Senior Lecturer in Computer Science

FTE: 1.0fte (working 37 hours per week)

Duration of Contract: Permanent

Salary: Grade UH8 £44,263 per annum with potential to progress to £56,021 pa by annual increments on achieving designated skills and experience

Annual Leave: 35 days plus standard public holidays and an additional 4 days including the closure of our office between Christmas and New Year

Location: College Lane Campus, Hatfield

Main duties and responsibilities

The Senior Lecturer will provide high quality teaching, research and module leadership in Computer Science with expertise that will contribute to our Human Centred Computing group with demonstrable experience and expertise in all or some of the following areas:

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• Accessibility conformance testing
• HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Experience with WAVE, Google Lighthouse or similar tools

You will also provide pastoral and academic support for home and international students, and will play an important role as part of a team incorporating the Head of Department or Subject Group Leader, programme leader, module leaders, the professional, administrative and technical staff (if applicable), the Dean of School and the Associate Deans of School.

You will also be expected to contribute to teaching in mainstream areas of Computer Science, and modules with particularly large groups of students.

Skills and experience required

You will possess excellent communication skills in English and have demonstrable experience of teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level.  Whilst face to face teaching is expected, you may be required to teach in a blended mode or wholly online, with excellent organization, planning and IT skills. You will have the ability to contribute to curriculum development, and an appreciation and understanding of the educational needs of students. You will have the ability to act as a responsible team member and develop productive working relationships with other members of staff, as well as flexibility and adaptability to workload and team requirements.

Qualifications required

An undergraduate degree or equivalent Level 6 qualification in a relevant discipline, as well as a postgraduate qualification i.e. Masters and/or PhD (completed or close to completion, e.g. has submitted final thesis) in a Computer Science/relevant field or significant demonstrable experience in the required areas. A fellowship of Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy) is desirable.

Please view the job description and person specification for a full list of the duties and essential criteria. Please attach a personal statement to your application showing clearly how your skills and experience match the requirements set out in the Person Specification.

An appointment to this role may require an Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) certificate.

Contact Details/Informal Enquiries:

Dr Simon Trainis, Head of Department of Computer Science S.A.Trainis@herts.ac.uk

This post attracts a £5,000 Recruitment Incentive payable to the successful candidate in their first salary payment after joining the University of Hertfordshire for the first time. The Recruitment Incentive Payment is subject to the usual salary deductions for tax and National Insurance but is not pensionable. Please note that individuals recruited under this scheme who leave the University within 3 years of initial appointment are required to reimburse a proportion of the Recruitment Incentive Payment dependent on their length of service on leaving. For specific details please contact Karen Withers, HR Business Partner, k.withers2@herts.ac.uk.

Interview Date: TBC

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