Lecturer - Foundation ; Business

5 roles Available

£41,220 - £47,728 per annum

plus £4000 per annum

Permanent

37

6 Lecturer roles full-time (we do welcome fractional contracts of 0.5 FTE and above - please indicate on your application)

Senior Lecturer/Programme Leader

Foundation Year - Academic Persistence

We are an aspirational and multi‑award‑winning university, delivering rapid growth with ambitious plans to disrupt the HE sector through our passion for innovation and digital education. Our vision is to become the first‑choice university for career‑focused lifelong learners worldwide, ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access higher education.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines, forge worldwide partnerships, and grow our locations.

Our Centre for Academic Persistence focuses on helping and supporting students through their first‑year university journey. We are a large team passionate about supporting students in realizing their potential. We deliver the Foundation Year, the CertHE programme, the On Track initiative for students requiring level‑progression support or assistance with resitting or retaking modules, and the new‑student orientation.

We welcome applications from candidates with experience in any of the following subject areas:

• Business Management
• Health and Care Management
• International Hospitality and Tourism Management
• Digital Marketing
• Accounting and Finance
• Project Management

We are currently looking for a number of Lecturers to join the Centre for Academic Persistence to support the delivery of our Foundation Year course. This will include 16 hours of teaching (4 groups), academic support including office hours and tutorials, and facilitating the cover rota on campus. You will be expected to go to campus 3‑4 days a week to suit the student timetable.

• Deliver engaging and dynamic lectures both face‑to‑face and online for our blended and distance learning students.
• Take on module leadership, ensuring consistent quality and development of learning materials and schemes of work.
• Oversee assessment marking, create authentic assessments, and provide high‑quality feedback.
• Lead or support the creation of new programmes and refresh existing ones to align with industry trends and employer requirements.
• Collaborate with colleagues to provide academic advice and support to students.
• Drive innovation in teaching methods, student support, and assessment.
• Assist with student orientation weeks (online) and face‑to‑face on campus.
• Support students with their assessments including 1‑1s, group tutorials and scaffolded assessment feedback sessions.
• Assist students through providing reminders and tracking those who are at risk of non‑submission via phone calls, online 1‑1 tutorials and face‑to‑face assessment tutorials.
• Work closely to develop our assessment and resit clinics.
• Develop/create interactive videos, podcasts and activities that could be shared on our VLE and in‑class activities.

We are looking for individuals who understand challenges to student engagement in a university setting and have experience teaching Foundation Year or academic skills. You must be positive and empathetic to dealing with student issues, ensuring we further engage students with their studies and ensuring positive student outcomes. Our Foundation Year has Business and Social Sciences pathways.

We welcome applications from those with an academic background in teaching some of the following subject areas: academic skills, assessment support, business (accounting and finance, business management, project management), service industry (health and care management and hospitality/tourism) and/or social sciences (criminology/law/psychology). An interest in AI in education, or enterprise/innovation would be advantageous.

• You must have a master’s degree or equivalent professional qualification in a subject relevant to the teaching area.
• You must have a recognised HE…