Senior Lecturer (Learning Enhancement and Academic Development)
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Grade 9: £58,225 - £67,468
Hours: 35 hours per week (1.0 FTE)
Contract Basis: Open Ended (permanent)
Ref: CVEC00094A
Are you an experienced educator with a proven experience of supporting colleagues to develop their teaching, learning, and assessment? Do you combine deep pedagogic expertise with the creativity, adaptability, and people skills to inspire change? If so, we’d love you to join our Learning Enhancement and Academic Development (LEAD) Centre at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. We are in an exciting period as we launch our new Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy, and are looking for a colleague who can play a key leadership role in enhancing practice across QMU, including our domestic and international partnerships and QMU Online, our online portfolio.
At QMU, social justice shapes our vision and values. We believe education should be compassionate, inclusive, and transformative. Our mission is to help create a better society through teaching, research, and innovation, supported by a collaborative culture where both staff and students can thrive. We know balance matters so we offer 38 days’ annual leave, flexible working, and a beautiful East Lothian campus just six minutes by train from Edinburgh city centre and a short cycle from the coast.
As a member of the LEAD Centre, your focus will be on working with academic and professional services colleagues to build capacity, confidence, and creativity in their LTA practice. You will design and lead evidence-informed academic development opportunities; support EDI, Sustainability/ Employability/ Decolonising approaches across our learning and teaching provision; mentor and inspire staff through our accredited academic development programmes, including our TLA in TE short course, the new PgCAP due to start in Jan 2026 and ASPIRE, our CPD route to Fellowship. You will champion inclusive policy, practice and pedagogy at institutional and sector levels and support and grow pedagogic research and scholarship, shaping our approach to teaching and learning.
We are looking for someone who brings extensive experience in enhancing teaching, learning, and assessment at an institutional level. You should have a track record of supporting and inspiring colleagues to innovate and improve their practice and the adaptability to respond to change, the vision to see new possibilities, and the interpersonal skills to build strong, collaborative relationships.
If you want to join a university where your expertise will make a lasting impact - both on the colleagues you support and the students they inspire - this is your opportunity to lead and shape learning and teaching at QMU.
For informal enquiries about the role, please contact Vikki Hill, Director of Learning Enhancement and Academic Development,
The closing date for this position is Wednesday 3rd September 2025 and interviews will be held on Monday 22nd September 2025 (hybrid options will be available).
Please note, this vacancy may close earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a high volume of applications.
Should you wish to apply for this vacancy please visit Vacancy Page and download the job description and complete an application form.
This role does meet the minimum requirements set by UKVI to enable sponsorship of migrant workers.
As a university, we are committed to the Researcher Development Concordat and were, in fact, the first Scottish Higher Education Institute (and part of the first UK cohort of institutes) to publicly declare our commitment to its principles.
Queen Margaret University is committed to equality of opportunity for all by providing a supportive, flexible and inclusive working environment, and we welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds. Please have a look at our Diversity, Wellbeing and Inclusion Calendar.
We are proud to hold an Athena SWAN Bronze Award which recognises the advancement of gender equality at QMU. Find out more about Athena SWAN here. We have a number of family friendly policies and are happy to consider job share applications.