Teaching Fellow in Ecology (Maternity Cover)

Job summary

The Department of Life Sciences has an international reputation for its teaching and research. We employ over 80 academic staff, have ~100 PhD students, ~300 Masters Students and over 1000 Undergraduate students across 2-degree streams in Biological Sciences and Biochemistry/ Biotechnology. 

We wish to recruit an enthusiastic individual with appropriate academic and educational experience. You will support ecology teaching on the Department’s undergraduate teaching programmes and provide a range of teaching delivery and support.

Duties and responsibilities

• You will work closely with year and module convenors and education office staff to support on-campus discipline-specific teaching of our undergraduate curriculum, as well as contributing to off-campus marine and terrestrial residential fieldwork.
• Duties will include the development of new teaching materials and curating the Blackboard VLE; supporting the running of laboratory, field, and computational practical classes; supporting, and delivering lectures, problem classes and workshops; and assessment of student progress including the marking of coursework and examinations.
• In addition, you will have a role in supporting pastoral care provision for undergraduates.

Essential requirements

• You must have hold a PhD (or equivalent) in Ecology or related area. 
• You should be able to demonstrate some teaching experience in a higher education environment. 
• An ability to contribute to the delivery and assessment of core ecology topics as well as ecology field work is essential.     
• An ability to teach quantitative skills (maths, programming, and statistics) is desirable.  

Further information

This is a full time, fixed term appointment for up to 1 year as maternity cover, with an expected start of 01 September 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. You will be based at South Kensington but will need to travel to teach at our Silwood Park campus some of the time.

Informal enquiries about the positions are welcomed and should be directed to Professor Huw D Williams (Director of Undergraduate Studies) at h.d.williams@imperial.ac.uk or Dr Magda Charalambous (Principal Lecturer [Teaching]) at m.charalambous@imperial.ac.uk]

Hybrid working may be considered for this role. Staff working in roles that are suitable for hybrid working will normally be expected to work 60% of their time onsite. The opportunity for hybrid working will be discussed at interview.

More information is available on the following web page: Work Location Framework | Administration and support services | Imperial College London

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• download: Teaching Fellow in Ecology Job Description.pdf

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