Training Coordinator UQ Skills

• UQ Skills

• Be a member of the Education & Training Management team

• Full-time, continuing position

• Plan for your future with a generous 17% superannuation allowance

• Join our Gatton Campus community – take a virtual tour!

Established over 125 years ago, UQ’s Gatton Campus has a long history – from starting out as a dedicated agricultural institution, to being a field hospital during WWII, and to joining the UQ community in 1990.

Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world. By supporting the academic endeavour across teaching, research, and the student life, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to activities that have a lasting impact on our community.

Join an organisation where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued, and a range of benefits and rewards are available, such as:

The Training Coordinator is a key position in the delivery of vocational training and education for UQ’s registered Training Organisation, UQ Skills. This position provides vocational teaching in the area of First Aid and Allied Health related programs and is also responsible for facilitating and coordinating teaching, assessment and effective delivery of these Programs. The Training Coordinator ensures adherence to and implementation of regulatory compliance obligations in Vocational Education within the Department of Animal Care and Veterinary Nursing and Vocational Education.

Key responsibilities will include: 

• With the support of the Training Manager, coordinate and maximise teaching and assessment performance, including student experience and compliance.
• Lead the maintenance of teaching and assessment resource quality and continuous improvements
• Coordinate and prepare resources required for delivery of training for assigned programs.
• Coordinate assessment validation as per the schedule provided by the Training Manager.
• With the support of the Training Manager provide full oversight on Trainer and Assessor activities in teaching and assessment pertaining to assigned programs.
• Prepare and monitor individual learning support plans with guidance from the Training Manager.
• Advise and support students on course related matters as a first point of contact and triage including grading assessments and providing feedback to students regarding progress.
• Prepare and/or follow training plans and/or lesson plans for each class.
• Maintain a minimum teaching load of 60% annually
• Track and maintain student results and records, attendance rates and progress in conjunction with the Program Support Officer, Student Progression and Record Officer and Training Manager.
• Assess and mark student work and assignments, providing feedback and managing reassessment as required.
• Ensure familiarity with courses, units of competency, training packages offered and respective training and lesson plans.

This is a full-time (100%), continuing position.

At HEW level 6, the full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $86,371.95 - $92,658.90, plus a generous super allowance of up to 17%. The total FTE package will be up to $101,055.18 - $108,410.91 annually.  As this role is covered by an Enterprise Agreement, you will also receive regular remuneration increases – at least once a year.

• Completion of a degree, with at least two year’s relevant work experience in a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) as a Trainer and Assessor or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.

• Completion of a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (TAE40116) or equivalent or a higher-level qualification in adult education.

• Demonstrated experience in teaching and assessment practices and ability to adapt work to meet objectives.

• Work effectively with only general direction from management to achieve objectives on teaching and assessment practices.

• Demonstrated experience in judgement and program solving to coordinate the teaching team and programs in a semi-autonomous manner.

• Demonstrated ability to develop educational programs.

• Highly developed skills in Training and Assessment and proven experience teaching in your field of expertise.

• Experience working as part of a team and leading and mentoring others in teaching and assessment.

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. 

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Ms Eimear Vallely at **************@uq.edu.au. For application queries, please contact ***********@uq.edu.au stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line. 
 

All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:

• Cover letter addressing the ‘About You’ section  

• Resume 

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 our 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 

Applications close Thursday 18th January 2024 at 11.00pm AEST (Job Reference Number - R-33663). Please note that interviews have been tentatively scheduled for January 25th 2024.