Assistant/Associate Professor for On-Line Teaching

Contract: Full Time (1FTE), Open ended

Detailed Description

We are looking for a teaching focused Assistant/Associate Professor with experience of developing and delivering online courses, particularly in Computer Science and the Mathematical Sciences. The post will be based on the Edinburgh campus of Heriot-Watt University. This is a role where you are expected to spend 80% of your time on teaching and 20% on scholarship. For such a role, career paths to full professorship exist at Heriot-Watt. Depending on the profile of the applicants, different arrangements may be considered.

Assistant Professor: Grade 8 (£46,735 - £57,422)

Associate Professor: Grade 9, (£57,422 - £68,529)

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Developing, teaching, overseeing and running undergraduate, masters, and doctoral level courses, in particular courses within the on-line MSc Computer Science on the Coursera platform. When appropriate, leading new teaching initiatives to enhance current provision. 
• Academic leadership, such as being course leader on internationally taught courses, being programme leader on undergraduate or postgraduate programmes, and leading outreach and recruitment events where appropriate. 
• Supervision and guidance of undergraduate, postgraduate and where appropriate postdoctoral researchers.  
• Scholarship activities, particularly, but not exclusively, in relation to on-line teaching and the use of teaching technology.

Essential Criteria

• A PhD in computer science or closely related field 
• Experience in developing and delivering online courses/content 
• Evidence of strong communication skills 
• Good interpersonal and teamwork skills  

Desirable

• The skills to supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students 
• Track record of teaching well and enthusiastically 
• Evidence of research activities that relate to on-line teaching and the use of teaching technology generally 

We will also entertain applications for a T&R role, that is, a role where time is split 50/50 among teaching and research. If that is the case, additional criteria will come into play including evidence of good quality research outputs (Essential) and having a track record of grant funding (Desirable).

Should you want to apply for the T&R role, then please make this very clear in your cover letter.

About our Team

You will join the School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. The School is internationally renowned for its world-class research across a number of areas including mathematics and statistics, actuarial mathematics, theoretical computer science, robotics, natural language processing, programming languages, AI, data science and machine learning. 

For all criteria, further details and how to apply:

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Heriot-Watt University values diversity across our university community and welcomes applications from all sectors of society, particularly from underrepresented groups. For more information, please see our website www.hw.ac.uk/uk/services/equality-diversity.htm and our award-winning work in Disability Inclusive Science Careers disc.hw.ac.uk.

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