Associate Lecturer - Core Coaching Skills

Do you have a passion for coaching and teaching? Birkbeck, University of London, has an excellent opportunity for an Associate Lecturer to teach throughout 2025.

Birkbeck Business School is looking to recruit a part-time, Associate Lecturer to teach on the module:

• Core Coaching Skills
• Approximately 52 hours over the duration of the year
• Autumn, Spring and Summer Terms 2025/26. 

Your role will be to deliver teaching to Birkbeck students, in order to enable them to complete their studies successfully, and to undertake all related course administrative duties as required. 

This post offers the opportunity to contribute to a well-established skills-based postgraduate module on the Coaching programmes in the Birkbeck Business School.

This module forms part of our Career Coaching and Coaching Psychology Certificate and Masters programme - it begins the journey for students to gain a good foundation for developing the core skills for Coaching in organisations and with a career specialism.

The programme supports students to develop high-level reflective practice, an understanding of the core digital and in-person skills needed to support clients with career and work conversations, and to work safely at depth as organisational coaches. It is built around an evidence-based and reflective experience in the classroom.

In addition to the criteria specified in the job pack, the minimum requirements for selection are: 

• Experience as a career coach or organisational coach.
• An MSc in Career Coaching or Coaching Psychology, as well as currently working as a career coach. 
• An excellent and innovative teacher, or facilitator, with a track record of group work and/or reflective practice and supervision
• A good understanding of the needs of a wide range of learners and be able to relate well to their individual needs and engage their interest and enthusiasm.   
• A working knowledge of IT including Word, Excel, e-mail and experience of (or willingness to use) Moodle. 

If this sounds like the role for you, we invite you to apply for this position at Birkbeck, University of London, today. 

Remuneration:

Payment is based on an hourly rate depending on length of continuous service with the College (starting rate £68.13 per hour inclusive of pro-rata London Allowance and holiday pay) for contact hours worked. This hourly rate is based on the starting point of Grade 7 and is inclusive of a ‘Duties Related to Teaching Multiplier’ at 2.5, which covers preparation, teaching, administration, assessment marking and other examining duties in connection with the course.

Contract: 

Fixed-term, part-time contract. Please submit a CV and statement for consideration. Closing date: Sunday 22 June 2025, interview date: Monday 30 June 2025. 

Enquiries:

If you would like to know more about the role, please contact Janet Sheath on j.sheath@bbk.ac.uk.  

If you have difficulty using the recruitment portal, please contact jobs@bbk.ac.uk providing your name and the job reference number of the position. While we are happy to respond to all informal enquiries, only formal applications through the online system will be considered.

We welcome applicants from all sections of the community. The College is committed to improving the gender and cultural diversity of its workforce, holding an Athena SWAN award and operating Disability Confident & Mindful Employer schemes.

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