Reader/Professor in Business Education

Job id: 085185. Wage: Reader grade from £64,421 and Professor beginning at £80,324 every year, together with London Weighting Allowance..

Posted: 19 March 2024. Time limit: 02 April 2024.

Enterprise unit: King’s Enterprise College. Division: Advertising and marketing – King’s Enterprise College.

Contact particulars:Professor Sally Everett. [email protected]

Location: Strand Campus. Class: Tutorial & Instructing.

Job description

King’s Enterprise College is trying to recruit an impressive Reader or Professor on our Tutorial Schooling Pathway (AEP) to offer mentorship and lead instructional scholarship within the quantitative fields of enterprise and administration (i.e. economics, accounting and finance).   

Knowledgeable by the brand new King’s School London Technique 2026, our triple crown accreditation and an schooling technique centered on rigour, relevance, inclusiveness and innovation, we’re going via an thrilling growth section. Delivering a transformative schooling is central to the school’s ambitions. Due to this fact, we’re in search of top quality folks with a observe report in excellent instructional follow and pedagogic scholarship to affix our distinctive crew and neighborhood. The College locations a premium on worldwide ranges of scholarship and so you may be anticipated to play a job within the standing and growth of pedagogic analysis and academic follow. 

Given this position is on our Tutorial Schooling Pathway (AEP), the profitable candidate could have to have the ability to contribute to glorious instructing and take a lead position within the growth of our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, mentoring education-focused colleagues in our quantitative topic areas, constructing the college’s repute with scholarship and education-related analysis, and play a key half in shaping and producing earnings for the brand new Centre for Innovation, Management, Schooling and Improvement (I-LEAD).   

The position will work intently with our quantitative-focused departments, ILEAD, the broader college AEP neighborhood and our Careers Staff. The position holder will likely be anticipated to interact and lead instructing improvements in partnership with our college students that remodel the training expertise of our college students, drive ahead our work-related studying ambitions and ship scholar success and excellent graduate outcomes.  

Please be aware that on condition that this appointment is on our Tutorial Schooling Pathway (AEP). Candidates with vital analysis outputs and profile, however with restricted proof of excellence of their instructional follow, scholarship and information of experiential studying and progressive pedagogic follow are unlikely to be shortlisted. That is an education-focused appointment and candidates will likely be anticipated to proof vital management in reworking and enhancing schooling and scholar outcomes inside an HE context. 

We significantly welcome functions from black and minority ethnic candidates as they’re presently under-represented throughout the school at this stage.  

The posts will likely be provided on an indefinite contract  

They’re full-time posts 100% full time equal

Key obligations

• Maintain high-quality scholarship exercise via a portfolio of particular person and/or joint enterprise schooling initiatives and safe funding to assist instructional initiatives.
• Take part in main (inter)nationally recognised tutorial networks, attend conferences and conferences to current scholarship and thereby improve the nationwide (Reader stage) and worldwide (Professor) standing of the College.
• Present mentorship and work with Tutorial Schooling Pathway colleagues within the areas of economics, banking & finance, and accounting to assist their growth and academic scholarship.
• Work with topic division Schooling Results in improve instructional requirements in studying, instructing and evaluation.
• Tackle a major management position within the planning, design, organisation and supply on our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
• Present high-quality instructing in a quantitative enterprise topic space.
• Supervise scholar dissertations and supply assist and steerage on tutorial and pastoral points by appearing as a Private Tutor to college students.
• Develop and implement quite a lot of progressive and artistic strategies to evaluate scholar studying and supply suggestions that’s well timed, related and applicable.
• Lead on the introduction and growth of latest instructional initiatives that assist studying and instructing and incorporate them into greatest follow
• Make a major contribution to education-related actions throughout the college (e.g., interact with schooling committees, lead initiatives via ILEAD and facilitate workshops)
• Undertake every other affordable duties that could be requested by the Vice Dean (Schooling) or the related Head of Division

The above record of obligations is probably not exhaustive, and the submit holder will likely be required to undertake such duties and obligations as could moderately be anticipated throughout the scope and grading of the submit.

Abilities, information, and expertise

Important standards 

1.      PhD in a related topic  

2.      Senior or Principal Fellowship of the HEA  

3.      Vital expertise of main high quality enhancement in instructing and studying at College and/or college stage  

4.      Nationwide (for Reader) or Worldwide (for Professor) repute for enhancing enterprise schooling and the coed expertise.  

5.      Proof of sustained top quality instructing at a spread of ranges and modes (UG, PGT, Exec and on-line) 

6.      Expertise of mentoring and assist of educational employees of their instructing over a sustained interval  

7.      Earlier management position for brand spanking new programme developments and instructing initiatives  

8.      Public, cultural or enterprise engagement resulting in modifications in schooling practices or coverage  

9.      Demonstrable dedication to fairness, inclusion and justice in schooling and scholar assist

Fascinating standards

1.     Recipient of inter/nationwide instructing awards e.g. Nationwide Instructing Fellow or Collaborative Award for Instructing Excellence 

2.     Proof of management by way of shaping nationwide college coverage for instructing high quality assurance and enhancement 

Key position inside exterior topic associations or skilled our bodies (e.g. schooling committee memberships)

4.     Success with instructional grant funding and securing exterior earnings for studying and instructing initiatives.

The interviews for these posts will likely be held in Could – June 2024. Potential begin dates for the submit will likely be September 2024.