enior Lecturer (Education & Scholarship) - UOD1704

Do you have a passion for transforming lives through education in a growing School of Health Sciences? We are expanding our education offerings and are looking for an experienced educator to help build and diversify our education portfolio.

About you

We are looking for someone with substantial experience and leadership related to higher education, who can contribute to development and innovation in our education programmes. You should have a substantial track record of expertise and experience of professional healthcare education, including leadership roles. You should be educated to master’s or PhD level, demonstrating strong interest and success in education. You should have demonstrable success in either educational leadership or education portfolio development, related to health professions education.

You will have skills to support the University’s transformational goals through learning, teaching, assessment and scholarship activities, which aim to provide an excellent student experience.

The role

Your education activities will be focused on contributing to our pre-registration nursing and our wider postgraduate programmes. Your scholarly activity will be linked to educational innovation and development, and excellent student experience. You will be expected to take on a substantial leadership role in the school and / or to lead on development of our education portfolio.

We welcome applications from people who meet all essential criteria.

Essential and desirable criteria for the posts are set out in the further particulars. Key components of the role include:

• Leadership of education in the School
• Learning, teaching and assessment
• Other educational activities
• Supervising postgraduate students
• Collaborative and interdisciplinary work
• High quality scholarly activity
• University and external activities related to education and scholarship

About us

We have a vibrant academic community, with a skilled and enthusiastic team, delivering first-class education that directly enhances health outcomes. We offer a large

undergraduate nursing programme and a range of postgraduate programmes for health professionals. We have a diverse student population and programmes are delivered on our Dundee and Kirkcaldy campuses as well as online.

This is an exciting opportunity to build your academic career in a supportive environment that strongly encourages innovation and professional development. We collaborate extensively with external partners, and every member of staff can benefit from being part of world leading research and education collaborations. We offer a positive induction into our community and you can hear this first-hand from recent recruits here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBbdTuERLA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGxJaiviGGg

The successful candidate can choose to be based on either the Dundee or Kirkcaldy campus, to accommodate travel and family commitments. However, candidates must be prepared to travel between campuses for teaching and other activities. We also support hybrid working.

The diversity of our community helps to make the University of Dundee a UK university of choice for staff and students. Our inclusive workplace offers staff access to family friendly policies, staff networks for BME, disabled and LGBTQ+ staff, membership of Athena SWAN, the Race Equality Charter and Stonewall, as well a full range of disability services.

For further information please contact: healthsciences-schooloffice@dundee.ac.uk .

The closing date for applications is Sunday 29 September 2024. Interviews for this appointment are scheduled for Monday 4 November 2024.

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