POSITION DETAILS

Birmingham International Academy
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
Full Time, Permanent
Closing date: 4th September 2025
Interviews likely to be held week commencing 29th September 2025

BACKGROUND

The Birmingham International Academy (BIA) is a teaching unit within the University of Birmingham that delivers the International Foundation Pathway, Presessional English and Academic English (Insessional) for international students.
We are seeking an individual to teach and advise International and Home Foundation Pathway students within their own subject area (Engineering and Physical Sciences) in an established teaching programme, supervised by the academic lead for the Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS) Pathway who has ultimate responsibility for the design, delivery, and assessment of the modules taught.

ROLE SUMMARY

The post holder will be expected to teach within the broad area of mathematics, physics, computer science and/or chemistry to an A level standard. This will be within an established teaching programme (under the supervision of the EPS academic lead). Dependent on experience, the candidate may also deliver on other elements of the pathway including but not limited to providing academic personal tutorial etc. Reporting to the Head of the BIA and working with EPS academic lead, the individual will form part of a teaching team delivering the BIA’s Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS) pathway.
They will be expected to contribute to learning materials, curriculum development, and/or management (specialist duties may include assessment development, teacher development, VLE development, quality systems and audits).
The post holder will also undertake other teaching related activities and any other relevant duties, as directed by the Head of foundation for BIA.

MAIN DUTIES

• Teach courses at a range of levels within at least two of mathematics, physics, chemistry and computer science to foundation level, predominantly through allocated lectures and seminars, so that the BIA and Colleges’ teaching objectives are met.
• Contribute to the design of modules with other colleagues.
• Plan and prepare own teaching, including support materials in accordance with the established objectives of the teaching programme.
• Devise and supervise projects, student dissertations, and/or practical work.
• Providing academic support to the students through additional resources as required, personal academic tutorials.
• 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.)
• Frequently update own subject expertise.
• 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 where relevant.
• Contribute to enterprise, business development and/or public engagement activities of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader.
• Promotes equality and values diversity acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture.