Job Details
Apply now Job no: 584052 Work type: Full-time, Level B - Teaching and Research Location: Geelong - Waurn Ponds Categories: Teaching Innovation Support, Educational Design
* Based at our Geelong, Waurn Ponds Campus
* Full-time and fixed term for 12 months within NIKERI
* Level B $117,684 - $139,191 + 17% Superannuation (pro rata, part time)
* Applications are currently being accepted exclusively from our current and former sessional academic cohorts at Deakin.
* Applicants must have been engaged as a sessional academic at Deakin within two years of the advertising date to be eligible to apply.
About Deakin and NIKERI Institute
Deakin campuses sit on Wadawurrung, Wurundjeri, and Eastern Maar Countries, and the University acknowledges, values and deeply respects its connection with the Traditional Custodians and Elders past and present of these lands and waterways. Deakin is the most popular university destination in Victoria for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and has a rich history of supporting their ambitions, including through the NIKERI Institute (formerly the Institute of Koorie Education). The NIKERI Institute facilitates Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students' participation in higher education through culturally appropriate, community-based programs.
About the role
The Lecturer, Social Work will lead unit teaching teams in UG and/or PG programs to deliver unit learning outcomes and continuously improve the student learning experience and outcomes. The position will initiate, design and conduct productive, high-quality research, scholarship and creative activities generating high impact outputs in their discipline area. The Lecturer may lead and research activities and is expected to engage collaboratively to develop novel research outcomes.
Responsibilities
* Lead unit teaching teams and work collaboratively with other unit teaching teams in the course to deliver effective unit curricula and learning resources
* Assist in applying industry, clinical and/or research practice into student learning experiences, success, engagement and resources
* Design collaborative learning opportunities at the unit level. Support diverse learners by designing accessible and inclusive unit material and practices
* Support, and may lead, applications for research and creative activities, including applications for external competitive funding, external funding for commercialization and translation activities and other funding demonstrating sustained efforts
* Initiate, design, conduct and may lead intra and inter-disciplinary research collaborations, to enable major breakthroughs in knowledge and understanding and solutions to complex problems
Qualifications
* Be of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent; and who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
* PhD in a relevant discipline and/or other relevant qualifications and experience
* Excellent record of scholarly learning and teaching in UG and/or PG programs, including innovative curriculum design
* Emerging reputation in research and scholarship through publications and/or exhibitions and/or success in obtaining external research funding
* Ability to contribute to communities through research
* Capacity to contribute to leadership of research and administration
Equal Opportunity Statement
In line with special measure provisions in Section 12 of the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act (2010), the University will only be accepting applications for this position from people who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
Application Eligibility
To be eligible to apply, you must currently be a sessional academic at Deakin or have been previously engaged as a sessional academic at Deakin within the last two years of the advertising date.
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