Lecturer - Countryside Management

EKC Group are looking for a Lecturer of Countryside Management to work in the Animal and Land-Based department at EKC Canterbury College and Spring Lane. As a Lecturer of Countryside Management, you will teach, train, and assess students at our Spring Lane and New Dover Road campuses, ensuring a high-quality learning experience.

Your role will also include providing support to learners to enable them to achieve their maximum potential and to lead as appropriate on designated study programmes and/or courses, with a key responsibility for ensuring the design, delivery, and evaluation of programme.

We pride ourselves in the support we can give those who are new to teaching, with ongoing training and coaching through our Teacher Academy. So, if you do not have any teaching experience or teacher qualifications but have a passion for sharing your knowledge and would like to be considered for this teaching role please apply.

What are the benefits? 

• Genuinely rewarding role. 
• Competitive holiday entitlement
• Days off for moving home and child’s first school day. 
• Store, retail, and gym discounts. 
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Opportunity to progress, train and develop - we have a fantastic teaching programme and CPD opportunities across the group. 
• Generous teacher pension scheme. 
• Laptop provided to every staff member. 

The ideal candidate will be highly organised and be able to plan and teach engaging and innovative lessons. They will have knowledge and experience with both countryside management theory and  practical countryside estate skills tasks. Ideal candidates will hold a minimum of a Level 4 or higher qualification in Countryside Management or a similar related subject (candidates who do not hold the qualification should have experience and knowledge of countryside management topics and estates activities). Candidates will demonstrate their willingness to learn new skills to support learners on the Countryside programmes.  

Ideally you will have experience of teaching or have delivered training in the workplace although this isn't essential as training will be offered to the successful applicant. You must have a positive outlook, be empathetic towards learners and have strong class management skills.  

The successful candidate will be able to teach a range of designated study programs and/ or courses from Level 1 up to Level 3 and will be able to motivate learners to achieve and succeed on their programmes of study.

You could qualify for the ‘Taking Teaching Further’ scheme. This could help you with paid study time and additional support in your new role, so you can complete your teaching qualification alongside your work. 

Please contact the Resourcing Team at jobs@ekcgroup.ac.uk if you have any queries about this position.

Please note that there are two salary scale points for our Lecturer positions. All candidates will start at the introductory salary scale point unless certain criteria are met. Employees can move up the salary scale once one full academic year of teaching for our group is complete, subject to approval. Therefore, internal applicants may qualify for the higher salary scale, although should seek clarification.