Senior Lecturer in Hospitality and Tourism -Stratford

Salary: £50,522 - £61,749 per annum

London weighting: £4,000 per annum

Employment type: Permanent

Hours per week: 37

Reporting into: Head of Department

Department: Department of Hospitality and Tourism

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This role operates on a hybrid working arrangement that will require 3/4 days travel into our Stratford campus. This may fluctuate in line with business requirements. Our working model arrangements are a non-contractual benefit so please note that an Arden work location is added to our employment contracts.

Travel will be required into the following locations:

• Stratford campus

About Arden University:

We are an aspirational and multi-award-winning university, delivering rapid growth with ambitious plans to disrupt the HE sector through our passion for innovation and digital education. Our vision is to become the first-choice university for career-focused lifelong learners worldwide, ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access higher education.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines, forge worldwide partnerships, and expand our locations.

About our Department:

Our academic teams work to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of programmes in accordance with University strategy, policies and procedures and undertake research and scholarly activity.

We contribute to innovation and teaching excellence through scholarly debate and discussion, research and scholarly activity, knowledge transfer and the dissemination of knowledge and best practice.

About the Opportunity:

To lead, develop and monitor postgraduate and undergraduate programmes, ensuring high levels of student outcomes. This includes curriculum development and quality management and enhancement, alongside the full range of teaching duties.

You will undertake effective ongoing review and enhancement of the programme, ensuring high levels of student engagement and outcomes, and ensuring teaching is research-informed, up to date and enables students to develop high levels of subject knowledge and skills for graduate level employment.

The role includes designing and/or leading the development of teaching material, supporting new course proposals and the creation of new programmes and modules, while building internal and external networks and developing links with relevant professional bodies and academic groups.

You will also contribute to planning and managing academic resource, including workload allocation of academic staff and ensuring resources are appropriately deployed.

About You:

We are looking for someone who can be a positive role model to staff and students, challenge thinking, foster debate and develop the ability of students to engage in critical discourse. You will have the ability to develop initiative, creativity and judgement to apply appropriate approaches to teaching, learning and assessment, and respond to, and where possible resolve, problems and practical challenges that may affect the achievement of objectives and deadlines.

Essential requirements:

• Undertake the full range of teaching duties.

• Ensure high levels of student engagement and outcomes on the programme.

• Undertake effective ongoing review and enhancement of the programme.

• Demonstrate and promote high levels of digital literacy in teaching and use of resources.

• Ensure teaching is research-informed, up to date and enables students to develop high levels of subject knowledge and skills for graduate level employment.

• Design and/or lead the development of teaching material for undergraduate, postgraduate level programmes, short courses or CPD.

• Work in accordance with University policies and procedures to drive high quality assessment design and implementation.

• Manage annual workload allocation of academic staff contributing to the programme.

• Line manage module leaders and lecturers, recruiting, monitoring and supporting the development of team members.

• Manage staff issues in line with policies and procedures.

• Identify and address development needs of academics to ensure effective continuing professional development.

• Act as a Named PAC: Manage a defined caseload of students, acting as their primary academic point of contact.

Desirable requirements:

• Develop links with relevant professional bodies and academic groups.

• Make presentations at conferences/internal or external events.

• Support the University in the development of its research and scholarly activity and culture.

• Assist with consultancy projects relevant to subject discipline.

• Cross school dissemination of knowledge and best practice.

• Support the University in furthering its national and international reputation in innovation and teaching excellence through contributions to scholarly debate and discussion.

• Contribute to the development of commercial activity and consultancy projects relevant to subject discipline.

• Work with the Senior Academic Team to contribute to key change projects aligned with the University’s Strategy and the Learning, Teaching and Assessment Plan.

Why Arden:

At Arden, you will become a part of a passionate and dedicated team who are committed to removing unnecessary barriers to learning and making education more accessible. Our people work hard to ensure our students journeys are the best they can possibly be, as such we want to reward our people with fantastic benefits. Employees benefit from:

• 30 days holiday + bank holidays on-top, and even a Christmas closure!

• A generous Aviva pension plan, company contributions starting from 7%

• BUPA Cash Plan

• Private Medical Insurance coverage (applies to certain job roles)

• Access to Perkbox benefits

• Study any Arden course for free, with a discount for all family and friends

• Plus, other excellent benefits

• Our ‘Golden Ticket’ which allows you to gift anyone in your life a free Arden education

Our Values:

Stand out, Progressive, Accessible, Resourceful, Kindness, reflect who we are as an institution, a team and as individuals. If they also reflect you and you are excited by the chance to be the driving, creative force within a growing business, we want to hear from you.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines and locations.

Closing Date: Sunday 11th October 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the specified closing date should we receive sufficient applications or in order to respond to business needs. In order to avoid missing an opportunity to apply please submit your application as early as possible.

If you are a current Arden student or have an upcoming course with us, you are not eligible to apply for Student Experience roles due to a conflict of interest related to system access.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion:

Arden University is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. This means that if you have a disability, as defined by the Disability Equality Act 2010, you may be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria for the role.

If you wish to be considered under this scheme, you can indicate via the application form below. By doing so, you are also consenting for this information to be shared with the hiring team. For more details on what qualifies as a disability under the Disability Equality Act 2010, please refer to the guidance here.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Therefore, we make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon people's age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances, and actively welcome applications from all groups.

Sponsorship statement:

Please be aware that some roles may not meet the points requirement for a sponsored Skilled Worker visa, or fulfil the criteria we have for providing sponsorship.  However we welcome applications from candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK but may be eligible for a visa through an alternative route.