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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Modern Languages

Employer
Global Academy Jobs
Location
United Kingdom
Closing date
Mar 9, 2017

Job Details

Job Purpose

The Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham is seeking to make six appointments at Lecturer or (for suitable candidates) Senior Lecturer level. These posts are part of a significant programme of investment in the Department of Modern Languages. The appointments will both reinforce and expand existing research and education strengths, following the recent appointment of three Chairs. The Lecturers/Senior Lecturers will contribute to the Department’s renewed vision for the future of Modern Languages as it is studied and researched in the University.

The successful candidates will be excellent researchers, holding or close to completing a PhD or equivalent qualifications and with ambitious future agendas for research, impact, and external funding bids that complement and expand current activity in the Department. The appointees will be excellent teachers, and will contribute at all degree programme levels, including both core and specialist modules.

Applications are welcome both from candidates who undertake research in cultural study (broadly defined) and from those who undertake research in linguistics. The Department will give consideration both to applicants who specialize in one language area, and to those who specialize in more than one language. The Department intends to make appointments in relation to the following languages: French, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian.

The Department welcomes applications from specialists in any relevant time period, country, or geographical area, and also from those who undertake interdisciplinary work. Preference may be given to candidates with a research specialism in one or more of the following areas, but consideration will be given to all outstanding candidates:

  • • Translation & Interpreting
  • • Modern Languages & Technology (including Inter-medial studies)
  • • Language Pedagogy
  • • Exile
  • • Sexuality
  • • Atlantic Studies/Hemispheric Studies/Global cultural studies
  • • Aesthetics and/or Cognitive Literary studies


Person Specification

Lecturer

  • • Normally, a higher degree relevant to the research/teaching area (usually PhD) or equivalent qualifications
  • • Extensive research/teaching experience and scholarship within subject specialism
  • • Proven ability to devise, advise on and manage learning/ research
  • • Skills in managing, motivating and mentoring others successfully at all levels


Research

  • • Experience and achievement reflected in a growing reputation
  • • Extensive experience and demonstrated success in planning, undertaking and project managing research to deliver high quality results
  • • Extensive experience of applying and/or developing and devising successful models, techniques and methods
  • • Experience and achievement in knowledge transfer, enterprise and similar activity
  • • Expertise that aligns with the future direction of the Department
  • • Demonstrable capacity to produce excellent publications


Teaching

  • • Ability to design, deliver, assess and revise teaching programmes
  • • Extensive experience and demonstrated success in developing appropriate approaches to learning and teaching and advising colleagues
  • • Experience and success in knowledge transfer, enterprise and similar activity that enhances the student experience or employability
  • • Willingness and ability to collaborate in the planning and delivery of teaching
  • • Willingness and ability to undertake language teaching
  • • Teaching specialisms that align with the future direction of the Department
  • • An ability to make the subject relevant to the present day and in terms of societal challenges


Management Administration

  • • Ability to contribute to School/Departmental management processes
  • • Ability to assess and organise resources effectively
  • • Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes



Senior Lecturer

  • Demonstrated competence in Research; Learning and Teaching; and Management and Administration; and excellence in at least two of these areas.


Research

  • • An excellent national reputation and a developing international profile through significant original research work and a clear record of impact.
  • • High level peer esteem as evidenced by:

- Excellent reputation in the UK and often internationally, reflected in sustained high quality output, level of innovation, impact on subject and recognition
- An excellent and sustained record of peer reviewed research publications

  • • Successful and sustained supervision of doctoral students to completion
  • • A capacity for research income generation, e.g. through research grants, contracts, research consultancy or other external funding, and for mentoring others in relation to research income generation
  • • Sustained high value impact knowledge transfer and enterprise that is of manifest benefit to the College and University


Teaching

  • • An excellent teaching profile and performance in terms of both impact and quality. The teaching quality demonstrated to be informed by an appropriate level of scholarship
  • • High national reputation for the development of teaching and learning excellence within the discipline
  • • Successful and sustained use of a range of appropriate teaching methods, and assessment strategies that promote high quality learning, including learning that is flexible, distinctive and current and stimulates learners’ natural curiosity
  • • Significant and sustained contribution to one or more of the following: strategic development of new programmes; approaches to learning; the development of learning resources
  • • High quality and sustained contributions to fostering excellence in teaching activities more widely, i.e. in the Department/School or College and/or externally
  • • Track record of substantial and sustained high value impact on the enhancement of the student experience, and/or employability
  • • Mentoring and expert advice which develops the skills of colleagues in teaching and in fostering learning
  • • Willingness and ability to collaborate in the planning and delivery of teaching
  • • Willingness and ability to undertake language teaching
  • • Teaching specialisms that align with the future direction of the Department
  • • An ability to make the subject relevant to the present day and in terms of societal challenges.


Management administration

  • • Demonstrated significant achievement in management and administration-related activities, which may include leadership of activities/initiatives.
  • • Successful and sustained performance in significant administrative/managerial role (s) (e.g. exams officer)
  • • Significant and sustained high quality innovative contributions to the management/administration of the Department/School/College or University
  • • Successful and sustained contribution to the corporate life of the School/College/University, displaying willingness to contribute actively to committees, collaborative teaching and administrative tasks.

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