Assistant/Associate Professor for On-Line Teaching

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. 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.

The post will be based on the Edinburgh campus of Heriot-Watt University, and although the work with students will all be on-line, we do expect you to be on-campus for at least three days a week, both to ensure an embedding within the Department and School and a share in its community,  but also because you will, for example, be expected to supervise dissertation students on related on-campus programmes

School/Section: Based in the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences

Duration - Open ended

Key duties and responsibilities

Reporting to the Head of School/Head of Discipline, responsibilities include:

• 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.

Education, Qualifications and Experience

Essential Criteria

E1: A PhD in computer science or closely related field

E2: Experience in developing and delivering online courses/content

E3: Experience in teaching courses in Computer Science

E4: Evidence of strong communication skills

E5: Good interpersonal and teamwork skills 

Desirable Criteria

D1: The skills to supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students

D2: Track record of teaching well and enthusiastically

D3: 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; otherwise T&S will be assumed.

For all criteria, further details and how to apply:

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