Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Commercial) October 2018

Appointment of DeputyPrincipal lecturer (Team Leader) Vice-ChancellorMedia Production (Commercial)& Performance OctoberMay 2019 2018

University of Sunderland City Campus Chester Road Sunderland SR1 3SD

T: 0191 515 2000 E: [email protected] www.sunderland.ac.uk 02 About the role

Take on a key role, shaping the future of the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries at an exciting time of investment in media.

Led by Professor Arabella Plouviez, the faculty spans both of our Sunderland sites – the riverside St Peter’s Campus and our central City Campus.

As Principal Lecturer (Team Leader) for the Media Production and Performance team, you will lead a diverse group of academics delivering film, media, radio and performance programmes.

You will be part of the School of Media and Communications and will collaborate with colleagues in the School of Art and Design, exploring new opportunities to enhance student experience and outcomes. You will also participate in decision making and planning as part of the faculty management group.

Working with high-profile external partners, accrediting bodies and industry innovators, you will help to consolidate our excellent portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and research activity.

You will be encouraged to seek new opportunities to develop the offer, particularly Contents linked to the growth in digital, games and media sectors in the north east. 03 About the role The city of Sunderland is undergoing transformative cultural renewal and the 04 Role profile University, particularly through our Faculty, is central to these developments. 10 About the University

In joining us as at the University of Sunderland, you will experience our friendly 12 Welcome to Sunderland and flexible culture and have the opportunity to make a real difference at a civic 14 Our University community institution committed to providing life-changing opportunities to our students.

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Principal Lecturer Job Title: Principal Lecturer – Team Leader, Media Production & Performance

Reference No: Reports to: Head of School of Media and Communications Responsible For: Media Production and Performance Team Grade: Grade G Working Hours: 37 hours per week for nominal purposes Faculty/Service: Faculty of Arts & Creative Industries Location: Sunderland

Main Purpose of To provide academic leadership and operational management to the Media Role: Production and Performance team in line with Faculty plans and objectives.

Key Responsibilities As team leader you will: and Accountabilities: • Develop and lead the academic direction of the team. • Set a clear purpose and team objectives in line with the Faculty and the School of Media and Communications’ plans and objectives. • Work with the Head of School to develop and enhance the academic offer • Ensure the team’s resources are deployed effectively, to include:

o Individual workload allocation, in line with the University’s Framework for Academic Workloading and Faculty budget requirements; o Management of the team non-staffing budget; o Management of staff leave and other absences. • Manage and motivate academic staff within the team, to include:

o recruitment, selection and induction; o performance management; o regular communication; o carrying out appraisals; o supporting individual professional development; • Provide operational management and oversight to the range of academic activities within the team and across the subject area; to include:

o Teaching and Learning; o Research; o Employability; o Student Recruitment; o Programme Leadership; o Module Leadership; o Student Satisfaction; o Quality Assurance and Enhancement

04 • Undertake the administrative duties associated with the role of Team Leader. • Contribute as part of the Faculty management group to Faculty and School of Media and Communications’ planning and strategic objectives.

As principal lecturer you will: • Design, plan, review and innovate in activities and materials that support student learning and deliver either across a range of modules or within a subject area. • Encourage the use of appropriate teaching, learning support and assessment methods. • Identify areas where current provision is in need of revision or improvement. • Teach into a subject area within the current provision. • Set, mark and assess work and provide feedback to students. • Develop and support individuals’ research ambitions. • Conduct individual and/or collaborative research projects, • Identify sources of funding and contribute to the process of securing funds and subsequently plan and deliver projects that are funded, as Co- Investigator or possibly as Principal Investigator. • Extend, transform and apply knowledge acquired from scholarship and research to teaching and to reach-out activities. • Write or contribute to publications or disseminate research and reach-out findings using other appropriate media such as presentations at conferences or exhibition of work in other appropriate events. • Maintain knowledge and understanding at the forefront of the academic discipline and, if appropriate, also at the forefront of the relevant area of professional practice. • Provide expert advice through subject area knowledge, understanding and know-how to students, researchers and other academic colleagues. • Lead, develop and/or participate in internal networks for example by chairing and/or participating in Institutional committees. • Develop, lead and/or participate in external networks, for example with other educational bodies. • Collaborate with colleagues in other institutions directly or through networks such as learned bodies. • Responsible for dealing with referred issues for students within own educational programmes. • Provide first line support for colleagues, referring them to sources of further help if required. • Resolve problems affecting the delivery of academic programmes and/or projects within own areas of responsibility and in accordance with regulations, procedures and good practice. • Make decisions regarding the operational and strategic aspects of own educational programme, contribute pro-actively to decision making within the School and possibly Faculty and University. • Identify and respond to opportunities for strategic development of new courses, projects, income generation or other appropriate activity. • Contribute to quality assurance and take the lead in quality enhancement processes.

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Part 2A: Essential and Desirable Criteria These criteria are

assessed at the short Essential listing stage. Qualifications and Professional Memberships: • First degree or equivalent professional qualification in a relevant discipline; The essential criteria • Postgraduate qualification. must be met in order to be eligible for interview. Experience: • Teaching in subject area(s) relevant to the Media Production & Performance Team; • Providing effective academic leadership e.g. as a Programme Leader; • Recognised externally as a scholar, teacher or authority in the subject area; • Track record of peer-reviewed published work or peer-reviewed public exhibition; • Delivering and designing academic programmes; • Managing and motivating staff in higher education (HE); • Delivering improvements in key performance indicators relevant to HE.

Desirable Qualifications, Experience and Professional Memberships: • PhD/Doctorate • Experience of supervision of PhD/Doctorate students.

Special Achievement of HEA Fellowship Circumstances: Principal Lecturers without Higher Education Academy Fellowship status, will be expected to achieve Fellowship within two years of commencing their role.

Part 2B: Key Competencies Competencies are Key Knowledge and Expertise (role specific): assessed at the interview/selection Academic Leadership and Practice: testing stage • Contributes to the long term planning and development of learning programmes. • Continuously reviews areas identified for improvement and develops content and delivery methods, learning support and assessment mechanisms. • Reflects on own and others practice and develops insights into the learning process. • Mentors other staff outside the immediate work team. • Develops the whole curriculum based on the evaluation of current practices, includes new areas of thinking and assesses future needs

06 • Innovates in the design of learning climates and develops ways of enhancing the learning experience. • Ensures that the diverse needs of learners are reflected in the curriculum. • Develops approaches to assessment, evaluation and quality control that enhance the learning processes.

Achieving Results: • Places students at the heart of all we do. • Seeks out, and acts upon, feedback to enhance the student experience. • Accepts personal responsibility for the ongoing quality and enhancement of own work. • Displays a positive, responsive, ‘can do’ attitude. • Demonstrates a strong commitment to continuous improvement.

Navigating Change: • Is adaptable in dealing with change both personally and professionally. • Knows how to pro-actively challenge the status quo while respecting the past. • Provides the necessary direction and impetus in leading others to change, being sensitive to the impact of change on others. • Forecasts changes in the market or environment.

Flexible Thinking: • Implements creative solutions to problems. • Thinks strategically and with business acumen.

Generic (HERA) Competencies

Team Leadership: • Creates a culture that facilitates and promotes partnership working and rewards achievement from united effort as well as individual success. • Finds ways to improve individual and team performance through learning and development. • Demonstrates the value of learning by being involved in development activities and taking action to meet own needs. • Ensures that projects and incidents are evaluated and that learning from success and mistakes is abstracted and applied.

Analysis and Research: • Integrates concepts and results of research to add to existing body of knowledge. • Develops new areas for research and advances research methods, processes and practices.

Communications: • Is regarded as an engaging and well informed communicator. • Excites and enthuses audiences with mixed levels of understanding. • Marshals information and presents compelling arguments. • Negotiates to achieve mutually satisfactory outcomes. • Is regarded as an interesting, readable and well informed conveyor of ideas. • Chooses and uses appropriate styles and media to influence the views of the others. • Actively canvases feedback and adapts approaches accordingly.

