$94,734 to $103,627
- Fixed-term, full-time
- Kelvin Grove (hybrid option available)
**Who are we looking for?**
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is seeking a Language and Learning Educator to join Learning and Teaching Unit, Education Portfolio, Academic Division.
The primary purpose of the Language and Learning Educator is to provide timely and targeted services and initiatives to support the academic language and learning needs of all students. In addition to work related to academic language and learning development, the Language and Learning Educator will work in partnership with STEM Educators, Career Educators and Language and Learning Educators from across the faculties to contribute to the work of strategic priorities for the Student Success Group. These areas include: - Student partnership, and peer programs - Industry engagement, professional identity development, and WIL support - Curriculum planning and resource development - Student retention and learning analytics - University wide initiatives such as Orientation.
We're offering this role as a hybrid position as part of QUT's commitment to embracing the opportunities created by a more virtual and connected world.
**Real world impact**
QUT is a major Australian university with a global outlook and a 'real world' focus. We are an ambitious and collaborative institution that seeks to equip our students and graduates with the skills they will need in an increasingly disrupted and challenged world.
**About the Education Portfolio**
At QUT we are transforming learning and teaching practices in line with our Real World Learning Vision, so that our graduates are highly skilled, enterprising, and well suited to 21st century employment and careers. We are committed to increasing the flexibility of our course offerings to enable our students and graduates to thrive in changing and complex working environments throughout their lives. Our focus is on student success, partnering with students to enhance the end-to-end learner journey, and designing and delivering high quality, flexible educational experiences that enable this.
The Education Portfolio encompasses:
- Curriculum Quality and Standards
- Learning and Teaching Unit
- Library
- QUT College
- QUT Entrepreneurship
- Student Ombudsman
QUT's distinctive positioning as "the university for the real world" means a commitment to and investment in real-world work integrated learning, authentic assessment, a curriculum design studio approach for innovative curriculum and an increased focus on the optimisation of digital technologies to enhance on campus and online learning.
**About the Learning and Teaching Unit**
LTU is committed to a culture of collaboration, working in partnership with students, industry representatives, and staff across QUT to meet the evolving needs of our learners.
Guided by our Real World Learning Vision, LTU leads and coordinates learning and teaching across QUT, leveraging existing initiatives and enabling new ways of thinking and working that are learner-centric and future-focused.
The Student Success Group (SSG) works in partnership with faculties, HiQ, Equity and Student Counselling, and other learning and personal support providers across the University (International Student Services, Student Engagement, Widening Participation, Student Business Services). The SSG aims to provide access to the highest quality of support for learning and careers and engagement services and strategies to empower students with the tools, connections, and mindsets to achieve their full academic potential and to design their real world futures.
**What you need to succeed**
To thrive in this role, you will be proactive and dependable, with a desire to make a positive impact on the experience of our students.
You will demonstrate:
- Education, training and/or experience equivalent to completion of a degree in a discipline with a strong relevance to academic language and learning practice and pedagogy, with at least four years subsequent relevant work experience.
- Proven experience in promoting and teaching others to develop the strategies needed to engage effectively in academic language and learning discourses and literacies in physical (face-to-face) and virtual environments.
- Demonstrated understanding of the issues which affect adult language and learning development, retention and success in higher education as well as a commitment to working from a social justice framework.
- Demonstrated expertise in one or more of the areas that promote student success, such as student partnership, peer programs and student leadership development, retention strategy development and information systems management, industry engagement and work integrated learning, curriculum design and planning.
- Demonstrated ability to work in partnership with a diverse range of student and staff stakeholders from culturally diverse backgrounds, at all levels of an organisation to desig