Lecturer in Digital Marketing

Job Title – Lecturer in Digital Marketing

Reports to – Programme Leader

Location – London - Canary Wharf and / or Borough campuses

Salary Range – £43,000 to £48,000 per annum (depending on experience).

Hours: Full Time – Monday to Friday (with option for part-time)

As a Lecturer at the Victoria College of Arts & Design, you will play a key role in delivering, maintaining, and continuously enhancing the high standards of teaching, mentoring, and academic support that we aim to provide for our students.

Yours will be a key role in designing, delivering, and assessing undergraduate modules and programmes across our Digital Marketing and Business Management programmes.

You will primarily teach at Level 5 and Level 6 but will also deliver teaching at other Levels and on other appropriate degree programmes, as may be reasonably required.

You will have both academic knowledge of and professional experience in digital marketing.

Ideally, alongside your general knowledge, you will also bring to VCAD specific knowledge and skills within one or more of the following areas, Marketing Psychology, Digital Photography, Business Ethics, Human Resources, and Innovation in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship.

This position is ideal for someone who is passionate about teaching and mentoring, and who is also dedicated to delivering student success.

1. Teaching and Module Delivery:

• Plan, develop, and deliver high-quality, student-centred lectures, seminars, tutorials, and workshops for assigned modules.
• Utilise a range of best-practice teaching methods to support various learning styles, fostering engagement and inclusivity.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of subject areas, ensuring course content is relevant, current, and aligned with contemporary industry practice and research insight.

2. Assessment and Feedback:

• Design, manage and assess formative and summative coursework assignments, ensuring flexibility, fairness, transparency, and relevance.
• Provide succinct, constructive, coherent and timely feedback to students, using written, recorded or written media, designed to aid students in their academic reflection, progress and development of core skills.
• Ensure that grading and feedback is in line with best practice and standards across the English Higher Education sector.

3. Student Support and Guidance:

• Act as an academic advisor and mentor to students, providing guidance on academic matters and supporting their professional aspirations.
• Organise and participate in student engagement activities and additional, non-curricular, learning and academic integrity support sessions.
• Address individual student needs, such as reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities, and refer to appropriate support services as necessary.

4. Curriculum and Module Development:

• Work collaboratively with faculty, management, students and external stakeholders to develop, modify and enhance curricula so that it always reflects contemporary industry and academic trends.
• As appropriate, devise, design, manage and deliver the continuous improvement of teaching resources, such as updating reading lists, case studies, practical equipment, practical exercises, and online learning content.
• Participate, as appropriate and when requested, in all Academic Development Committees including curriculum review committees, considering such things as the development of new and revised programmes.

5. Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement:

• Adhere to all VCAD and Partner institution policies, procedures, and quality assurance standards.
• Engage in peer review processes to improve and share good practices across teaching methods.
• Participate in teaching observation and evaluation processes to ensure good quality support, development and enhancement of teaching practice across faculty.

6. Professional Development:

• Participate in professional development activities, keeping abreast of innovations and developments within the field of higher education teaching and learning and regulatory requirements.

7. Administrative and Departmental Responsibilities:

• Undertake, as reasonably required, administrative duties related to teaching, timetable management,…