Lecturer

Job Title:	Lecturer
Hours:	Part-time 0.5 FTE
Salary:	£38 – £42k
Contract Type:	Permanent
Holidays:	28 days + bank holidays + Christmas shutdown
Reporting to:	Dr. André Pusey
Location:	Talgarth LD3

About Black Mountains College

Black Mountains College is an educational charity; a radical new institution dedicated to climate action and adaptation. We offer three levels of education: further education (vocational training), higher education (undergraduate) and short courses, as well as public education delivered across the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park.

We help people in every sector and of all ages understand what the climate emergency means for them and prepare for just and appropriate responses to the multiplying impacts emerging. At the heart of our operations is Troed-yr-Harn farm, a beautiful venue for land-based learning and agro ecological experimentation on 120 acres of the Black Mountains outside Talgarth, Powys, in Wales. 

We are recruiting for two roles to contribute to our undergraduate degree, a BA (Hons) in Sustainable Futures: Arts, Ecology and Systems Change, which recruited its first cohort in September 2023. 

Firstly, we are seeking to recruit a Lecturer in Futures Thinking to fulfil a 0.5 FTE role, leading on two modules – ‘How can we imagine the future?’ and ‘Designing the Future’, once in each term. There is potential to increase the role if the successful candidate has relevant expertise to contribute to other areas of the programme. This is a permanent contract.

Secondly, we are looking to recruit a Lecturer in Sustainable Futures with a focus on one or more of the following areas of expertise: agroecology, alternative economic futures or Socio Technical Systems.  This is a 0.5 FTE role and there is potential to increase the role if the successful candidate has relevant expertise to contribute to other areas of the programme. This is a permanent contract.

All our teaching on the degree takes place in person at our campus in Talgarth where we have several dedicated teaching spaces.

Interviews are scheduled to take place during week commencing 23^rd March.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Lecturer, your responsibilities will include working with a wider team to: develop a programme of teaching, support Visiting Lecturers, curriculum development, and administration.

Duties include:

Teaching 

• Teaching across the programme, including leadership of two modules. 
• Drawing on and developing innovative approaches to learning and teaching that extend the ethos of Black Mountains College, emphasising methods appropriate to the urgent challenges of the present and future.
• Assessing student learning through a variety of methods designed to allow each student to develop their own strengths and providing detailed feedback.
• Providing academic support and guidance to students.
• Leadership, management and administration.
• Working with others to ensure the College becomes an inclusive environment that centres and empowers communities and perspectives that might otherwise be marginalised.
• Advising and liaising with colleagues on aspects of learning, teaching, and assessment at Black Mountains College and our partner Cardiff Metropolitan University.
• Providing advice and support to students based on College and University policies, procedures, and guidance.
• Supporting and contributing to the ongoing development of the partnership between Black Mountains College and Cardiff Metropolitan University.
• Participating in the College’s recruitment, community engagement and promotional events.
• Acting as a personal tutor to students
• Acting as a student research project supervisor 
• Assisting with programme development when needed

Thinking, Reading, Reflection, Practice

• Working with others to develop practice and engagement activities, including by applying for suitable funding if opportunities arise.
• Being aware and informed of developments in higher education relevant to development of new pedagogies, interdisciplinary education, and/or inclusive practices.
• Engaging in activities that put the Black Mountains College ethos into practice, helping to create systems change with others, in response to local and global challenges.
• Supporting the practice and reflection of colleagues, students, and the wider BMC community. 

Engaging in knowledge exchange and public engagement activities around areas of interest and practice.

Qualifications & Skills

Essential Qualifications Skills

• The ability to complete administrative tasks accurately and efficiently, with an eye for detail.
• Curiosity and interest in how a wide range of people learn and develop.
• An undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline.
• A doctoral qualification or a relevant track record of publications (whether academic or in other fora).
• A relevant teaching qualification or a willingness to undertake one and/or Fellowship of the HE Academy within 2 years of appointment.
• 2+ years of teaching experience in relevant settings.
• The skills to deliver learning effectively, and proven experience of designing and delivering experimental pedagogies in an unconventional setting.
• Experience of embedding study skills in relevant programmes.
• A proven commitment to inclusive practices and experience of teaching learners from a wide range of backgrounds.
• Experience of and/or proven ability to work in an interdisciplinary learning environment.
• The ability to build positive relationships within a diverse community and inspire others.
• A collaborative approach to teaching, practice, and administration.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.

Desirable Qualifications & Skills

• Connections to industry, the charitable and public sectors.
• We are actively looking to recruit a Welsh language speaker, who can support embedding Welsh medium provision into our undergraduate curriculum.
• Knowledge of a variety of educational sectors and/or routes into education.

APPLY

With a cover letter and CV by COB Friday 13^th March to jobs@blackmountainscollege.uk. Alternatively, you can apply via Indeed.