University Teacher at University of Sheffield

Job description:

As University Teacher you will play a key role in contributing to, and maintaining, the School’s portfolio of research led, high quality, teaching. You will be expected to provide lectures and workshops to campus-based students, and to produce and mark assessments on core and optional modules across our Data Science UG and PGT programmes such as:

Responsible Data Science lab; Data Science foundations and contexts; Introduction to Data Science; Becoming a Data Translator; Digital Media and Society; Data, Ethics and Leadership

You will also carry out supervision of UG and Masters dissertation projects. 

As a School we are committed to embedding FATES (fairness, accountability, transparency, ethics, safety and security) principles into data science teaching and research. 

Main duties and responsibilities

• Design, deliver, assess, and evaluate campus based Data Science programmes. This will include identifying learning objectives, selecting appropriate curricula and teaching methods. 
• Prepare and implement student assessments, which will include designing assessment criteria,  marking and ensuring adequate moderation.  
• Undertake academic tutor/pastoral responsibilities for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
• Carry out module and course evaluation, including facilitating student feedback; reflecting on own teaching design and delivery; and implementing ideas for improving own performance.
• Conduct personal scholarship; identifying literature and updating own knowledge; assessing the validity of the literature and its contribution to the development of own field as well as developments in practice in your area of expertise.
• Contribute to the operations of the School, the Faculty and the wider University community  through administrative responsibilities and committee memberships as and when appropriate.
• Ensure digital accessibility of teaching materials by ensuring that content, activities and all their components are accessible to all, in order to remove barriers to learning.
• As a member of staff you will be encouraged to make ethical decisions in your role, embedding the University’s Sustainability strategy into your working activities wherever possible. 
• Carry out other duties, commensurate with the grade and remit of the post

We are a Disability Confident Employer. If you have a disability and meet the essential criteria for this job you will be invited to take part in the next stage of the selection process.

Possession of a criminal record is not an automatic bar to employment at the University of Sheffield. We recognise the value of steady employment in the rehabilitation process and examine each case in its own right. More information can be found on our Information for candidates page:- https://sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/candidates (opens in a new window).