Lecturer - Cohort Lead

Salary: Lecturer: £51,000 Plus £5,000 Cohort Lead allowance on top of your Lecturer salary.

Are you an experienced academic professional ready to make a meaningful impact on student success, academic quality, and teaching excellence? We’re looking for committed leaders to play a vital role in supporting our Faculty leadership and driving outstanding outcomes across our programmes. At GBS, Cohort Leads sit within our programme structure, supporting the Associate Dean to lead our large programmes.

This is a fantastic development opportunity - ideal for Lecturers aspiring to step into academic management, lead people, influence quality, and shape the student experience.

Role Purpose

As a Cohort Lead, you’ll play a key role in the day‑to‑day management of teaching provision and academic staff within your Faculty. You will oversee the academic success, engagement and continuation of your assigned student cohort(s), ensuring they receive high‑quality teaching, strong pastoral support and a connected learning experience. Working closely with Module Leaders, Lecturers, Student Success Tutors and Faculty Managers, you will drive key performance outcomes such as attendance, assessment submission and student satisfaction. Your leadership will directly influence progression, retention, and overall student experience.

Disciplines: Business, Entrepreneurship, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Computing, Construction Management, Psychology, Counselling, Project Management, Business & Tourism, Accounting & Finance and Study Skills. (please add a cover letter with your CV detailing your subject discipline).

What You’ll Do

As a Cohort Lead, you will:

Oversee highquality teaching and academic delivery

Lead and develop Module Leaders and Lecturers

Monitor attendance, continuation and assessment performance

Drive interventions that enhance student experience and outcomes

Collaborate with Student Success Tutors, Wellbeing and Faculty teams to support your cohort

Manage quality processes and contribute to continuous improvement

directly shape student progression, satisfaction and success.

About You

You’re a committed academic with:

A relevant master’s degree qualification (PhD highly desirable)

Strong teaching experience (Higher Education Lecturer)

Previous leadership and line management experience of academic staff

A passion for supporting people and driving performance

Excellent communication and organisational skills

Experience of, and a passion for working in widening access environments

A student‑centred, data‑informed approach

Why You’ll Love Working With Us:

Time Off That Fits Your Lifestyle

33 days annual leave (incl. bank holidays)

+1 extra day per year of service (up to 5)

Option to buy/sell up to 5 days

Grow Your Career

Tuition reimbursement for development courses

Full support to gain Fellowship with Advance HE

Flexible Benefits

Cycle to Work

Workplace Nursery

Tech scheme

Health & Dental cover

Women’s Health support (Hertility)
…and more

Wellbeing & Rewards

Perks@Work discounts

EAP & discounted gym membership

Annual performance bonus

Salary review

£500 employee referral bonus

Ready to Make an Impact?

If you’re driven, collaborative and ready to lead with purpose, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today and help shape the future of our students