Decision Making: • Combines rational analysis and experience to take long-lasting and or complex decisions that can be implemented. • Takes account of immediate and potential factors and their possible impact on

07 successful implementation across the Institution or by external bodies. • Identifies and introduces emerging or concealed issues into consideration to ensure that all impacting factors are assessed. • Enables the group to test options and assess the merits of likely outcomes against the resources needed for implementation and the chances of achievement measured against various success criteria. • Designs processes to assist complex and sustainable decision making. • Identifies and introduces possible options previously not considered and implications that may have wider and longer term impact. • Provides criteria for assessing the merits of decisions.

Liaising and Networking: • Recognises the need for and sets up sustainable networks to develop institutional best practice and innovation. • Identifies gaps in existing networks and fills them to develop approaches and partnership working across the Institution. • Recognises when networks have achieved their purpose and acts to replace them appropriately. • Recognises the need for and sets up external networks to promote the work of the Institution. • Identifies gaps in existing external networks and acts to fill them to develop collaborative approaches to promote the Institution and achieve mutual benefit. • Recognises when external networks have achieved their purpose and takes appropriate action to replace them.

Planning and Organising: • Ensures that planning processes are robust and well informed. • Gathers intelligence to influence the Institutions internal and external operations. • Uses opportunities to create plan resources to secure the Institutions long term future. • Uses planning processes to involve key stakeholders and gain their commitment to implementation.

Date Completed: April 2019

08 09 Context Our campuses where students have access to the best facilities in Europe. National Glass Centre We have over 20,000 students based In Sunderland we operate from is also the new home of the acclaimed About the University of in our University of Sunderland two campuses – the Sir Tom Cowie Northern Gallery for Contemporary campuses on the North East coast, Campus at St Peter’s on the banks of Art, bringing new art and exhibiting in London and Hong Kong and the River Wear and our City Campus. artists to Sunderland’s riverside. with our international partners in Sunderland Significant and ongoing capital 14 countries across the world. The University has a ten-year ‘One Following an extensive consultation exercise with our stakeholders, the University agreed investment has transformed Campus’ vision to integrate the two We are proud of our long-established the City Campus, which includes a Strategic Plan for the period 2016 - 2021. This plan has driven all of the strategic campus sites in Sunderland with a series commitment to widening participation, CitySpace, a sports and social facility, of strategically placed capital projects. developments now underway and is underpinned by a set of robust performance world-leading and relevant research, and our new Sciences Complex Over £4m has been invested in our measures. and strong public and private sector supporting areas such as pharmacy, collaborations. We have a track-record psychology, pharmaceutical science, University of Sunderland in London – in providing graduates valued by nursing, paramedic practice and situated at Canary Wharf in the heart of employers and society. Our values are sports sciences. Our new School of the City’s business and financial district. Our Vision explicit in our Strategic Plan and set Medicine will be located here. Our Hong Kong operation is located out the kind of organisation we are, To be bold and inspirational in providing education, research and creative practice, which Living Lab is a unique, purpose- at the heart of the Central trading including the principles that guide our offers transformative experiences to students, staff, communities and business partners built environment where University district overlooking Victoria Harbour. activities, decisions and behaviours. It delivers business, finance and in the UK and across the world. researchers, staff, students and At Sunderland, we believe that healthcare partners can test and tourism programmes as well as universities have a role to play in a collaborate on new technologies operating as the University’s South fair and democratic society, and we and treatments in real world East Asia Hub for recruitment and Our Ambitions measure success not just by our awards settings, raising the quality of care partnership development in the and league table results but by the and improving patient safety. region. The University has almost contribution we make to society. 6,000 active alumni in Hong Kong Hope Street Xchange is our flagship and has over 20 years of operational According to the Times Good University centre for enterprise and innovation experience in this region. Guide 2019 we recruit the highest and offers inspirational space for proportion of students from the most business-to-business engagement Our recruitment deprived parts of Britain. We are proud and fledgling enterprises. The first and global reach of our widening participation record FabLab in the region is also based UK recruitment for 2018/19 will be which is a result of our long-standing here and provides open access to Life Changers Knowledge Creators Tomorrow Makers in line with the previous year, which commitment to raise aspirations the latest digital fabrication and A world leading contemporary An institution that is acknowledged A University whose graduates are is pleasing in a highly competitive and promote social inclusion. rapid prototyping technologies. University that is distinctive in globally as an exemplar in the creation adaptive creative thinkers with the home market. International and supporting learning at all stages in life. of knowledge, skills and learning that personal attributes to become the We received a Silver TEF rating in Our award-winning Sir Tom Cowie EU student numbers are likely to is work relevant in the 21st Century. leaders and tomorrow makers of our societies and economies. 2017. The assessors applauded Campus is adjacent to St Peter’s Church exceed target, and in London and our “institutional culture that - a seat of learning since 674AD - Hong Kong our student numbers facilitates excellent teaching through and is now host to our extensive continue to grow year-on-year. a comprehensive professional facilities in media, film production, We are acknowledged as one of the development programme and funding engineering, computing, business and UK’s top providers of transnational commitments to support pedagogical law. Over the summer we have made education with over 6,000 students research”. We were also recognised for significant investment in our new studying for University of Sunderland our students’ exposure to professional student Gateway, our one-stop-shop for academic awards with 21 quality- practice, which enhances their personal student support and advice. In addition assured partners across the world development and overall experience. we have transformed our catering offer including in Malaysia, Singapore, with modern stylish food outlets at Boundary Breakers Learning Engagers Future Shapers Hong Kong, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, both St Peter’s and at City Campus. We An institution that fosters a sense of A University where students want to A leading anchor institution in the Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Trinidad, have invested in the refurbishment of pride amongst its staff, students and study due to the quality of teaching, North East making significant social, Uzbekistan, and Tashkent. alumni as it makes a real difference the relevance and accessibility of our economic and cultural contributions National Glass Centre, a notable visitor to the world in which we live through programmes and the reputation we to our locality, displaying innovation, attraction and home to the University’s its research, innovation and practice. enjoy for partnering with students entrepreneurship, financial stability, and personalising their experience. efficiency and sustainability in glass and ceramics programmes, our approach and delivery.

