• Based in Horsham
• 2x Part-time (0.5FTE), Fixed term to 20 December 2025
• Level A $74,024 - $99,512 + 17% Superannuation (pro rata part time)

Founded in 1974, Deakin is a public university in Victoria with 61,000 students across five campuses: Melbourne Burwood, Geelong Waurn Ponds, Geelong Waterfront, Warrnambool, and the online Campus. We are a progressive and open-minded university, with the highest student satisfaction in Victoria and consistently ranked in the top 1% of the world’s universities. 

The Site Director is employed as a liaison, who facilitates teaching and learning across the university and school contexts of the Deakin Alliances.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Maintain appropriate discipline knowledge
• Develop effective learning materials and activities as part of design team or with guidance from Unit Chair
• Demonstrate awareness of ongoing innovation in curriculum design
• Deliver effective teaching practices within unit
• Integrate industry, clinical and/or research practice to teaching
• Work collaboratively as part of a teaching team
• Capacity to lead teaching teams or units of work
• Constructively reviews and refines own teaching practice to help maintain teaching quality standards
• Suggest approaches to innovate teaching practices to improve student success and engagement
• Provide clear assessment criteria and timely feedback to learners to demonstrate learning outcomes
• Assist in developing effective assessment tasks and rubrics at unit level
• Constructively contribute to moderation processes
• Assist in applying industry, clinical and/or research practice into student learning experiences and resources
• Adapt learning material and practices to support diverse learners 
• Facilitate collaborative learning opportunities at the unit level
• Demonstrate awareness of student support and services and guides students to them where appropriate
• Conduct self-evaluation practices and maintains effective mentor relationships
• Demonstrate understanding of and commitment to educational excellence
• Complete professional development programs in Higher Education Learning and Teaching
• Support and assist with teaching scholarship and pedagogical research activity
• Provide an excellent contribution to the school’s teaching programs in the context of Initial Teacher Education Work Integrated Learning and professional practice.
• Undertake professional and administrative roles and responsibilities that enhance the discipline and Deakin.
• Contribute actively to the quality of teaching and learning activities, including identifying and responding to opportunities which advance the discipline, especially in the context of school and educational placements.
• Oversee theoretical, practical and interpersonal dimensions of professional experience placements.
• Support professional development relating to Initial Teacher Education.
• Coordinate the alignment of pre-service teams with localised school improvement initiatives.
• Facilitate evidence-based formative assessment of the pre-service teachers’ performance against the Australian Professional Standards for teachers.
• Lead the integration of professional practice and wellbeing practices across the Alliance partners

Key selection criteria for this role:

Qualifications and experience

• (Desirable) PhD in a relevant discipline and/or other relevant qualifications and experience
• (Desirable) One year’s academic employment experience in an Australian university (excluding a continuing academic appointment)

Required

• Capacity to contribute to teaching and administration
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a proven ability to establish good working relationships with colleagues
• Excellent record of scholarly learning and teaching in UG and/or PG programs, including innovative curriculum design
• Ability to make a contribution to community engagement for teaching
• Excellent communication skills and capacity to support learners across multiple contexts
• Knowledge of the Australian Professional Standards for teachers and a teachers’ professional learning
• A registered teacher with experience teaching in Australian schools or International Contexts
• Experience in technical systems and applications such as Teams, Zoom, Sharepoint, Onedrive and Microsoft and working in an online environment.
• Experience in student online management systems
• Capacity to meet all child safe and immunisation requirements necessary for entry into Victorian schools

For a copy of the position description, please see below:

 PD - #557121 Associate Lecturer, Curriculum and Pedagogy.pdf

Applications for this position close on Sunday 30th June 2024

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent travel will be required within Victoria
• Drivers Licence 
• Working with Children Check (refer to Recruitment Procedure)

Please submit your updated resume, a short cover letter and responses to the Key Selection Criteria.

For a confidential discussion regarding this position, please contact Matthew Thomas (Senior Lecturer, Pedagogy and Curriculum) via email at matthew.thomas@deakin.edu.au

Are You Ready?

Deakin is a Victorian university with a global impact. We are an agile, dynamic, and innovative university committed to making a positive impact through our excellence in education, research and innovation and the contributions we make to the wider community.

We understand that our reputation has been built on the dedication and expertise of our staff and we offer a dynamic and diverse working environment with opportunities to grow and develop careers. We believe that a progressive, thriving culture will ensure that people choose to come, and stay at Deakin and contribute to our ongoing success.

We value diversity and aim to build an inclusive environment that champions, embraces and respects differences. We support and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people of all abilities, cultures, sexual orientation, and genders.

We understand that our academic workforce is increasingly diverse, and we recognise academic careers may be placed on hold throughout many life circumstances. Achievement relative to opportunity places more emphasis on the quality, as opposed to the quantity of research outputs. In your application, we strongly encourage you to comment on your achievements relative to opportunity.