Lecturer in Public Health (Two Posts Available)

Overall Purpose of the Job:

The role supports undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in public health across the on‑campus BSc Public Health and both on‑campus and online MPH programmes. The postholder will contribute to pedagogical development, deliver teaching in various formats, and undertake scholarly activity that enhances teaching quality and aligns with divisional research priorities.

Key Responsibilities, Accountabilities or Duties:

Scholarly Activity

• Produce high quality teaching in public health
• Contribute to pedagogical innovation in the public health discipline
• Lead on co-production of reports, protocols and presentation for teaching planning and delivery

Teaching and curriculum development

• Lead and develop academic content and course materials, ensure updates to course unit outlines, and deliver teaching (face‑to‑face and online) in lectures, seminars, tutorials and practical’s as required
• Create, mark and provide feedback for assessments using recognised pedagogical practice and in line with University of Manchester academic practice
• Supervise dissertations and student projects.
• Provide pastoral and academic advising support to students.

Management

• Undertake leadership of course units and other student facing roles
• Manage teaching assistants where appropriate
• Work collaboratively with programme directors, education leads and other lecturers

Training

• Identify personal and team training needs, participate in relevant training events, and support continuous improvement in teaching delivery.

Person Specification

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• A Masters degree and/or PhD (or equivalent), and substantial experience in academic public health teaching
• Strong teaching skills using online, face‑to‑face and blended approaches.
• Practical experience in public health across settings such as community, institutional and education

• Ability to design innovative teaching and learning solutions at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level

• Excellent communication, organisation, and time‑management skills, with ability to work independently and within teams.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development

Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Experience in global or planetary health, commercial determinants of health, or health protection.
• Interest in promoting the discipline publicly.

What you will get in return:

• Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
• Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
• Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
• Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Please be aware that due to the number of applications we unfortunately may not able to provide individual feedback on your application.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to recruitmentservices.people@manchester.ac.uk

Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Anne Clayson

Email: anne.clayson@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: recruitmentservices.people@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support:

0161 850 2004 https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.