Discipline Leader

Overview

The Discipline Leader provides academic leadership, quality assurance, and strategic direction for a specific discipline, ensuring excellence in teaching, learning, assessment, and research. The role involves managing and developing Module Coordinators, cultivating a culture of collaboration and professional growth, and ensuring alignment with institutional quality standards and strategic goals. The Discipline Leader also drives curriculum development, innovation, and industry engagement to enhance student learning outcomes, workplace readiness, and the reputation of the School and STADIO.

• Academic leadership and management:
  Lead and advance the discipline’s teaching, learning, and assessment strategy in alignment with STADIO’s institutional and School-level strategic priorities. Collaborate with fellow discipline leaders to foster knowledge sharing, optimise institutional expertise, and ensure cohesive and integrated delivery across disciplines. Advise on alignment of shared modules across programmes and Schools. Ensure implementation of the communication and engagement matrix promoting team-based teaching.
• Teaching, learning and assessment:
  Ensure the best possible student experience through development, implementation, and evaluation of teaching, learning, and assessment strategies for the discipline per delivery mode, aligned to best practice. Ensure high quality authentic assessments in the discipline, delivered on time and in line with STADIO requirements. Oversee the development of class activity plans that comply with STADIO’s T&L norms. Oversee collaboration between MCs and campus lecturers in the teaching teams in the discipline.
  
  Oversee the development of new or reviewed study material. Stay informed on developments in the discipline and pedagogical best practice to continually enhance modules. Act as internal moderator on selected modules where necessary.
• Research:
  Conduct research in field of expertise. Promote research and research publications/presentations for the discipline and monitor progress of the research plan. Promote the highest levels of quality, integrity and ethics in all research undertaken. Create a dynamic and forward-looking research environment for both staff and students.
• Quality assurance:
  Assure alignment of all academic activities with prescribed norms and support requests from the quality office in matters pertaining to the discipline area. Implement the necessary internal and external evaluation and monitoring procedures to ensure both compliance and improvement in support of STADIO’s quality assurance framework. Ensure student voice is incorporated into discipline-level quality assurance processes. Comply with data analytics, reporting, auditing, quality assurance, and risk management procedures both internal and external.
• People management:
  Recruit and develop new MCs (PCs; SCs) when needed, in collaboration with the HOS. Manage academic staff performance at module and discipline levels, including performance reviews, goal-setting, and corrective actions where needed. Develop and coach module coordinators (and programme coordinators, if relevant) in discipline-specific teaching, learning, assessment, and research competencies. Build and strengthen the discipline team through targeted professional development and capacity-building initiatives.
  
  Cultivate a culture of excellence and collegiality, promoting cooperation, collaboration, and respect within the discipline and across the School. Conduct resource planning for new/revised programmes and continued deliverables. Manage workload allocation amongst direct reports aligned to the STADIO norms.
• New programme/module development:
  Oversee (and initiate, where relevant) the development of new programmes/modules/short courses in the discipline and make recommendations on staffing requirements. Initiate initiatives which align with and promote the STADIO strategic direction with reference to the STADIO stripes and community engagement.
• Industry liaison and networking:
  Ensure that discipline modules are relevant to the world-of-work and prepare students for the workplace. Promote…