0410 See the full document at Strategic Plan 2016 – 2021 www.sunderland.ac.uk 05 Context Our campuses where students have access to the best facilities in Europe. National Glass Centre We have over 20,000 students based In Sunderland we operate from is also the new home of the acclaimed About the University of in our University of Sunderland two campuses – the Sir Tom Cowie Northern Gallery for Contemporary campuses on the North East coast, Campus at St Peter’s on the banks of Art, bringing new art and exhibiting in London and Hong Kong and the River Wear and our City Campus. artists to Sunderland’s riverside. with our international partners in Sunderland Significant and ongoing capital 14 countries across the world. The University has a ten-year ‘One Following an extensive consultation exercise with our stakeholders, the University agreed investment has transformed Campus’ vision to integrate the two We are proud of our long-established the City Campus, which includes a Strategic Plan for the period 2016 - 2021. This plan has driven all of the strategic campus sites in Sunderland with a series commitment to widening participation, CitySpace, a sports and social facility, of strategically placed capital projects. developments now underway and is underpinned by a set of robust performance world-leading and relevant research, and our new Sciences Complex Over £4m has been invested in our measures. and strong public and private sector supporting areas such as pharmacy, collaborations. We have a track-record psychology, pharmaceutical science, University of Sunderland in London – in providing graduates valued by nursing, paramedic practice and situated at Canary Wharf in the heart of employers and society. Our values are sports sciences. Our new School of the City’s business and financial district. Our Vision explicit in our Strategic Plan and set Medicine will be located here. Our Hong Kong operation is located out the kind of organisation we are, To be bold and inspirational in providing education, research and creative practice, which Living Lab is a unique, purpose- at the heart of the Central trading including the principles that guide our offers transformative experiences to students, staff, communities and business partners built environment where University district overlooking Victoria Harbour. activities, decisions and behaviours. It delivers business, finance and in the UK and across the world. researchers, staff, students and At Sunderland, we believe that healthcare partners can test and tourism programmes as well as universities have a role to play in a collaborate on new technologies operating as the University’s South fair and democratic society, and we and treatments in real world East Asia Hub for recruitment and Our Ambitions measure success not just by our awards settings, raising the quality of care partnership development in the and league table results but by the and improving patient safety. region. The University has almost contribution we make to society. 6,000 active alumni in Hong Kong Hope Street Xchange is our flagship and has over 20 years of operational According to the Times Good University centre for enterprise and innovation experience in this region. Guide 2019 we recruit the highest and offers inspirational space for proportion of students from the most business-to-business engagement Our recruitment deprived parts of Britain. We are proud and fledgling enterprises. The first and global reach of our widening participation record FabLab in the region is also based UK recruitment for 2018/19 will be which is a result of our long-standing here and provides open access to Life Changers Knowledge Creators Tomorrow Makers in line with the previous year, which commitment to raise aspirations the latest digital fabrication and A world leading contemporary An institution that is acknowledged A University whose graduates are is pleasing in a highly competitive and promote social inclusion. rapid prototyping technologies. University that is distinctive in globally as an exemplar in the creation adaptive creative thinkers with the home market. International and supporting learning at all stages in life. of knowledge, skills and learning that personal attributes to become the We received a Silver TEF rating in Our award-winning Sir Tom Cowie EU student numbers are likely to is work relevant in the 21st Century. leaders and tomorrow makers of our societies and economies. 2017. The assessors applauded Campus is adjacent to St Peter’s Church exceed target, and in London and our “institutional culture that - a seat of learning since 674AD - Hong Kong our student numbers facilitates excellent teaching through and is now host to our extensive continue to grow year-on-year. a comprehensive professional facilities in media, film production, We are acknowledged as one of the development programme and funding engineering, computing, business and UK’s top providers of transnational commitments to support pedagogical law. Over the summer we have made education with over 6,000 students research”. We were also recognised for significant investment in our new studying for University of Sunderland our students’ exposure to professional student Gateway, our one-stop-shop for academic awards with 21 quality- practice, which enhances their personal student support and advice. In addition assured partners across the world development and overall experience. we have transformed our catering offer including in Malaysia, Singapore, with modern stylish food outlets at Boundary Breakers Learning Engagers Future Shapers Hong Kong, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, both St Peter’s and at City Campus. We An institution that fosters a sense of A University where students want to A leading anchor institution in the Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Trinidad, have invested in the refurbishment of pride amongst its staff, students and study due to the quality of teaching, North East making significant social, Uzbekistan, and Tashkent. alumni as it makes a real difference the relevance and accessibility of our economic and cultural contributions National Glass Centre, a notable visitor to the world in which we live through programmes and the reputation we to our locality, displaying innovation, attraction and home to the University’s its research, innovation and practice. enjoy for partnering with students entrepreneurship, financial stability, and personalising their experience. efficiency and sustainability in glass and ceramics programmes, our approach and delivery.

