Lecturer – IT

The School of Commercial, Creative and Professional Studies at Merton College are looking to appoint a Lecturer in IT to deliver outstanding quality teaching, learning, assessment and tutorial support to students, to maximise achievement and continuous improvement.

You’ll play a key role in supporting the development of the curriculum, with employer engagement, and learner skill development central. Acting as a Course Leader and Pastoral Tutor, you’ll create and implement innovative teaching, learning and assessment with effective learning support material, methods and applications.

As our Lecturer, we’d like you to hold a degree or relevant professional qualification in IT, hold a teaching qualification with recent IT teaching experience in an FE College or school and have experience of teaching on IT related courses. Able to use programming languages, data modelling, cyber security and website development, you’ll have strong working knowledge of current IT BTEC Framework for teaching, learning, assessment, and quality assurance (IV). You will also have working knowledge of the T-Level curriculum and the delivery of Apprenticeships in IT.

You’ll have a successful record of tutoring and supporting learners and of setting and implementing target setting, monitoring and reviewing progress. You’ll have strong evidence of good-to-outstanding teaching, learning, assessment and tracking and effective employer engagement in curriculum design and delivery. With advanced level of computer literacy and general office software management skills, you’ll have effective presentation, delivery and time management skills for a variety of audiences with good verbal and written communication in both group and interpersonal situations, at all levels.

The successful candidate will be eligible for any increase in salary as a consequence of the annual cost of living review that will be implemented in the new academic year.

Closing date for the return of completed applications is 1st May 2025. 

The benefits package includes generous annual leave of 40 days plus up to 8 additional days over Christmas/New Year as well as an additional 5 days Wellbeing leave to enhance employees’ physical and mental health. There is an excellent pension scheme that receives a significant financial contribution from the employer (Teachers Pensions or Local Government Pension Scheme), subsidised sports facilities and professional development and training plus a salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme.

South Thames Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.

As outlined in the Public Sector Equality Duty of the Equality Act 2010, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

As part of our due diligence checks on prospective employees, successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references, an online search and proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

The South Thames Colleges Group is made up of Carshalton College, Kingston College, Merton College and South Thames College, which merged on 1 August 2017. South Thames Colleges Group is one of London’s largest providers of post-16 education and training and is an ongoing and significant contributor to its local communities. We aim to put students’ success at the heart of everything we do.

We are looking for hard-working and collaborative people who can join our team and help challenge our students to progress and achieve.