Do I have any realistic chance of becoming a lecturer?

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I currently work in one of the professions and I am qualified to masters level.

I'm a supervisor in my current post. 'Progressing' would mean either being fast tracked into senior management which I absolutely don't want, but equally I am exhausted/ frustrated by practice and don't want to go back to casework. As such I am at a career cross roads.

One of the things that really energises me and, I'm told, plays to my strengths is training and inspiring others (I appreciate training is different to tutoring/ lecturing).

In my last job I was fortunate enough to deliver training across all kinds of settings including Local Authorities, legal firms, NGOs, the Civil Service and to students (both under grad and post grad) at a number of universities across the country. The feedback I got was always outstanding.

There was one university I was particularly impressed with (loved their students, staff and general ethos of the place). A job has now come up there for a full time lecturer which I am interested in, but I feel that I know nothing about Higher Education as a career path.

I don't have any qualifications in Education (save for a 3 day course developing my skills as a trainer), whilst this is only listed as a 'desirable' on the job spec realistically are they likely to consider someone with no proper experience of teaching save for what I've outlined above?

Do you think there is anything I can do to offset this lack of experience/ qualifications?

Any advice would be welcome.

I know someone who went from being an Associate in a Solicitor's firm to a law lecturer at Uni delivering the LPC without any kind of background in education.

You'll never know unless you try

Academic here.

Depends on the subject, but most lecturer posts will have very clear criteria for selection and apply these zealously, given that you can get 50 plus highly qualified applicants for any given post. Typically someone will need a PhD as well as teaching experience. However some (not research intensive) universities will be interested in your training experience if it's subject specific. Check the criteria and if there aren't any, I suggest an email to check first before applying.

N.b. perhaps you should ask for this to be moved to Higher Education.

Definitely apply.
However, be realistic about who you will be up against, don't be despondent if you don't get it , but do ask for feedback if you don't get it. And then act on the feedback. Good luck!!

Can you do a higher education post grad course whilst working? Otherwise it's still worth applying as they may fund you?