Senior Lecturer in Computer Science

Annual Leave: 35 days plus standard public holidays and an additional 4 days including the closure of our office between Christmas and New Year

Location: College Lane Campus

Applications are invited for oneacademic position as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire within the Foundations and Software Engineering academic subject group

Main duties and responsibilities

The post holder will contribute to teaching and learning activities including; delivering high quality teaching, learning and assessment to our students at all levels.  As a senior lecturer, the postholder will be expected to have sufficient experience to lead and develop modules and teaching materials in the advertised areas.

The postholder will also provide pastoral and academic support for home and international students. The Senior Lecturer will play an important role as part of a team incorporating the Head of Department or Subject Group Leader, programme leader, module leaders, the professional, administrative and technical staff (if applicable), the Dean of School and the Associate Deans of School. The post holder will also be expected to contribute to teaching in mainstream areas of Computer Science, and modules with particularly large groups of students.

Skills and experience required

You will have demonstrable experience of teaching and lecturing the computer science subjects of the advertised specialism at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as possessing breadth or depth of specialist knowledge in the advertised discipline to develop teaching. You will have demonstrable experience and expertise in all or some of the following areas:

• Introductory programming, including basic algorithms, specifications, and programming style.
• Object-orientated programming and OO design.
• Software engineering: software configuration management (git), software development methods (SCRAM, extreme programming), project planning (e.g. Kanban), Project risk assessment.
• Elementary discrete mathematics (including probability): basic models and methods.
• Computer Architecture, especially that of microcontrollers and embedded systems.
• Web design and mobile computing.

You will possess excellent communication skills in English and be able to contribute to curriculum development.

Qualifications required

An undergraduate degree or equivalent level 6 qualification in a relevant discipline and a postgraduate qualification i.e. Masters and/or PhD(completed or close to completion, e.g. has submitted final thesis) in a Computer Science/relevant field or significant demonstrable experience in the required areas are essential.

Recruitment Incentive

This post of Lecturer in Computer Science attracts a £5,000 Recruitment Incentive payable to the successful candidate in their first salary payment after joining the University of Hertfordshire for the first time. For more details see the Job Description.

Please view the job description and person specification for a full list of the duties and essential criteria. Please attach a personal statement showing clearly how your skills and experience match the Person Specification.

An appointment to this role may require an Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) certificate.

Contact Details/Informal Enquiries: Dr Simon Trainis, Head of Department of Computer Science [email protected]

Interview Date: TBC