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As part of the UQ community, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world, and within an environment where interdisciplinary collaborations are encouraged.
At the core of our teaching remains our students, and their experience with us sets a foundation for success far beyond graduation. UQ has made a commitment to making education opportunities available for all Queenslanders, regardless of personal, financial, or geographical barriers.
As part of our commitment to excellence in research and professional practice in academic contexts, we are proud to provide our staff with access to world-class facilities and equipment, grant writing support, greater research funding opportunities, and other forms of staff support and development.
About This Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity for a Lecturer to join the Academy for Medical Education (AME), to contribute to the design and delivery of the MD Doctor of Medicine program, and its continuous enhancement. This role supports students in developing their skills in Critical Thinking, evidence-based practice, and research. At this level the incumbent will engage in course coordination, teaching, and support the activities of other staff. They are also expected to facilitate collaborative opportunities for students engage in developing skills in research across the wider footprint of the Medical School. The incumbent is additionally expected to contribute to scholarship of learning and teaching aligned with the focus areas of the Academy of Medical Education, and to citizenship.
Key responsibilities will include:
Teaching: Coordinate and contribute to the delivery of courses and learning opportunities in the MD Program, in consultation with the Theme Leads
Design and develop innovative teaching and learning activities that is engaging, relevant and contemporary.
Teach across different settings including online learning and alternative learning paradigms where appropriate.
Scholarship of Learning and Teaching (SoTL): Develop a knowledge of effective pedagogical practices.
Collaborate in the development and execution of projects that enhance ways to improve teaching and learning.
Undertake independent and/or team research aligned to the AME areas of scholarship of teaching and learning that are innovative, subject to peer review, and/or lead to quality research outputs.
Supervision and Research Development: Contribute to the supervision of research projects and/or Higher Degree by Research students (as appropriate).
Collaborate with colleagues to facilitate opportunities for the development of students’ skills in research.
Citizenship and Service: Consistently demonstrate behaviours that align to the UQ values.
Contribute to a respectful, inclusive, and culturally safe workplace and learning environment.
This is a teaching focused position. Further information can be found by viewing UQ’s Criteria for Academic Performance.
This is a part-time (50%), continuing position.
At Academic level B. The full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $106,079- $125,687, plus a generous super allowance of up to 17%. The total FTE package will be up to $124,113 - $147,054 annually.
As this role is covered by an Enterprise Agreement, you will also receive regular remuneration increases – at least once a year.
The greater benefits of joining the UQ community are broad: from being part of a Group of Eight university, to recognition of prior service with other Australian universities, up to 26 weeks of paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading, flexible working arrangements including hybrid on site/WFH options and flexible start/finish times, and genuine career progression opportunities via the academic promotions process.
About You
Completion of a PhD in the discipline area; or equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training
Demonstrated experience in teaching and designing activities that support the development of research skills and data management.
Demonstrated ability to conduct and effectively engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning and quality enhancement activities relevant to education.
A track record in the scholarship of teaching and learning as determined by grant income, supervision of research students and publication record.
Ability to establish effective relationships, work collaboratively with colleagues and to represent and promote the interests of the school to other academic units, government and professional bodies.
A growing record of meaningful internal service roles in conjunction with a strong contribution to external activities.
In addition, the following mandatory requirements apply:
Work Rights: You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment. .
Background Checks: All final applicants for this position may be asked to consent to a criminal record check. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically barred from applying for this position. Each application will be considered on its merits.
Questions?
For more information about this opportunity, please contact Professor Di Eley ******@uq.edu.au
For application queries or a full job description, please contact ***********@uq.edu.au stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line.
Want to Apply?
All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:
Resume
Cover letter
Responses to the ‘About You’ section
Other Information
At UQ we know that our greatest strengths come from our diverse mix of colleagues, this is reflected in our ongoing commitment to creating an environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion. We ensure that we are always attracting, retaining and promoting colleagues who are representative of the diversity in the broader community, whether that be gender identity, LGBTQIA+, cultural and/or linguistic, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, or people with a disability. Accessibility requirements and/or adjustments can be directed to ***********@uq.edu.au
If you are a current employee (including casual staff and HDR scholars) or hold an unpaid/affiliate appointment, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board.
Applications close Sunday 28th January at 11.00pm AEST (R-34379). Please note that interviews have been tentatively scheduled for 6th February.
