Academic Excellence Coach

The creation of the Academic Excellence Coach role represents a proactive step towards strengthening our school's commitment to excellence in teaching and learning. As a teaching intensive institute, we must showcase the very best in academic practice, striving for continual improvement. 

This new role is designed to drive this pursuit for classroom excellence through proactive measures such as modelling best practice, providing in-class support and analysis, and offering personalised coaching and mentoring across academic teams, for colleagues at all levels of delivery, experience, and expertise.  To ensure positive outcomes for our students, it is essential that we can evidence innovative teaching methodologies, robust student engagement strategies, and a commitment to delivering high-quality education across our provision.

We also recognise that many staff are already delivering to a consistently high standard, these posts will support the continued development of our high performers as well as showcasing their good practice and impact for the benefit of all.  The resulting impact should be discernible in key metrics such as the National Student Survey (NSS), WhatUni surveys, and the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF27) and, most importantly, the experience of our students. 

Whilst it is important that the post holder demonstrates a consistently high level of classroom delivery, student engagement and innovation, it is even more important that they can support others to do so. 

The successful candidate will be expected to

Coach and mentor colleagues at all levels to enhance academic practice and excellence.

• Engage internally and externally to identify and share innovative, forward-thinking, teaching approaches.
• Drive academic excellence initiatives, monitoring and tracking impact. 
• Work collaboratively with colleagues from across the school, and UCB, including Deputy Dean (teaching, learning and digital) and the HR team.

Benefits:

• Generous allocation of annual leave
  • 38 days’ paid leave per year
  • 12 Bank Holidays & Concessionary Days
• Teachers’ Pension Scheme
  • Employer Contributions - 28.6%
• Subsidised private healthcare provided by Aviva including a Digital GP Service.
• Employee Assistance Programme inclusive of counselling services, financial wellbeing support and bereavement support
• Annual health MOTs with our Registered Nurse
• Excellent staff development opportunities including professional qualification sponsorship
• A variety of salary sacrifice schemes including car, technology and cycle.
• Heavily-subsidised on-site car parking in central Birmingham
• Free on-site gym membership

Closing Date:

Sunday 14 July 2024.

Interview Dates:

TBC

Standard Information:

University College Birmingham is proud to have been voted 5^th in the Post Graduate Education category in the prestigious 2024 Whatuni Student Choice Awards. The awards are voted for and by students showcasing the incredible relationships we foster here at University College Birmingham between Staff and Students. We are TEF rated Silver, with a Good Ofsted rating. 

University College Birmingham has a unique collaborative partnership with the University of Warwick - Ranked ninth in the 2024 Guardian League Tables and 67th in the World QS University Rankings 2024

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