible for the management and delivery of the JEP, including new initiatives relating to the structure, content or management of the programme.   
•         To coordinate a wide range of functions relating to the JEP including admissions, course advising, degree awards, student welfare and the monitoring of progression and achievement rates. 
•         To provide a lead role in relation to audit and other quality assurance activities. 
•         To engage in progressive methods of delivering the JEP in line with the strategy of the JEI, the King’s Education Strategy and King’s Vision 2029, using methods that create interest, understanding and enthusiasm amongst students. 
•         To make a significant contribution to the teaching, assessment and project supervision of the JEP 
•         To provide effective, timely and appropriate feedback to students to support their learning. 
•         To contribute fully and conscientiously to administrative tasks within the JEI, for example module leadership or programme review. 
 
Resource Management and Planning: 
•         To contribute to the establishment of targets for student numbers and monitoring the achievement of these targets.   
 
Management and Governance: 
•         To represent the JEP at relevant JEI, Faculty and external meetings. 
•         To ensure compliance with JEI regulations, statutes and codes of practice, for areas of responsibility under the purview of the programme leads.   
•         To represent the programme’s interests in the formulation of JEI policy; be responsible for the implementation of JEI policy as it applies to the programme. 
•         To undertake public engagement activities as appropriate. 
 
Other: 
•         To engage in continuous professional development as appropriate.  
•         To engage in scholarship directed towards improving the learning experience of students. 
•         To contribute to creating a positive, enthusiastic learning culture for all staff and students. 
 
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

 
1.       PhD in the biosciences 
2.       Proven commitment to ongoing skills development and training 
3.       Outstanding educator skills at levels 4 – 7 in the biosciences/pre-clinical or translational medicine/biomedical engineering. 
4.       Experience of teaching and assessment in higher education 
5.       Experience of leading quality improvement in education, through the innovative use of technology, space and resources, approaches to assessment or personal tutoring 
6.       Experience of module development and/or module/programme leadership 
7.       Ability to work independently and as an enthusiastic, active contributor to a multi-disciplinary team 
8.       Experience of supporting student progression and welfare as a personal (pastoral) tutor in higher education 
9.       Experience of sharing best practice and learning from peers in the higher education sector in the UK and internationally 
10.   Ability to engage collaboratively with a range of stakeholders (e.g. students, employers, professional and regulatory bodies) 
11.   Ability to apply current best practice to the teaching and assessment of the biosciences, ensuring full compliance with relevant Academic Regulations 
12.   Ability to organise workload, including administrative tasks, meeting deadlines in a timely and effective way 
13.   Excellent communication skills – written and spoken – including publication, conference presentations, engagement with a wide audience from the public, industry, professional bodies and peers 
14.   Willingness to teach outside areas of immediate expertise 
15.   Desire to live and work in China. 
 
Desirable criteria 
 
1.       Relevant qualification in higher education, e.g. PGCAP  
2.       Ability to engage peers and contribute to the promulgation of good educational practice through scholarship, peer support and a collegiate approach 
 
Further information

The posts are based at the SUSTech campus is Shenzhen, China.  
Post holders will receive competitive remuneration packages and benefits, including accommodation in China.  

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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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