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Job Title: Teaching Associate in Japanese Language
School/Department: Language Centre (School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies)
Salary: £28,695 – £37,394 per annum, pro rata, depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance
Job Family and Level: Research and Teaching, Level 4
Contract Status: Permanent – available from 1st September 2015
Hours of Work: full-time, 36.25 hours per week.
Location: Trent Building, University Campus
Reporting to: Marisa Marmo (Director of the Language Centre)
Purpose of the role:
Teaching Associate in Japanese Language with teaching and administrative duties.
Main duties and responsibilities:
· Teaching 18 hours per week (beginners to advanced level). Teaching hours are from 9am to 6.15pm
· Module convener for Japanese modules
· Help to develop and maintain course programme for Japanese modules and produce module information sheets and dossiers of study materials.
· Produce written, oral and listening examinations and continuous assessment materials and mark schemes for Japanese modules.
· Marking and second-marking oral, written and listening examinations for all teaching groups, including resit papers.
· Contribute to the further development of language teaching and learning resources, including technology enhanced learning and web-based provision
· Liaison with home department tutors of Language Centre students and with other language teaching colleagues.
· Liaison and collaboration with overseas campuses in China and Malaysia
· Enrolment of new students / dealing with student enquiries / advising on modules.
· Attendance of Language Centre departmental, module information and exam board meetings.
· Personal tutor for School Erasmus students.
· Any other duties, appropriate to the grade and role, that arise with respect to the efficient running of the Language Centre.
This job description may be subject to revision following discussion with the person appointed and forms part of the contract of employment.
Person Specification
Essential / DesirableQualifications/ Education / Degree in Japanese language or equivalent qualification
Native or near native command of Japanese
PGCE or equivalent teaching qualification / 15 credits of a UK Postgraduate Teaching Certificate or Education-related Masters.
Skills/Training / Ability to deliver modules to multicultural groups
Competent user of IT for teaching, administration and material development
Use of a range of teaching methodologies / Ability to teach Business Japanese.
Use of digital language laboratories
Use of a virtual learning environment such as Moodle
Experience / Proven track record in university teaching and experience of convening modules.
Experience in designing syllabi and examinations from beginners to advanced level.
Experience of using e-learning tools for pedagogic development. / Teaching on a higher education institution-wide language programme
Submission of bids for funding for language teaching projects
Experience of roles of responsibility such as quality assurance and exams procedures
Experience of translation and interpreting
Personal Attribute / Good communicator
Effective communication skills in English
Able to establish a good rapport with students
Adaptable and willing to work as a team member
Excellent time management and organisational skills
Able to take initiative
Other / Commitment to keep up to date with developments in Japanese language teaching and continued development of language teaching pedagogy
School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
The City
Nottingham is an attractive city of some half a million inhabitants, centrally located and with excellent access to all parts of the country and Europe. It has a varied and relatively low-priced housing stock, good schools, high-quality shopping and sporting facilities, and lively cultural activities (two theatres, an arts cinema, a number of cinema complexes and a major concert hall). The City is close to the M1 and M42 motorways, providing rapid access to London, the North, the West Midlands, the South West and South Wales. There is a regular weekday train service to London with an average journey time of 1 hour 45 minutes. East Midlands Airport is only 20 minutes from the city by car and has frequent flights to a wide range of European destinations, including Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Amsterdam and Dublin. There are also frequent flights within the UK to Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast. For other destinations, Birmingham Airport is less than 1 hour’s drive on the M42.
The University
The University of Nottingham moved to its present site to the west of the City in 1926 and obtained its Royal Charter in 1948. A second purpose-built campus, approximately one mile from University Park, opened in Autumn 1999. In addition, the University has two overseas campuses, one located in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China, and the second situated near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The University currently has a combined undergraduate and postgraduate student population of almost 40,000, divided between the Faculties of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, Education, Science, Engineering, Medicine and Health Sciences. With its attractive campus and the location of all halls of residence on the two campuses, the University has proved very popular with undergraduate candidates. The University’s Graduate School, founded in 1994, acts as an umbrella for the recruitment, training and well-being of a rapidly expanding postgraduate body. The University is strongly committed to its position as a major teaching and research university, and promotes a strong research ethos through the proactive Strategy Groups of the University Research Committee, and through excellent study leave arrangements, generous research and conference funding, and good IT and library facilities.
The Faculty of Arts
The Faculty of Arts is divided into three budget-holding Schools: English; Humanities (Archaeology, Classics, Music, Philosophy, Theology, History, Art History); Cultures, Languages and Area Studies (American and Canadian Studies; Culture, Film and Media; French; German; Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies; Russian and Slavonic Studies; the Language Centre). The Faculty comprises around 4400 undergraduate and 670 postgraduate students, and an annual undergraduate intake of nearly 1350 students. The current Dean of the Faculty of Arts is Professor Stephen Mumford (Philosophy).
The School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
The School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies began its life as a budgetary unit on 1 August 2011. Its current Head is Judith Still, Professor of French Studies. The Head of School manages the School in close consultation with the School Manager and the heads of its eight constituent departments. She is responsible for the global budget, including salary costs, for the six departments, though annual operating budgets are devolved to departments. She is also responsible for all staffing matters within the School, in consultation with Heads of Department, who continue to oversee the teaching, research and administrative functions of their respective departments.