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Form of workJob no: 533817
Work type: Full-time
Location: Flexible, Geelong - Waurn Ponds, Melbourne - Burwood
Categories: Education
Flexible location (Geelong Waurn Ponds or Melbourne Burwood Campus)
Full-time (36.75 hours per week) and Continuing
Level A $74,024 - $99,512 + 17% Superannuation
Founded in 1974, Deakin is a public university in Victoria with 61,000 students across five campuses: Melbourne Burwood, Geelong Waurn Ponds, Geelong Waterfront, Warrnambool, and the online Cloud Campus. We are a progressive and open-minded university, with the highest student satisfaction in Victoria and consistently ranked in the top 1% of the world’s universities.
The School of Communication and Creative Arts (SCCA) is home to world-leading academics across many domains, with a strong ethic of critical and creative inquiry, balanced by a deep appreciation of the power of practice and professional application.
The Associate Lecturer is actively involved in teaching and makes a significant contribution to innovative teaching and carries out activities to maintain and develop their professional activities relevant to the profession or discipline. The role is involved in the academic and professional service and engagement, industry partnerships and professional activities.
Your key responsibilities will include:
Education and Employability
Maintain appropriate discipline knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Publishing/Editing/Professional Writing/Creative Writing
Develop effective learning materials and activities as part of design team or with guidance from Unit Chair
Demonstrate awareness of ongoing innovation in curriculum design
Deliver effective teaching practices within unit
Integrate industry, clinical and/or research practice to teaching
Work collaboratively as part of a teaching team
Constructively reviews and refines own teaching practice to help maintain teaching quality standards
Suggest approaches to innovate teaching practices to improve student success and engagement
Provide clear assessment criteria and timely feedback to learners to demonstrate learning outcomes
Assist in developing effective assessment tasks and rubrics at unit level
Constructively contribute to moderation processes
Assist in applying industry, clinical and/or research practice into student learning experiences and resources
Adapt learning material and practices to support diverse learners
Facilitate collaborative learning opportunities at the unit level
Demonstrate awareness of student support and services and guides students to them where appropriate
Conduct self-evaluation practices and maintains effective mentor relationships
Demonstrate understanding of and commitment to educational excellence
Complete professional development programs in Higher Education Learning and Teaching
Support and assist with teaching scholarship and pedagogical research activity
Research and Innovation
Conduct high-quality research, scholarship and creative activities generating high impact outputs, with mentorship
Engage collaboratively to participate in novel and high-quality research or creative activities
Communicate outputs, including as part of team
Ensure impact of academic activity on the field and the community
Support and may lead applications for funding for research and creative activities
Begin building body of work and reputation and recognition for quality, excellence and impact
Participate in intra- and inter-disciplinary research collaborations
Build awareness of industry partners and participates in opportunities for research partnerships
Support and may lead in applications for external competitive and other funding
Begin to build track record of timely delivery of outcomes for industry partners
Co-supervise honours to timely outcomes with productive high-quality outcomes
Develop working relationship with mentors and supervisors
Develop early career research plan with guidance from mentors and supervisors
Adopt culture of research excellence, innovation and impact
Build awareness of relevant industry partners and opportunities for HDRs/ECRs placements
University Citizenship and Engagement
Contribute to Deakin community and its effectiveness via local engagement and citizenship activities
Understand the objectives and outcomes to be delivered by the University’s strategic agenda
Contribute to community beyond Deakin via engagement activities
Support Deakin community engagement plan
Key selection criteria:
Degree in a relevant discipline and/or other relevant qualifications and experience
Emerging research and scholarship through publications, and/or exhibitions as appropriate to the discipline
Ability to contribute to communities through research
Capacity to contribute to teaching, research and administration
Excellent interpersonal skills and a proven ability to establish good working relationships with colleagues
Excellent record of scholarly learning and teaching in UG and/or PG programs, including innovative curriculum design
Emerging research and scholarship through publications, and/or exhibitions, as appropriate to the discipline
Ability to contribute to community engagement for research and teaching
Capacity to contribute to the delivery of academic programs in publishing, editing, and/or professional and creative writing
Applications for this position close on 28 March 2023
Successful applicants will need to comply with vaccination mandates imposed by the relevant state/territory government. Applicants who attend third-party sites to undertake University activities will also be required to comply with any other directions or requirements in place at the third-party location.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Infrequent travel will be required
Drivers Licence
Working with Children Check (refer to Recruitment Procedure)
Please submit your resume, a short cover letter and responses to the Key Selection Criteria.
For a confidential discussion regarding this position, please contact Paul Venzo (Head of Writing, Literature and Culture) at paul.venzo@deakin.edu.au
Are You Ready?
Deakin is a Victorian university with a global impact. We are an agile, dynamic and innovative university committed to making a positive impact through our excellence in education, research and innovation and the contributions we make to the wider community.
We understand that our reputation has been built on the dedication and expertise of our staff and we offer a dynamic and diverse working environment with opportunities to grow and develop careers. We believe that a progressive, thriving culture will ensure that people choose to come, and stay at Deakin and contribute to our ongoing success.
We value diversity and aim to build an inclusive environment that champions, embraces and respects differences. We support and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people of all abilities, cultures, sexual orientation, and genders.
We understand that our academic workforce is increasingly diverse, and we recognise academic careers may be placed on hold throughout many life circumstances. Achievement relative to opportunity places more emphasis on the quality, as opposed to the quantity of research outputs. In your application, we strongly encourage you to comment on your achievements relative to opportunity.
Advertised: 27 Feb 2023 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: 28 Mar 2023 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
