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About the Role

The Foundation year is designed to support progression onto degree programmes at LCCM, providing students with essential knowledge and skills in music business, performance, songwriting, and production. This Subject Lead role focuses on creating holistic teaching and learning experiences to progress and retain students, leading curriculum design, development, and delivery. The role involves managing staff, ensuring quality control, resource management, and fostering a collaborative environment. It also offers the opportunity to assist the Programme Leader and engage in research and professional practice to enhance subject, practice, and pedagogical awareness. The role holder will also be expected to attract, recruit, and teach students, and contribute to extra-curricular activities.

Responsibilities

Deliver teaching across modules within your subject area, in line with allocated load, including pastoral support
Lead and manage named modules, ensuring high quality teaching, assessment, and student academic experience
Maintain academic standards through effective assessment design, marking oversight, and standardisation of feedback
Monitor, evaluate, and enhance module delivery, including responding to student feedback
Contribute to curriculum development and cross disciplinary teaching strategies with the academic team
Engage with quality assurance and administrative processes, including annual monitoring and exam boards
Support programme leadership in meetings, committees, and implementation of institutional policies
Maintain industry engagement and subject expertise through ongoing professional development
Use appropriate technologies to enhance learning, teaching, and organisational effectiveness
Promote equality, diversity, and inclusion in all aspects of work
Undertake additional duties consistent with the role as required
Coordinate teaching activity across staff and demonstrators

Requirements

Relevant BA qualification or equivalent professional experience
Teaching qualification (PG Cert or equivalent)
Experience of teaching & assessment in a Higher Education environment
Experience of curriculum design and development and the creation of course materials that support student development
Experience of an innovative and inclusive approach to teaching in Higher Education, contributing to student success
Experience of leading and managing education (people, curriculum, quality & standards, students, recruitment)
Evidence of research, knowledge exchange and/or professional practice that contributes to the advancement of the Discipline and is relevant to the goals of the Course, College and music industries.
Post graduate or higher research degree (Desirable)
Fellowship (or Higher) of the Higher Education Academy (Desirable)
Experience of leading or coordinating a Foundation or access programme (Desirable)
Experience of curriculum validation or revalidation (Desirable)
Experience of mentoring or supporting the development of academic staff (Desirable)
Engagement with outreach or widening participation initiatives (Desirable)
Evidence of successful partnership working with schools, colleges, or industry (Desirable)
Expertise and the ability to develop course materials and teach music.
Considers equality, diversity and inclusivity in all aspects of teaching practice
Shows commitment to understanding the range of students’ experiences within a course
Ability to motivate and work in a collaborative way with assessment practice including how to assess the work and progress of students and provide constructive, developmental and challenging feedback
Demonstrate relevant professional networks and relationships that bring expert external knowledge to student learning, employment and enterprise
Effectively plan and manage workload, prioritising work to meet deadlines and achieve personal, team and course objectives.
Understanding of widening participation and inclusive pedagogical approaches (Desirable)
Familiarity with UK higher education regulatory frameworks (e.g., FHEQ, QAA Quality Code, OfS B3 metrics) (Desirable)
Ability to interpret and utilise student data to enhance retention and progression (Desirable)
Experience of cross-institutional collaboration to support student success (Desirable)
Must be able to prove the right to work in the UK

Skills

Music business
Performance
Song writing
Production
Academic language proficiency
Holistic approaches to teaching and learning
Curriculum design, development, and delivery
Learning, teaching, and assessment
Quality control
Resource management
Collaborative working
Research and professional practice
Pedagogical awareness
Student recruitment
Teaching
Extra-curriculum activities
Staff development
Innovative teaching
Creation of teaching materials
Discipline expertise
Industry engagement
Use of appropriate technologies
Equality, diversity, and inclusion promotion
Teaching across modules
Pastoral support
Module leadership and management
Assessment design
Marking oversight
Standardisation of feedback
Module evaluation and enhancement
Curriculum development
Cross-disciplinary teaching strategies
Quality assurance
Administrative processes
Annual monitoring
Exam boards
Programme leadership support
Institutional policy implementation
Subject expertise
Coordination of teaching activity
Expertise in music course material development and teaching
Motivating and collaborative work style
Constructive, developmental, and challenging feedback provision
Professional network development
Workload planning and management
Prioritization to meet deadlines
Achieving objectives

Location

London College of Contemporary Music (LCCM) (The Music Box campus) - SE1

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Experience of teaching & assessment in a Higher Education environment
Experience of curriculum design and development
Experience of leading and managing education
Experience of leading or coordinating a Foundation or access programme (Desirable)
Experience of mentoring or supporting the development of academic staff (Desirable)
Experience of curriculum validation or revalidation (Desirable)
Experience of cross-institutional collaboration (Desirable)

Education Level

Relevant BA qualification or equivalent professional experience
Teaching qualification (PG Cert or equivalent)
Post graduate or higher research degree (Desirable)
Fellowship (or Higher) of the Higher Education Academy (Desirable)

Salary/Compensations

Competitive DOE

Benefits

20 days annual leave
Pension 5% personal contribution & 3% Company contribution
Season Ticket Loan (T&C's apply)
Vision Express Eye Care Vouchers
Training & Development opportunities (T&C's apply)
Staff Discount Scheme – via My Rewards Hub, from various retailers
Refer a friend scheme for staff members (T&Cs apply)
Social events on campus and through GUS Social Committee
Professional development opportunities, including training and career progression pathways.
Employee wellbeing programmes and access to counselling services.

About the Company

The Foundation year has been designed to support progression onto degree programmes at LCCM and forms part of the 4-year degree courses.
The course is designed to provide students with the basic knowledge and skills to progress onto level 4, specifically in the areas of music business, performance, song writing and production.
Additionally, the Foundation programme ensures that students are at the academic level required to progress onto level 4.
Students will gain the proficiency of academic language required to succeed at level 4.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
We are committed to ensuring our workforce is reflective of our diverse student population, striving to increase the representation of age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background of our employees.
We’re also committed to providing adjustments to those who may require support with the recruitment process - please contact the LCCM Talent Acquisition Team collegedivisionrecruitment@gus.global