Lecturer (Teaching) Full-time

Lecturer (Teaching)

The Institute of Infection, Immunity and Transplantation (IIIT) at UCL is seeking an enthusiastic and talented immunologist to join our thriving academic community as a Lecturer (Teaching). This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to one of the UK's leading centres for immunology research and education. You will play a key role in delivering outstanding, research-led teaching across our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes while helping to shape the future of immunology education at UCL.

Whether your expertise lies in computational immunology, cancer immunology, immunotherapeutics, cellular immunology, or a related area, you will have the opportunity to bring your specialist knowledge into the classroom and contribute to an innovative and expanding teaching portfolio.

The Institute of Infection, Immunity and Transplantation (IIT) is Department of the UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences comprising approximately 170 staff, including 40 academic/teaching faculty and 14 facilities or administrative support staff. We undertake discovery/translational research and teaching in the immunology of health and disease, and in pathogen biology. We are predominantly situated at the UCL Hampsted Campus within the Pears Building and UCL laboratories withing the Royal Free Hospital Building.

The Division is committed to delivering research led teaching. Our guiding principle is that we teach about what we do. Our cutting-edge research and clinical practice inform and shape the teaching we deliver, ensuring that our programmes and modules cover the most current thinking. In response to increased student demand and the introduction of new modules and programmes this fixed-term Lecturer (Teaching) post has been created to strengthen teaching capacity across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. This post will support strategic curriculum development, provide academic leadership across key programmes, and ensure continuity of teaching and student support.

Information about our programmes and modules can be found at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infection-immunity/study.

Further information about the Division can be found at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infection-immunity/.

About the role

In response to increased student demand and the introduction of new modules and programmes this fixed-term Lecturer (Teaching) post has been created to strengthen teaching capacity across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. The postholder will support undergraduate and postgraduate teaching across the Division and based on their specific areas of immunology expertise, enhance and add breadth to our existing teaching portfolio. This post will support strategic curriculum development, provide academic leadership across key programmes, and ensure continuity of teaching and student support.

Main duties include:

• Act as Deputy Programme Lead for postgraduate taught (PGT) programme
• Contribute to the planning, design, development and delivery of modules within relevant subject areas (with focus on either computational Immunology, cancer Immunology, Immunotherapeutics or Cellular immunology)
• Design, and deliver high-quality teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in infection, immunity and related biomedical sciences
• Plan, set and mark coursework, practical assessments and examinations, ensuring timely and high-quality feedback to students.
• Provide pastoral and academic support to undergraduate and postgraduate students, for example, as personal tutor
• Contribute to teaching delivery and assessment across Institute and Faculty programmes
• Contribute to curriculum development, ensuring programmes remain research-led, innovative and aligned with UCL's strategic educational priorities

The post is funded for 4 years in the first instance.

About you

We are looking for a passionate educator and immunologist who is committed to delivering an outstanding student experience and inspiring future scientists.

You will hold a PhD in (Molecular or Cellular) immunology or a closely related discipline and will have postdoctoral research experience, together with a strong understanding of contemporary immunology research and practice.

You should be able to demonstrate:

• Expertise in molecular immunology, cellular immunology or a closely related field.
• Experience of teaching or supporting teaching in higher education.
• The ability to communicate complex scientific concepts clearly and engagingly to diverse student audiences.
• A commitment to research-led education and student-centred learning.
• Excellent organisational, communication and collaborative working skills.
• Enthusiasm for curriculum development and educational innovation.

Experience in cancer immunology, immunotherapy or computational immunology would be particularly welcome.

The successful candidate will focus on the delivery of immunology content at all levels (undergraduate and postgraduate) in the form of lectures and tutorials as well as design and delivery of assessments across Divisional modules and programmes. You will work collaboratively with colleagues to contribute your knowledge and experience to develop novel modes of teaching and assessment.

You should have experience in delivering teaching with an immunology focus at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Evidence of a commitment to research-led teaching will be a key prerequisite of the role. Your application should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

All applications must include a supporting statement, telling us, using examples, how you meet the essential criteria listed in the job description. Applications without a supporting statement will be rejected.

If you have any queries about the role or application process, technical issues, or need reasonable adjustments or a more accessible format to apply for this job online, please contact the staffing team at hr.ii@ucl.ac.uk.

We particularly welcome applications from individuals who are passionate about translating cutting-edge immunology into engaging learning experiences and who are excited by the opportunity to help shape the education of future biomedical scientists, clinicians and researchers.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Our department holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment and demonstrable impact in advancing gender equality.