King's College London

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About Us

King’s Foundations is a department within King’s College London that provides high-quality international pathway, academic skills and English language preparation courses for King's students. We are looking for an experienced educator to join our team and coordinate the development and delivery of our King’s International Foundation Programme (KIF). The successful candidate will be a well-rounded leader in educational development including in the use of digital education to enhance programmes of study.

The International Foundation Co-ordinator will work with the Head of Programme and three current coordinators to oversee the development of the Foundation programme, ensuring that the learning outcomes, content, assessments, and modes of delivery prepare students for UG degrees at King’s.

We are looking for someone with in-depth knowledge of level 3 international foundation provision. They will hold expertise in assessment design; programme, pathway and module management; educational leadership; programme development and student support.

The successful candidate will collaborate with staff and students across the university to ensure our provision meets the needs of students progressing through the programme. They will oversee one of four pathways ensuring that students experience a high quality and consistent learning journey across their modules.

This is a great career development opportunity for an aspiring academic or teaching colleague at King’s Foundations who wishes to step into an academic Coordinator position and help shape the future direction of the programme.

We have intentionally left the areas of responsibility (as laid out above) open to encourage a broad range of colleagues to apply for this position, and final responsibilities will be finalised based on the successful candidate's preference and experience alongside the needs of the programme.

About The Role

Key responsibilities

• To oversee the development and delivery of the Foundation curriculum, ensuring that the learning outcomes, content, assessments, and modes of delivery prepare students for common destination degrees at King’s.
• To oversee one of four pathways ensuring that students experience a high quality and consistent learning journey across their modules.
• To develop effective working relationships with academic and professional services colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds, both within and outside the department.
• To ensure that the quality of our programmes of study adhere to stated College and sector standards.
• To help drive innovation and inclusion in education and pedagogy within the department, making sure that this aligns with relevant departmental and college strategies.
• To embed the principles of assessment for learning across the programme
• Engage with pedagogic research and maintain a scholarly output to enhance learning and teaching practices;
• To line manage teaching staff within the department.
• To teach up to 150 hours per year on the KIF programme.
• To take an active role in the department’s leadership team, helping to inspire positive change that enables staff to deliver an excellent educational experience.
• To undertake other associated duties as deemed appropriate by the Head of Programme or Department Executive; for example, managing projects and other workstreams.

Please note that as some of the students you teach will be under 18, and as you will be required to act as Personal Tutor to these students, an enhanced check by the Disclosure and Barring Service is a prerequisite for the role.

In addition, although King’s Foundations is based in the iconic Bush House, a Grade II listed building that formerly housed the BBC World Service, you may also be required to work on any of the King’s campuses, or from home.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Undergraduate or postgraduate degree and a relevant, recognised teaching qualification, complete or near completion.
2. Experience of following quality assurance processes to develop curricula at module or programme level on a programme of study at pre-UG level that enables progression to HE.
3. The ability to work with students and staff from a range of backgrounds
4. Demonstrated commitment to promoting and implementing the values of equality, diversity, and inclusion in education.    
5. Experience of successfully embedding principles of assessment for learning at a module or programme level
6. Ability to motivate, manage and support others to achieve shared goals.  
7. Understanding of the challenges and opportunities involved in coordinating Foundation programmes in a UK HE setting.
8. Fellowship of HEA or willing to work towards it and secure within 3 years.   

Downloading a copy of our Job Description 

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.

Interviews are due to be held on WC 14th July.

This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service and/or Occupational Health clearances.