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Job Description Position Details School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music
Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,636 to £46,049 with potential progression once in post to £48,822
Grade: 7
Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to June 2027
Closing date: 10th May 2026
UK and International travel may be required for this role
Background
To teach and advise undergraduate, postgraduate or CPD students within own subject area and within an established teaching programme, supervised by member of staff with ultimate responsibility for the design, delivery, and assessment of the teaching programme. Contribute to the administrative running of the Department.
Role Summary
- Deliver high quality teaching at UG and PG level in an established programme.
- Convene and deliver two optional modules: Year 2: ‘Art, Architecture, and Design in Fin-de-siécle Vienna’ and Year 3: ‘Fashioning Flesh and Technology: Modernism and the Body in Germany 1918-1933’; convene and/or contribute to the delivery of other modules including the Year 1 modules: ‘Historical Concepts in the History of Art,’ ‘Debates and Methods in the History of Art, ‘Object and Medium I and II’ and ‘A History of Art in 20 Objects’; MA modules: ‘Criticism and Methods in the History of Art’ and ‘Research Training and Methods A and B,’ plus undertake associated marking and assessment.
- Contribute where necessary to other modules and marking.
- Supervision of BA and MA dissertations as appropriate in own specialism and beyond.
- Fulfil Departmental administrative roles as required by the Head of Department.
Main Duties
- Teach courses at a range of levels within specified subject area and within own area of subject specialism to undergraduates, postgraduates and CPD students, predominantly through allocated lectures and seminars, so that the Department’s teaching objectives are met.
- Contribute to the design of modules with other colleagues.
- Plan and prepare own teaching, including the use of online learning environments in accordance with the established objectives of the teaching programme.
- Devise and supervise projects, student dissertations, and practical work.
- Develop an approach to planning and reviewing own teaching.
- Undertake full range of responsibilities in relation to supervision, marking, and examining. (Summative assessment, including assessed work contributing to the final award – as a mark or as a credit – such as unseen examinations, essays, dissertations or presentations, is subject to validation by the academic supervisor.)
- Provide pastoral support to students at BA and MA level through individual and group tutorials.
- Attend field trips (including in EU) if required.
- Undertake personal professional development in teaching, including self-reflection on own teaching, using student and peer review feedback, to enhance own teaching and learning processes.
- Contribute to knowledge transfer on own specialism that is of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader.
- Undertake management/administration arising from teaching.
- Contribute to Departmental/School teaching-related activities and teaching-related administration.
- Contribute to administrative running of the Department beyond teaching-related business.
- Promote equality and values diversity acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture.
Person Specification
- A PhD in the History of Art with a specialism in the German and/or Austrian Modernism.
- Teaching experience in the history of art, especially in relation to German and Austrian visual culture at BA and/or MA level.
- Experience of teaching, assessing, and supporting students in a university department or equivalent Ability to organise co-taught modules with other members of staff.
- Ability to teach works of art in-situ and lead study visits where required.
- Ability and flexibility to fit easily into existing teams to deliver a range of modules.
- A specialism and interest in an area of History of Art and/or exhibitions that can contribute to other modules, module development, dissertation supervisions.
- Ability to provide pastoral support to students at BA and MA level
- Excellent time management
- Fluent written and spoken English, with working knowledge of German if possible.
- Ability to design and deliver module materials successfully.
- Ability to assess and organise resources effectively.
- Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes.
- Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day-to-day activity in own area that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly.
Informal enquiries to Gregory Salter, email: g.j.salter@bham.ac.uk
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