Business Lecturer Job Description
This role involves delivering quality Vocational Education and Training (VET) programs underpinned by Both-ways principles of practice. The successful candidate will be responsible for the development and delivery of innovative VET programs, ensuring alignment with industry practices and community values.
Key Responsibilities:
* Demonstrate awareness of basic VET educational theories and determine their applicability to the learning needs of individuals and groups.
* Use strategies and skills to ensure learner engagement and achievement of learning outcomes, create supportive learner relationships, and use a range of technologies effectively.
* Demonstrate understanding of the principles of assessment and contribute to the development of assessment tools or modify existing ones to suit learner needs and specified contexts.
* Employ a range of methods to ensure principles of assessment and rules of evidence are met in assessment processes and decisions, participate in validation processes, and liaise with enterprises and community to ensure teaching and assessment reflects current industry practices and community values.
* Maintain vocational competency relevant to own subject area, keep up to date with industry changes, and participate in relevant industry and community events/networks/consultation.
* Contextualize program content and adapt teaching practices to suit specified enterprise needs and community values and aspirations.
Selection Criteria:
1. Demonstrated ability to work effectively in culturally diverse teams within the social, political, and cultural environments of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, communities, and organizations.
2. Must possess relevant vocational qualifications in the specialist teaching area, at least to the level of program being delivered combined with 3 or more years industry/professional/vocational experience. Additionally, the successful candidate must have the minimum vocational teaching qualification Certificate IV in Training and Assessment TAE40110, TAE40116 or TAE40122 or higher or be willing to obtain the qualification within a negotiated timeframe.
3. Demonstrated knowledge of, and experience in Vocational Education and Training, including managing student progression that will enable VET programs in the relevant teaching areas to be researched, prepared, delivered, assessed, evaluated, and administered in a variety of contexts, including remote contexts and workplace delivery, with reference to the above domains of work requirements.
4. Highly effective interpersonal skills including proficient written and oral communication which can be adapted to meet the needs of people from all educational levels.
5. Demonstrated understanding of and ability to comply with VET management and administration policies, procedures, and business rules and an understanding of the Standards for RTO's 2015 and relevant legislation and ensure compliance in own work practices.
6. Demonstrated initiative and managing workload priorities.
7. Must be able to undertake travel throughout the Northern Territory by land, sea, and air (e.g., in light aircraft), possess a Northern Territory 'C' class drivers' licence with experience driving on unformed roads, and be prepared to stay in a range of accommodation and in various environmental settings available to Batchelor Institute staff.
8. Hold current First Aid.
9. Understanding of Work Health and Safety principles and practices, and ability to comply with Institute WHS Policies and Procedures.