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About the Role

The post holder will lead the enhancement of teaching, learning, and academic staff development across LAAT, ensuring staff are supported to deliver high-quality, inclusive, applied, and student-centered learning that reflects LAAT’s mission, values, and educational model. This role is central to embedding LAAT’s Social Learning Paradigm and supporting staff in designing effective learning experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead and enhance learning, teaching, and assessment in line with strategy and regulation, supporting inclusive, applied, high-quality teaching.
• Embed the Social Learning Paradigm and authentic assessment, applying the educational gain model across teaching and engagement.
• Drive continuous enhancement using student feedback, performance data, and peer review.
• Lead LAAT's academic professional development framework, including induction, CPD, and Professional Development Plans.
• Design and deliver CPD on inclusive and active learning, assessment, feedback, and integrity.
• Support engagement with the Advance HE PSF and Fellowship routes.
• Lead a developmental, collegial Peer Review of Practice process, monitoring completion and reporting themes while preserving confidentiality.
• Facilitate communities of practice and a culture of reflection, feedback, and shared responsibility for student success.
• Ensure staff development improves student belonging, engagement, confidence, and success, responding to diverse needs and embedding metacognition and reflection.
• Promote active, learner-centered methods that build applied skills and contribute to LAAT's educational gain outcomes.
• Contribute to quality assurance and gather evidence for OfS conditions, external review, and partner requirements.
• Support programme approval, review, and reporting.
• Promote purposeful, inclusive technology-enhanced learning, authentic assessment, and evidence-informed pedagogic innovation.
• Provide visible leadership for teaching excellence.
• Collaborate with the Dean, Academic Managers, and professional services colleagues to build trust across LAAT.

Requirements

• Postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience in HE, education, or teaching.
• Experience of teaching or leading teaching enhancement, and designing/delivering staff CPD in HE or comparable settings.
• Strong grasp of inclusive, active, student-centred, and applied pedagogies, academic standards, assessment, and feedback.
• Experience using feedback, review, and data to improve academic practice.
• Awareness of the Advance HE PSF or equivalent.
• Clear written/verbal communication and effective working across academic, professional services, and partner colleagues.
• Commitment to LAAT's values of Excellence, Innovation, Integrity, Inclusivity, and Empowerment.
• Teaching qualification (HEA Fellowship, PGCert HE, CertEd, PGCE or equivalent) is desirable.
• Experience managing academic teams, projects, or enhancement activity is desirable.
• Experience leading or participating in peer review of teaching is desirable.
• Experience working with educational gain, student outcomes, or learning analytics is desirable.
• Experience of partnership/collaborative HE provision is desirable.
• Familiarity with OfS conditions and UK HE quality expectations is desirable.
• Experience supporting technology-enhanced learning and digital/blended delivery is desirable.
• Understanding of curriculum-embedded employability is desirable.

Skills

• Develop and deliver CPD
• Translate strategy into practical guidance
• Analyse feedback and data
• Facilitate workshops and reflective discussion
• Manage multiple priorities

Education Level

• Postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience in HE, education or teaching
• Teaching qualification (HEA Fellowship, PGCert HE, CertEd, PGCE or equivalent) is desirable

About the Company

• LAAT's mission, values and educational model
• LAAT's Social Learning Paradigm
• LAAT's values of Excellence, Innovation, Integrity, Inclusivity and Empowerment