Academic ConnectAssistant Professor (Education) (Job Number: 25000973)
Durham Centre for Academic Development
Grade 8: - £47,389 - £56,535 per annum pro rata
Open-Ended/Permanent - Part Time
Contracted Hours per Week: 17.5
Closing Date: 30-Aug-2025, 6:59:00 AM
Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement: Not Applicable.
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The Department
The Centre for Academic Development at Durham University (DCAD) seeks to appoint a talented individual to the role of Assistant Professor (Teaching) within its prestigious Foundation Programmes. The Foundation Programmes deliver the first year of a range of extended undergraduate degree courses, preparing students from Fair Access and Widening Participation backgrounds for successful study in HE.
Our students come from a very wide range of academic backgrounds and most have experienced socio-economic or educational disadvantage. As such, the Foundation classroom and community of practice provides a particularly challenging and invigorating environment for teaching, pastoral support, and scholarship. The Programmes are careful to recruit exceptionally skilled teaching staff with the personal and social awareness to support our students’ diverse learning and pastoral needs at the individual level.
This post offers an exciting opportunity to make a contribution to the development of DCAD’s professional academic education and programme of activities for staff, while allowing unrivalled opportunities to progress and embed your career in an exciting and progressive institution. The successful candidate will develop and deliver key elements of Durham’s offering of training, development and support for staff in teaching.
Candidates will be expected to engage in scholarship activity related to teaching and learning, noting that any other independent research is not part of this post. For more information, please visit our Department pages at www.dur.ac.uk/dcad
Assistant Professors (Education) at Durham
Assistant Professors on the Education track contribute to teaching, innovation, and citizenship, with opportunities to enhance their own development, support their department and discipline, and contribute to the wider student experience.
Teaching quality and innovation is critical to ensure a first-class learning environment and curricula for all our students. You will be supported to develop your teaching expertise, to engage in teaching innovation, to enrich our student experience, and will be assigned a designated mentor.
You will be expected to engage in scholarship related to pedagogy, noting that any other independent research (beyond pedagogy) is not part of this post. The appointment will be on the University’s ‘Education Track’ career path, which provides clearly defined opportunities for progression against defined criteria.
We are confident that our recruitment process allows us to attract and select the best talent to Durham. We therefore offer a reduced probation period of 1 year for our Assistant Professors (Education) and thereafter, subject to satisfactory performance, your position will be confirmed as permanent.
Applicants must demonstrate teaching excellence in the field of foundation level business and related study, with the ability to teach our students to an exceptional standard and to fully engage in the services, citizenship and values of the University.
The University aims to provides a working and teaching environment which is inclusive and welcoming and where everyone is treated fairly with dignity and respect. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate these key principles as part of the assessment process.
Key responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Foundation Programme Director and support services to ensure Business students are effectively supported throughout their Foundation Year study.
- To deliver lectures, seminars and tutorials at foundation year level, with the opportunity to teach more widely within the Department, as well as engaging in related activity such as assessment.
- Engage in pedagogic activity at Departmental level that supports a high quality, academic professional community of practice within the Department and beyond.
- Maintain an active membership and engagement with a professional body (e.g. HEA or discipline-specific bodies).
- Work closely with the Foundation Programme Director lead ongoing curriculum development of Business with Foundation courses, demonstrating innovation in educational practice to enhance the quality of the educational environment in the Department and wider University in support of our continuing emphasis on international excellence as well as equality, diversity and inclusion.
- To contribute to the administrative work, citizenship and values of the Department.
- Engage in and enhance the values of the Department.
- Carry out such other duties as specified by the Director of Durham Centre for Academic Development (DCAD).