job description - Teaching And Learning Specialist
Overall Job Purpose:
- Provide leadership in achieving excellence in Teaching and Learning (T & L) through the following: quality assurance of T & L; Lecturer development based on The IIE's T & L strategy with specific focus on: active learning; reflective practice; marking & feedback for learning and promoting intellectual integrity with lecturers.
Reporting to Head: Academic
Qualification:
- Bachelors Degree PLUS Postgraduate Diploma/ Bachelors Honours Degree in Education (PGCE or B.Ed).
- Higher postgraduate qualification (Med; MA; Mphil; PhD) preferable.
Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years Teaching and Learning experience (preferably in teaching environment).
- Must have experience in using technology to enhance learning and an understanding of the current regulatory framework and its impact on higher education and private colleges.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Quality Assurance of Teaching and Learning
- Ensure compliance and quality enhancement in all teaching and learning processes and initiatives.
Management and Development of Teaching Practice on Campus
- Work to develop lecturer's teaching skills and reflective practice through a process of continuous conversation that includes the teaching portfolio, peer reviews, SETs and continuous development plan.
- Implement training workshops for IC lecturer development (Specifically lecturers' reflective teaching practice and marking practice) based on Peer reviews; SETs and development plans.
Teaching and Learning Culture on campus
- Promotes a Teaching and Learning Culture on campus by building communities of best academic practice and drives uptake of contemporary developments in Teaching and Learning for the lecturers.
- The successful incumbent is required to promote a culture of scholarship within their practice, discipline and campus/team and is also required to contribute towards The IIE’s Vega School achieving its annual research output targets.
Teaching and Learning Resource
- Collaborate with Programme Managers, Educational technologists; Permanent lecturers and National Teaching and Learning Manager, in planning, brainstorming and problem solving on Teaching and Learning matters.
Lecturing
- Lectures 1 module per semester (not exceeding 70 hours in total).
Competencies required:
- Superior communication (written and verbal) and organisational skills
- Demonstrated ability to manage work and self proactively
- A proven track record of effective teaching based on a reflective practice
- Tolerance for operating in a pressurised environment and industry
- Proven ability to work independently and as a member of a team
- Able to demonstrate the ability to manage relationships with managers and staff effectively in terms of motivation, quality and performance
- Proven computer literacy
- Demonstrated competence in being solutions driven
- Experience in the use of technology to enhance learning is an added advantage
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Vega is an educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education which is registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training.