Academic course writer (joondalup)

ACADEMIC COURSE WRITER

Salary: $122,641-$138,131 (HEW 8)

Location: Joondalup Campus, Full‐time Fixed‐Term (6months)

About the Opportunity

Collaborate with academic staff to translate curriculum concepts into proposals for new and revised higher education degree programmes and masterclasses. This includes leading the articulation of program or course vision; development of learning outcomes, graduate domains, and course structure; ensuring alignment with ECU's educational frameworks, strategic priorities, and pedagogical standards; and performing benchmarking of similar programmes.

Liaise with ECU centres to perform market analysis for new programmes. Coordinate proposal development timelines and documentation, managing drafts, iterations, and approvals to ensure submissions are delivered to a high standard and within required timeframes.

Develop and document feasible delivery and operational models for masterclass offerings, including resourcing, scheduling, and student experience considerations. Participate in all ECU, team, and individual planning activities and comply with ECU policies, WHS, and EO requirements, ensuring safety and well‐being.

Qualifications and Experience

• Formal qualifications: PhD in a science, computing, security, or education discipline. Desirable: training in project management.
• Experience: At least 3 years in the tertiary education sector, including STEM‐related curriculum design and development. Tertiary teaching and experience in programmatic curricula/assessment approaches desired.
• Planning and organising: Ability to set objectives, plan, manage time and resources, monitor progress, evaluate results and take corrective action using ECU's Excellence Framework.
• Accountability: Holds self and others to account, transparent and flexible, takes responsibility and ownership to resolve problems.
• Presenting and communicating information: Ability to organise and present information concisely and understandably for diverse audiences, selecting appropriate formats and vehicles.
• Working with people: Shows respect, tolerance, empathy, listens, supports and shares expertise.

Benefits

At ECU we are committed to fostering a positive employment experience and believe this is fundamental to the success and satisfaction of our employees. Growth and development matter because we recognise people are at the centre of everything we do. Our thriving work culture is guided by the ECU values and complemented by a range of employee benefits, including flexible working arrangements, generous leave entitlements, our commitment to wellbeing, exclusive corporate discounts, and industry‐leading superannuation.