04 See the full document at Strategic Plan 2016 – 2021 www.sunderland.ac.uk 051105 1 Welcome to Sunderland Our city by the sea

Sunderland is a welcoming coastal city, With our Sunderland Culture partners offering an excellent quality of life… we recently launched an ambitious SUNDERLAND seven-year, £60m project to build on Sitting on the beautiful North East the momentum and positive support coast at the mouth of the River generated through over the last few years Wear, our warm and friendly people around culture, incorporating themes are proud of their rich history - that of Light, Friendship and Inventiveness. stretches back to Anglo-Saxon times LONDON – and positive about the future. This year has already seen the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art open in its Sunderland’s wide sandy beaches with new home at National Glass Centre – and their big-sky views attract walkers, in summer the city welcomed the Tall surfers, runners and cyclists to enjoy Ships Races to the Wear, with the Sir Tom Getting here the fresh sea air; while the Marina Cowie Campus at St Peter’s being one of Complex provides top-class facilities Set on the North East coast, right where the key sites to welcome the majestic and friendly service all year round. the River Wear joins the North Sea, ships and many thousands of visitors. Sunderland is connected to the rest of Our city boasts acres of green space Our busy retail centre offers plenty the UK by excellent road and rail links; and is close to wide, open countryside of places to eat and drink, including and accessible by major airlines through and urban attractions, with Newcastle, cosy pubs serving hearty food and nearby Newcastle International and Durham and the North Yorkshire cask ale, alongside independent Durham Tees Valley airports. Once you Moors on the doorstep. Over £1billion restaurants, coffee shops and bars. arrive, getting around is easy with plenty is being invested in exciting projects of local buses and the Tyne and Wear across the city, from the spectacular Sunderland is an affordable place to live light rail, as well as a good network of new Northern Spire bridge across the and offers a great quality of life. It’s a cycle routes and public footpaths. Wear and development of a vibrant friendly city with ambition and a bright cultural quarter near City Campus, to future – join us and be part of our story. attractive new spaces for enjoying 2 3 leisure time at the seafront. With more 1 Seaburn Beach investment and ambitious plans in 2 Sunderland Museum and the pipeline, Sunderland is attracting Winter Gardens (and enjoying) plenty of attention! 3 New Northern Spire Bridge The former Chair of Arts Council England 4 Penshaw Monument described the University of Sunderland 5 Tall Ships Races Sunderland as the “poster child” for driving economic regeneration through creativity and nowadays opportunities to enjoy culture are plentiful in Sunderland too.

