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 Grade: 7

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to August 2027

Background

To teach and advise undergraduate, postgraduate or CPD students within core medicinal chemistry topics including organic and analytical chemistry areas and within the established MPharm programme, managed supervised by member of staff with ultimate responsibility for the design, delivery and assessment of the teaching programme.

Role Summary

• Teaching within own subject area within an established teaching programme (under the supervision from an academic member of staff).
• Contribute to generating funding and may: a) contribute to enhancement of the student experience or employability; b) contribute to designing CPD programmes for clients external to the University and similar; c) contribute to deliver CPD programmes, consulting on own specialism and the like, often under the supervision of a project leader.
• Contribute to licensing or spin out deals with demonstrated commercial success (such as revenues, asset or company sales, IP generated) and/or public understanding of the

Main Duties

• Teach courses at a range of levels within specified subject area and within own area of subject specialism to undergraduates, postgraduates and CPD students, predominantly through allocated lectures and seminars, so that the School’s teaching objectives are met.
• Contribute to the design of modules with other colleagues.
• Duties will include delivery of lectures, conducting workshop sessions, leading practicals and participating in student assessment, including marking submitted work. 
• Plan and prepare own teaching, including guidance notes and handouts in accordance with the established objectives of the teaching programme. 

Person Specification

• Higher degree relevant to research or teaching area, a specialism in Chemistry Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Science would be advantageous.
• High level analytical capability
• Be able to teach a range of undergraduate medicinal chemistry topics to undergraduate pharmacy students, including core medicinal chemistry topics including organic and analytical chemistry areas.
• 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 and duties under the Equality Act 2010. Including fostering good relations and advancing the universities Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED).
• Other relevant criteria from our equality and diversity knowledge, skills and experience document.

Informal enquires can be made to Professor Anthony Cox a.r.cox@bham.ac.uk

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