Position Details
Arts and Law
Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,636 to £46,049 with potential progression once in post to £48,822
Grade: 7
Part Time (0.35 FTE),
Fixed Term contract up to July 2029
Closing date: 14th June 2026
Background
To teach and advise undergraduate and postgraduate students within own subject area and within an established teaching programme, supervised by member of staff with ultimate responsibility for the design, delivery, and assessment of the teaching programme. Contribute to the administrative running of the Department.
Role Summary
- Deliver high quality teaching at UG and PG level in an established programme.
- Convene and deliver LI Music for Games, LI Critical Musicology and LM Music as Critical Practice; convene and/or contribute to the delivery of other modules including LC Music and its Cultures II, LH/LM Electronic Music Studies and possibly LC Composition with Technology and LM Composition Portfolio, plus undertake associated marking and assessment.
- Contribute where necessary to other modules and marking.
- Supervision of BA and MA dissertations as appropriate in own specialism and beyond.
- Fulfil Departmental administrative roles as required by the Head of Department.
Main Duties
- Teach courses at a range of levels within specified subject area and within own area of subject specialism to undergraduates and postgraduates, predominantly through allocated lectures and seminars, so that the Department’s teaching objectives are met.
- Contribute to the design of modules with other colleagues.
- Plan and prepare own teaching, including the use of online learning environments in accordance with the established objectives of the teaching programme.
- Devise and supervise projects, student dissertations, and practical work.
- Develop an approach to planning and reviewing own teaching.
- Undertake full range of responsibilities in relation to supervision, marking, and examining. (Summative assessment, including assessed work contributing to the final award – as a mark or as a credit – such as unseen examinations, essays, dissertations or presentations, is subject to validation by the academic supervisor.)
- Provide pastoral support to students at BA and MA level through individual and group tutorials.
- Attend field trips (including in EU) if required.
- Undertake personal professional development in teaching, including self-reflection on own teaching, using student and peer review feedback, to enhance own teaching and learning processes.
- Contribute to knowledge transfer on own specialism that is of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader.
- Undertake management/administration arising from teaching.
- Contribute to Departmental/School teaching-related activities and teaching-related administration.
- Contribute to administrative running of the Department beyond teaching-related business.
- Promote equality and values diversity acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture.
Person Specification
- A PhD (or near to completion) in Music with a specialism in musical culture since 2000.
- Teaching experience in Music, especially in relation to critical approaches, at BA and/or MA level.
- Experience of teaching, assessing, and supporting students in a university department or equivalent.
- Ability to organise co-taught modules with other members of staff.
- Ability to teach studio-based composition (desirable).
- Ability and flexibility to fit easily into existing teams to deliver a range of modules.
- The role-holder will be required for on-campus teaching and meetings across 1 to 3 days per week (timetable-dependent).
- A specialism and interest in an area of Music that can contribute to other modules, module development, dissertation supervisions.
- Ability to provide pastoral support to students at BA and MA level.
- Excellent time management.
- Fluent written and spoken English.
- Ability to design and deliver module materials successfully.
- Ability to assess and organise resources effectively.
- Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes.
Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day-to-day activity in own area that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly.
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Informal enquiries to Ben Earle, email: [email protected]
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