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16 www.sunderland.ac.uk 1317 Our University community

“I love my job and I know “I had a brilliant time at Sunderland and the support none of it would have been from the University was really helpful.” possible without Sunderland.”

Katy McLean Tolu Oyebanji BSc Sports Studies BSc Biomedical Science World Cup winning England Women’s Rugby Biomedical Scientist at Captain, Olympian and former primary school Scarborough General teacher Hospital

“Education lights a spark that you will carry “This brilliant University is problem solving, with you for the rest of your life, and will help vision driven, analytical, and embracing.” to light your way.” “I’m really proud of what I Alastair Stewart OBE have achieved so far, and Steve Cram OBE ITN News Reporter I can’t thank Sunderland University Chancellor enough for getting me off to a great start.”

“The principal reason I jumped at the chance to “I’ve been lucky enough to do a job that I love Matt Riggs become Chancellor was because the University and to feel like I’ve made an impact. We’ve made BA Sports Journalism clearly shared the same fundamental belief in incredible progress in diseases like Alzheimer’s and extending opportunities by widening access to Parkinson’s, and I am now more sure than ever that Content Producer university education. we will find a cure. I am increasingly thankful to the West Ham FC University of Sunderland for helping me start my “What the University of Sunderland has achieved in offering thousands upon thousands of people - who journey. I love this place.” almost certainly would not have had (or in many Dr Andrew Singleton cases sought) the chance - a truly life-changing Chief of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics at the experience - cannot adequately be put into words. “I’m not afraid to say I’ve National Institute on Aging, in Maryland, USA I’m enormously proud to have played a small part in worked hard to get where I this achievement.” am. To know that the University David Puttnam - Lord Puttnam of Queensgate of Sunderland recognises Chancellor, University of Sunderland 1997-2007 that hard work shows how supportive they are.” Charlotte Knill BSc (Hons) Computer Forensics Digital Forensics Investigator and Alumni Achiever of the Year 2017

“Sunderland have excellent links with industry and “The best four years of their mix of purely academic lecturers, who can my life, Sunderland really explain difficult and complex tasks and the prepared me for the real importance of research, coupled with lecturers and world.” “The University has clear plans to further enrich “I have not experienced anything quite as staff more focused on real-world application, makes Amy Orange you feel ready and comfortable when you get into its impactful research and its innovative teaching exciting as the University of Sunderland’s health LLB Law industry.” and learning practice. Having seen it operate in care ambitions for the North East region and Family Paralegal these areas at close quarters for over a decade beyond. Sunderland is breaking new ground.” Blaine Huntington I am in no doubt whatsoever it will achieve its BEng (Hons) Electronic and Electrical Engineering ambitions.” Professor Lisa Bayliss Pratt Hitachi Rail Europe Chief Nurse, Health Education England Baroness Morris of Yardley Former Pro Vice-Chancellor

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“I love my job and I know “I had a brilliant time at Sunderland and the support none of it would have been from the University was really helpful.” possible without Sunderland.”

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University of Sunderland City Campus Chester Road Sunderland SR1 3SD

T: 0191 515 2000 E: [email protected] www.sunderland.ac.uk