Lecturer (Student experience and wellbeing)

Grade UE08: £43,414 - £51,805 per annum

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences / Moray House School of Education & Sport

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Open-ended

Moray House School of Education and Sport are seeking to further enhance our student’s experiences and wellbeing throughout their student journey. To contribute to this, we are seeking an enthusiastic, experienced Lecturer to lead on developing our student’s peer-support networks, and contribute to opportunities for our students to develop student literacies in learning and wellbeing that will support them to flourish.

The Opportunity:

The post holder will develop, implement and lead on evidence-based strategies for enhancing student support, the student experience and student wellbeing at MHSES for all students, with a focus on building our peer-support offering across UG and PGT and contribute to the integration of wellbeing and academic literacies in and through our curricula, and in our student support ecosystem. This is a new and exciting post in MHSES, and it is anticipated that the main responsibilities and the indicative time contribution to these will evolve.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• A PhD or equivalent, either submitted or awarded by the time of appointment in a related field.
• Experience of development, coordination and management of peer support programmes.
• Experience in designing and delivering student experience and wellbeing initiatives.
• A thorough knowledge of recent developments and priorities in the higher education sector, relating to student experience, widening participation, student support, student wellbeing and peer support.
• Evidence of high-quality teaching at the forefront of the discipline including recent, sustained and developing attainments in teaching and assessment in student wellbeing.
• Evidence of successfully driving improvement in student experience.
• A proven record of ability to manage time, budget and to work to strict deadlines.
• Skills in managing, motivating and supporting people (including both students and colleagues).
• Excellent interpersonal skills, communication and organisational skills.
• A strongly developed student-focussed approach.

Application Process:

We welcome applications from candidates belonging to groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in this area. When applying candidates must include a current CV and cover letter. We invite candidates to use their cover letter to highlight professional and personal experiences relevant to the role. The interview panel will review documents submitted and assess applications in line with the criteria listed in the job description.

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interviews are expected to be held in person at the Holyrood Campus, week commencing 17 th April (subject to change).

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.

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The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.