Accounting and Finance Lecturer Part Time

RTC Education Ltd T/A Regent Group

Company Overview: Established in 2000 Regent Group has a passion for education; helping learners excel personally, academically and professionally. Based in London, we are experienced providers delivering quality education from nursery, through tuition services and full-time secondary school, to further and higher education and executive leadership courses.

Responsibilities: The Academic Support Officer (ASO) is A-Z responsible for each of the class/all the students in that class, taught by DAD via MST.

1. Design teaching material and deliver either across a range of modules or within a subject area.
2. To produce duly approved and signed off detailed Scheme of work, aimed at academic review and monitored by the HOS
3. Duly approved and internally verified Assignment brief, fit for purpose and in line with awarding body regulations. This must be circulated to enrolled students on the Day 1 of attendance. The Assessment team will circulate this from the central team, so that ASO needs to make sure that the Assignment briefs are circulated on a timely basis
4. Each ASO should also make sure at the beginning of the contract with RCL they “know your student” project, that is background of student, their English levels and any other learning issues identified at the Admissions, Recruitment and Widening Access and enrolment stage. “KYS” is a paramount action that each ASO should undertake.
5. Enter attendance records during each lesson directly entered in Unit-e by the academics. The attendance team shall start the monitoring from the start of the lesson and shall contact students if needed to deal with any non-attendance issues. The attendance team shall also send regular reports to the management team on the whereabout of each scheduled lesson sEnter the assessment record directly in unit-e or maintain appropriate records, so that ASO is fully aware of the assessment data about each of the student.
6. Each module ASO is wholly responsible for student submission and must make sure 90% of students submit on time and make sure this is managed in an efficient manner.
7. Each module ASO is also responsible for achievement of each student and the KPI set up in line with RCL overall KPI of for every 100-student enrolled, RCL needs to certificate 80, that is 80% certification rate regardless of the duration of the course.
8. At the end of each module completion, the respective ASO needs to prepare a module evaluation report MER, with in an agreed timescale reviewed by the Head of School and reported to AD/Principal. This report should be compiled by the Quality Office but prepared by the respective ASO.

Scheduled formative assessment and finally summative assessment sessions:

The following are pre-requisite to acceptance of a contract:

1. Evidence of detailed formative feedback.

2. Evidence of detailed summative feedback.

3. For avoidance of doubt, one-line feedback is not allowed and also copy paste feedback from other students is also not allowed. Each student is unique and each student work is also unique, failure to adhere to these new regulations will be a breach of contract with RCL.

4. Each student should engage before and after the assessment process, in particular formative on a weekly basis from the day 1 of attendance, that is c.16 hours after the 12 hours of direct teaching sessions and all of these hours need to be tracked by the ASO. It is the responsibility of the ASO to demonstrate for their respective students the GLH is achieved on a module by module basis.

5. The system team will set up Unit-e facility to track these GLH, until such time the new system is implemented, ASO can keep records and work with the reporting team.

6. This is a new way of recording the FA and SA sessions and ASO needs to fully understand prior to commencement of their module contracts.

Selection Criteria:

A: Qualifications

• A good honours degree, or equivalent, in a relevant subject with an appropriate subject specialism (essential).
• A postgraduate qualification or relevant professional experience or PhD in an appropriate or closely related discipline (desirable)
• A recognised teaching qualification (or willingness to enrol on PGCHE) (desirable)
• Fellowship (or Senior/Principal Fellowship) of the Higher Education Academy (desirable)

B: Teaching and Course Management experience

• Course management experience, namely running an RQF Pearson’s HND. (essential)
• Evidence of ability to meet the teaching needs at course and degree level (essential)
• Relevant work experience within the field (essential)

C: Supporting students

• Ability to work as a team member to enhance the quality of taught provision, increase levels of student satisfaction, improve levels of student retention, progression and employability, and support student enterprise activities. (essential)

D. Communication and IT skills

• Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills including: oral; written/literacy; numeracy and presentation, underpinned by the ability to use IT to support students and discharge administrative responsibilities (e.g. MS Office and Outlook). Evidence of the use of VLEs in teaching (e.g. Whiteboard/Moodle). (essential)

E Values and behaviours

• Able to demonstrate an understanding of, and commitment to, equality and diversity, and its practical application within the context Regent College Higher Education.

Salary: £35,000 – £40,000 DOE