Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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Job Info
* Job Identification: 108
* Job Category: Academic and Research
* Posting Date: 01/02/2025, 10:00 AM
* Apply Before: 01/31/2025, 11:59 PM
* Job Schedule: Part time
* Job Shift: Standard
* Locations: Arts, Design and Media - Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Part Time (18.5 hours per week), Permanent
The part-time starting salary is normally £52,996.00 pro rata per annum, with progression available in post to £57,602.00 pro rata per annum.
Grade: USL
Interviews will take place week commencing 24 March 2025.
What’s in it for you?
In return for your dedication and hard work, you will benefit from ongoing opportunities for personal and professional development, as well as the following key benefits:
* Opportunity for hybrid working.
* Generous annual leave entitlement of 40 days (including bank holidays and closure periods).
* An attractive direct contribution pension scheme, or the option to retain LGPS for existing and previous members.
* Wellbeing advice and support through our Employee Assistance Programme.
* Cycle to Work Scheme.
Job Summary
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (RBC), part of Birmingham City University, wishes to recruit a Senior Lecturer – Head of Recorded Media for our Acting Courses. RBC is home to a thriving community of practitioners and researchers who serve a diverse student body.
The post holder will be the Head of Recorded Media and responsible for the development and delivery of Screen and Radio Acting across all courses. A background in TV and/or film production as well as acting, and the ability to communicate clearly with production staff and technicians will be necessary. You will be responsible for sourcing scripts for screen and radio work and for the creation of original short films for the BA Acting Course, some of which may be entered into national and international competitions.
You will also be responsible for the employment of freelance contractors for the production of our recorded media provision and have the ability to teach acting classes across all courses, as required.
You will work with the wider team in the planning and development of the curriculum timetable for the whole school of acting. While this is primarily a teaching post, opportunities to develop a research profile are available.
Minimum Requirements
* Hold a teaching degree or diploma or be prepared to work towards a BCU Post Graduate Certificate.
* Educated to a Higher Academic Qualification.
* Professional experience in Recorded Media.
* Strong Organisational skills.
* The flexibility to work occasionally outside normal office hours.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Demonstrate an understanding of issues relating to equal opportunity and diversity, as they relate to actor training, teaching, and curriculum development.
* Leadership skills and an ability to collaborate.
Come and be a part of the team.
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The appointed candidate will normally be employed through our subsidiary company BCU Support Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Birmingham City University.
About Us
At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.
Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.
Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds its expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning.
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