This role is designed to deliver teaching at BA and MA. The Department teaches a range of languages – including Mandarin, Arabic, French, German, Italian and Spanish – at levels from the informal conversational to the post-graduate.  We offer a BA English-Chinese Translation and Interpreting, which teaches students from partner universities in China (on 2+2 BA degrees and 1+1 BA / MA schemes), and have a large cohort of Mandarin students on our twin MA programmes in Translation and Interpreting and Professional Translation.

The successful candidate will lead teaching on the BA English-Chinese Translation and Interpreting, including  Translation Workshop modules and the supervision of translation projects, the Mandarin elements of the above-named MA programmes, including modules in both simultaneous and consecutive interpreting.

The College is committed to innovative forms of teaching and to enhancing the employability of its students and thus welcomes applications from individuals with ideas and experience in these fields.

The University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity in all of its practices and activities. We aim to establish an inclusive environment and particularly welcome applications from diverse backgrounds.

This position may offer the opportunity to teach across College of Arts and Humanities (COAH) programmes, including those in the Department of Adult Continuing Education, and to teach on cross-COAH modules, including the Foundation Year. This position may involve occasional working in the evenings or weekends in order to deliver off-campus or out-of-hours teaching and recruitment activities.

Deadline for applications: 28 October 2020

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