Boston Media House Recruitment 2023/2024

Module Management

• To support, guide, provide oversight, monitor and quality assure viz a vis the Educators’ facilitation of the learning and teaching of specifically allocated modules according to the syllabi congruent with the program.
• Responsible for the adherence to the published academic and operational calendars and timetables for each semester.
• Management of the Educators’ uploads of quality-assured teaching, learning, and assessment collateral to the learner management system.
• Oversight of the Educators’ responses to student queries either via the learner management system, via email, or telephonically.
• Timeous responses to student queries and appeals on the learner management and administrative systems and in your email inbox and/or telephonic messages.

Student & Academic Staff Support

• Be committed and available to support students, educators and staff consistently and timeously.  Ensure that relevant Boston policies and procedures are accurately and consistently implemented.

Teaching and Learning

• Ensure that the teaching, learning and assessment strategy for the module/s is aligned to the program’s intentions (i.e. purpose, rationale, exit level outcomes, etc) and to the Institution’s pedagogical approach, as well as policies on teaching, learning and assessment.

Learning Material Development

• You are responsible for the processes of timeous planning, briefing and variance monitoring of material development including quality assurance of the learning material produced for use in the learning engagement with students.

Administration

• Managing the process of the grading and moderation of all assessment events by the educators/graders/moderators on the modules you are responsible for (formative, summative, and all supplementary) as per the academic calendar.
• Regular meetings with the educators and program coordinators on the modules for which you are responsible. These meetings might take various forms depending on the academic and operational requirements at the time.
• Administration of grades after the completion of assessment events (formative, summative and supplementary – according to the academic calendar).
• Provide relevant information as required to the programme coordinator.

Quality Assurance and Moderation

• Co-ordination/management of the internal and external moderation processes as required including the appointment of external moderators and examiners as required.
• Facilitate and/or participate in internal developmental workshops toward the enhanced quality of our provision of learning, teaching, assessment and student support.
• Involvement in the syllabus and curriculum design, development and review process and the updating of existing syllabi and curricula.
• Provision of analyses of data for the purpose of module evaluations using appropriate tools.
• Collection of relevant data using appropriate tools for the purpose of module reviews and programme evaluations.
• Completion of module reviews at the conclusion of the module or as required, which are high level analyses of the module and its performance in the semester.
• Participation in the processes of programme evaluation and external reviews, cyclically or as required.
• Ongoing  monitoring  and  evaluation  of  each  module’s  performance,  including  the performance of the students registered for each module, as well as throughput data.
• Early identification of at-risk students and modules which are to be escalated to the Programme Co-ordinator and implementation of support interventions where required.

Additional Responsibilities

• Provide intellectual leadership and take responsibility for line management in order to be supportive of educators in the accomplishment of the main objectives of the modules and to advise all/any staff when required on related policies.
• Regular reporting to your direct and indirect line managers.
• Regular attendance and participation in various committee meetings as part of the general administration of the academic project.

Scholarly Activity

• Ongoing participation in and leading of scholarly activities including research, professional practice and continued professional development in your academic area of specialisation.

Community Engagement

• Ongoing participation in and leading of community engagement endeavours as per the Institution’s approach.