Associate Lecturer Criminology

Programme of Study: Undergraduate and Postgraduate

Contract type: part-time, self-employed

Post responsible to: Programme Team Leader

Are you...

• Forward thinking and open to change?
• Supportive and able to nurture student's potential?
• Inspiring - encouraging students to love their subject?
• Ambitious - able to innovate and deliver results?

About Arden University

We are a new and rapidly growing University aiming to disrupt the HE sector through innovation.

Our vision is to make a difference - make education more accessible, engaging and beneficial to people everywhere. We are looking to grow our Academic community to help us make this happen.

This is an exciting time for us as we continue with our transformation and development programme, driving an industry leading-learner experience and further developing our innovative full-time degrees across multiple campus locations.

We take pride in the relationships we build with our students and recognise the importance of having the right staff in place to support students to realise their potential.

A key feature of our programmes is embedding the development and application of academic and employability skills that are attractive to employers.

We support our students by making our degrees available through online distance learning and flexible blended on-campus study helping students from 18-80 years old achieve their ambitions and benefit from Higher Education.

You can find out more about our programmes of study and Arden University by visiting: www.arden.ac.uk

Working at Arden

We are looking to appoint Associate Lecturers at our Birmingham, London, Liverpool and Manchester campuses.

Watch some of our existing academic colleagues talking about why they like working at Arden.

About the role

At Arden University, you will be working with a dynamic team of academic lecturers and support staff.

We are looking for academics with a range teaching experiences (face to face and online).

Academics will also be keen to see others succeed, can work independently, are comfortable to deliver teaching using a range of multi-media platforms and flexible to fit with Arden's active learning environment.

The benefits of working at Arden include having access to a range of resources, working in a close-knit team who will support you in your teaching and delivery to students.

Find out more about the criminology modules we offer our students.

Essential Criteria

• Proven ability to deliver student-centred teaching
• Experience of teaching and assessing within the UK HE sector
• Have a teaching qualification or be prepared to work towards one
• Have a minimum of a Masters level qualification and/or solid work experience within the area of criminology or criminal justice.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of teaching within an online or blended learning context
• Familiarity with Virtual Learning Environments and other technologies to support learning
• Ability to attend occasional staff training events
• Hold or be working towards a PhD

Please take a look at the detailed job description

Please note that because of the high volume of applications that Arden University receives, we regret that we are unable to contact applicants who have been unsuccessful.

Applicants are required to provide evidence of their right to work in the UK

Recruitment may be subject to completion of an enhanced DBS check.