Lecturer in Molecular Biosciences

**Job Purpose**
To contribute to the delivery of an excellent student experience by contributing to teaching, assessment and the administration processes associated with teaching topics within Molecular Biosciences, and to undertake scholarship to enhance learning and teaching.

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**:
2. To undertake administrative duties and to carry out course administration within required timescales ensuring effective communication of information, in particular assessment and examination requirements and criteria, and timely and constructive feedback on assessment to students to support their learning.
3. To contribute to the ongoing development and design of the curriculum for the School’s undergraduate degree programmes, in a manner that supports a research-led and scholarly approach to student learning.
4. Make effective use of learning technologies to support and enhance course delivery, course organisation, feedback and assessment. This may involve blended and/or online provision.
5. Ensure an inclusive and evidence-based approach to facilitating learning in a range of face to face and potentially online delivery formats such as tutorials, lectures, problem based learning, that promotes student participation and learning outcome attainment.
6. Engage in scholarship by undertaking methodologically rigorous, educationally relevant, enquiries into student learning and disseminate evidence to enhance your own, and potentially others’, teaching practices. Attend and participate in appropriate seminars and conferences to support research-led teaching, scholarship and/or professional practice in your disciplinary area.
7. Develop effective working relationships with students and, in partnership with relevant student services teams, respond appropriately to the diverse range of learning approaches and learner needs.
8. Develop relationships with external stakeholders in support of knowledge exchange, public understanding and appropriate forms of outreach such as widening access.
9. Participate in local, and potentially overseas, activities associated with student recruitment (e.g. open days), orientation and induction and other School and University initiatives such as support for student transitions, employability and student mobility as appropriate.
10. To participate fully in the development of assessment processes, using a variety of methods and techniques, and provide effective, timely and appropriate feedback to students to support their learning. Collaborate with colleagues to ensure clear and robust assessment and examination procedures are in place.
11. To supervise and facilitate the running of practical classes advising on skills, methods and techniques to assist the transfer of knowledge.
12.To be an Adviser of Studies and support the pastoral care for students and provide guidance on the choice of courses and degree programmes.

**For Appointment at Grade 8**-14. Take a lead in the on-going development and design of the curriculum in a manner that supports a research-led and scholarly approach to student learning and assessment.
15. Develop effective approaches to the use of learning technologies to support and enhance course delivery, course organisation, feedback and assessment. This may involve blended and/or online provision.
16. Develop a growing portfolio of scholarship outputs and activities by undertaking methodologically rigorous, educationally relevant, enquiries into student learning and disseminate evidence to enhance your own, and potentially others’, teaching practices. Attend and participate in appropriate seminars and conferences to support research-led teaching and scholarship in your disciplinary and/or professional area.

**Qualifications**

**Essential**
A1 Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework level 12 (PhD) or equivalent in a related discipline and/or teaching experience.

**For appointment at Grade 8**

**Knowledge, Skills and Experience**

**Essential**-C2 Ability to communicate material of a specialist or highly technical nature and to be effective both orally and in writing at a level appropriate to the activity.
C6 Demonstrated commitment to open research, as appropriate to the discipline, through open data, open code, open educational resources and practices that support replication.
C7 Proven commitment to supporting the career development of colleagues and to other forms of collegiality appropriate to the career stage.

**For appointment at Grade 8**
C8 Track record of scholarship and development and delivery of teaching, and proven ability to develop and devise teaching programmes, techniques and methods.
C10 Experience and achievement in the relevant field reflected in an expanding personal academic portfolio. Proven ability to design, review and enhance multiple learning, teaching and assessment programmes.
C11 Experience of developing and demonstrating teaching and research methods and devising models, approaches, techniques, critiq