UQ Skills Educator

• UQ Skills
• Fulfil the role of a Trainer and Assessor under the Vocational Education and Training framework.
• Full-Time, permanent opportunity
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About UQ's Gatton Campus

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:

• Free parking and intercampus bus
• On campus childcare, medical clinic, and post office
• 26 weeks paid parental leave or 14 weeks paid primary caregiver leave
• 17% superannuation contributions
• 17.5% annual leave loading
• 25% discount on eligible UQ Vets services
• Access to our $4.1 million UQ Sports facility
• Volunteer in our community garden

About This Opportunity

UQ Skills Educator operates as an industry leading Skills Educator within individuals key area(s) of expertise, fulfilling the role of a Trainer and Assessor under the Vocational Education and Training framework. This position is responsible for facilitating teaching, assessment and effective delivery of these Programs and ensures adherence to and implementation of regulatory compliance obligations in Vocational Education.

Key responsibilities include:

• With the support of the Education Manager, support 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 assigned delivery of training for assigned programs.
• Contribute to assessment validation as per the schedule provided by the Education Manager.
• With the support of the Education Manager, contribute to Trainer and Assessor activities in teaching and assessment pertaining to assigned programs.
• Prepare and monitor individual learning support plans with guidance from the Education 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 annually as agreed with line manager.
• Track and maintain student results and records, attendance rates and progress in conjunction with the Program Support Assistant and other relevant internal stakeholders.
• 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.

UQ Skills is committed to recruiting talent for this role. As such, the total salary package above will be negotiated based on individual merit.

The following flexible employment options may be available for this role: Part time/job share; some working from home; variable start or finish times; compressed hours; purchased leave; flex-time.

About You

Essential

• Industry qualification(s) within your respective area of expertise at least to level higher than the qualification you train and assess in (or a combination of extensive industry relevant experience and equal qualification to that involved in) with recent and relevant industry and vocational educational training experience.
• A CIV in Training and Assessment TAE40116 or TAE40110 with updates including TAELLN411 and TAEASS502 is required or higher qualifications in Adult and Vocational Education.

Desirable

• 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.
• Highly developed skills in Training and Assessment and proven experience teaching Agriculture/Rural programs under the AHC training package.
• 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.

Questions?

To discuss this role please contact Eimear Vallely - Associate Director, Education and Training at **************@uq.edu.au.

For application queries, please contact ***********@uq.edu.au stating the job reference number in the subject line.

Want to Apply?

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

• Cover letter addressing the 'About You' section
• Resume

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 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 February 25th 2024 at 11.00pm AEST (Job Reference Number - R-35007). Please note that interviews have been tentatively scheduled for March 11th 2024.