Teaching Fellow

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,636 to £46,049 with potential progression once in post to £48,822

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to January 2028

Background

To teach and advise undergraduate and postgraduate students in the area of Cyber Security, delivering high-quality education within an established curriculum. The postholder will work under the guidance of academic staff with overall responsibility for the programme’s design, delivery, and assessment, and will support students’ learning across core and specialised areas of Cyber Security.

Role Summary

Deliver teaching and supervision within the area of Cyber Security, in particular, on the established MSc Cyber Security programme, under the supervision of academic staff responsible for programme design and delivery.

Main Duties

• Teach courses at a range of levels within the area of Cyber Security to undergraduate and postgraduate students predominantly through allocated lectures and seminars, so that the School’s teaching objectives are met.
• Contribute to the design of Cyber Security undergraduate and postgraduate modules with other colleagues.
• Plan and prepare your own teaching, including guidance notes and handouts in accordance with the established objectives of the teaching programme.
• Devise and supervise student projects, student dissertations and practical work.
• Develop an approach to planning and reviewing your own teaching.
• Undertake full range of responsibilities in relation to supervision, marking and examining. (Summative assessment, including assessed work contributing to the final award – as a mark or as a credit – such as unseen examinations, essays, dissertations or presentations, is subject to validation by the academic supervisor.)
• Frequently update own subject expertise.
• Undertake personal professional development in teaching, including self-reflection on own teaching, using student and peer review feedback, to enhance own teaching and learning processes. 
• Undertake management/administration arising from teaching.
• Contribute to School teaching-related activities and teaching-related administration.
• Assist with School events, such as Applicant Visitor days, and in organising and running tutorial groups.
• Contribute to enterprise, business development and/or public engagement activities of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader.
• Promotes equality and values diversity acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture.

Person Specification

• Higher degree relevant to Computer Science and with specific knowledge of Cyber Security, or equivalent qualifications
• High level analytical capability
• Ability to design and deliver module materials successfully
• Ability to assess and organise resources effectively
• Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes
• Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day to day activity in own area that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly.

Informal enquiries can be made to Phillip Smith, email: p.smith.7@bham.ac.uk 

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