UCL Australia
Role Description
Principal Teaching Fellow – Level C
A Principal Teaching Fellow is required to deliver excellence in both teaching
and research in pedagogy at an internationally recognised level together with
knowledge transfer/exchange and enabling.
Main duties and responsibilities
In addition to the requirements for a Senior Teaching Fellow the requirements
of a Principal Teaching Fellow are:
a) Academic leadership and to develop and motivate colleagues to
work as part of a team to achieve departmental, faculty and UCL
Australia and other institutional goals.
b) To make a leading contribution to the formulation, monitoring,
administration and review of departmental, faculty and institutional
teaching and learning related strategies e.g. responsibility for the
strategic development of a series of course modules and / or
course programmes; involvement in driving forward international
teaching and learning strategies; designing and managing peer
observation within UCL Australia / other institutions.
c) To introduce innovative and transformational changes to the
curriculum and make a significant contribution to the skills and
knowledge base in relation to teaching and learning within UCL
Australia and / or the discipline.
d) Active involvement in strategy development in relation to teaching
and learning and involvement in / chairing of working parties as
requested e.g. IQR Panels, participating in external quality audit
teams.
e) The management and development of the admissions process in
UCL Australia.
f) To exercise national leadership or be recognised as a national
authority on the teaching of their subject, and the dissemination of
scholarship e.g. through organising national seminars, workshops
and/or conferences; regular contributions as a referee for journals
in the area of teaching; sitting on editorial boards of appropriate
journals; advising relevant professionals/professional bodies;
publishing on practical, conceptual and theoretical aspects of own
work.
g) Leadership in widening participation and / or public engagement
initiatives in UCL Australia.
h) Leadership on equality action initiatives related to teaching and
learning in UCL Australia.
i) Contribution to national conferences in relation to the pedagogy of
own work and that of others and involvement in national teaching
bodies.
j) Undertaking and overseeing a range of enabling and administrative
tasks necessary to support the above duties.
Key Requirements
A Principal Teaching Fellow must have a PhD in a relevant discipline at the
time of appointment.
Graduate Certificate in Education (Higher Education)
Membership of a relevant professional organisation.
Proven track record of coordinating /drafting bids for both internal and external
funding.