Senior Lecturer

About Flinders

Our bold vision, captured in our Strategic Plan: making a Difference: The 2025 Agenda, is to be internationally recognised as a world leader in research, an innovator in contemporary education, and the source of Australia’s most enterprising graduates.

To realise this ambition, we recently made a significant organisation change to a six College structure with a professional staff and services alignment.

We recognise the key to our success is exceptional people and we’re seeking an outstanding individual to join the team of our transformed university.

Employment Type:

Continuing

Position Summary

Availability
Continuing Part-Time (0.6 FTE)
Compensation Grade
Academic Level C
Salary Range
$124,109 – $142,764
Reporting to
Discipline Group Lead, Public Health
College of Medicine and Public Health
This Teaching Specialist (Academic) position, with its primary focus on teaching and teaching-related activities has an important role to play in the University’s achievement of its strategic plan, Making a Difference: The 2025 Agenda.
The University is committed to a student-centred ethos and to developing creative, enterprising, career-ready graduates prepared to become lifelong contributors to society. In accordance with the strategic plan, the University seeks to:
• deliver a richly interactive and personalised approach to learning focussed on student success;
• be an international leader in educational innovation, advanced learning technologies and learning analytics; and
• develop enterprising graduates equipped with the skills required for success in the knowledge economy.
Public health concerns itself with preventing disease, reducing inequities, and building healthy communities. In the Discipline Group of Public Health, College of Medicine and Public Health, we aim to give our students a transformational education that equips them with the skills and knowledge to contribute to these outcomes.
We offer courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and take pride in being innovators in public health education content, experiences and delivery. We have a strong emphasis in teaching Social Determinants of Health, First Nations Health, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Health Promotion and offer a range of electives that reflect the diversity of public health.
We are focussed on building the future workforce of our public health partners such as health departments, community organisations, health services and non- government health organisations in South Australia, the Northern Territory and beyond.
We have a student- centred approach and incorporate continuous curriculum development and improvement. Our staff are intellectual leaders in public health, and adaptive and responsive to changing community and global needs. Our work is underpinned by the values of the College of People, Culture, Excellence and Social Vision.
The Senior Lecturer will provide dynamic leadership in delivering excellence in teaching and learning across the suite of public health topics and courses. The Senior Lecturer will be responsible for making a significant and wide-ranging contribution to leadership in teaching and scholarship of teaching using innovations in teaching practices, pedagogies, and technologies to deliver excellence in teaching.
The Senior Lecturer will also have a key leadership role in service to the College and University.

Key Position Responsibilities

This position is predominantly concerned with providing leadership and direction related to teaching and teaching-related duties involving the creation, delivery and continuous quality improvement of university-level education. It includes (but is not limited to): direct teaching informed by approaches that enhance the student experience; educational leadership; curriculum design and review; delivery innovation; advancements in education technologies; and leadership in ensuring internal and external compliance and accreditation of courses. The position is also expected to make a leadership contribution to high-quality university, professional and community service, which may extend from the local level to national or international.
Teaching:

• Create, coordinate and conduct inspiring teaching informed by approaches that enhance the student experience, with a focus on Public Health topics, across all levels and modes of the College.

• Contribute to the planning and evaluation of these topics, undertaking the roles of Topic Coordinator and Couse Coordinator as required.

• Play a lead role in the review, renewal, development and design of curricula and courses that are attractive to existing and new cohorts of students and that nurture creativity and critical-thinking skills.

• Provide support, academic counselling and professional advice to students concerning their studies, professional development and career opportunities.

• Make effective use of innovations and technologies in teaching practice.

• Provide educational leadership and dissemination of best practice, ensuring awareness and utilisation of contemporary education principles.

• Engage in coaching, mentoring, supervising student projects; research higher degree supervision as an Adjunct Supervisor.
   

University, Professional and Service:

• Contribute at a significant level in the College’s administrative activities such as leadership on committees and working groups and attendance at and/or coordination of College meetings.

• Significant involvement in and/or leading activities relating to internal and external compliance and professional accreditation of courses.

• Maintain professional knowledge relevant to teaching within their discipline through scholarship and professional development.

• Engage in activities within a relevant external professional domain such as professional associations, conferences and workshops, and within a wider community context at local, national or international level.

• Provide leadership in, coordination of, development of and/or leading international activities including student mobility programs, internationalisation of curricula and ensuring the relevance of curricula to

• international students or that enhance intercultural skills development in students.

• Provide high quality contribution to community service on behalf of the College and University.

• Undertake activities that promote the development of productive partnerships to provide opportunities for students and promote graduate employability.

• Any other responsibilities in line with the level of the position as assigned by the Supervisor and/or the University.

Key Position Capabilities

• Completion of a PhD, or EdD, or equivalent qualification in education, public health, health behaviour science, health promotion or another related field.

• Evidence of application of pedagogical theory and contemporary educational practice relevant to public health.

• Evidence of sustained use of learning and teaching approaches which enhance student success.

• Experience of significant and sustained relevant teaching and learning experience at a tertiary level.

• Evidence of significant and sustained excellence in teaching performance at a tertiary level.

• Evidence of successful and sustained topic and/or course coordination.

• Evidence of significant and independent innovation in learning and teaching delivery or design.

• Demonstrated capacity for successful leadership of teaching teams at course and/or the program level.

• Evidence of scholarship of teaching and of professional development in higher education teaching.

• Demonstrated strong understanding of the nexus between teaching and learning, research and scholarship.

• Capacity to develop programs for international off-shore delivery independently or in collaboration with external partners.

• Demonstrated experience and innovation using online learning platforms for teaching purposes.

• Development of teaching materials to be used by others.

• Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills and interpersonal skills, including the demonstrated ability to establish effective relationships with staff, students and industry nationally and/or internationally.

• Has provided leadership to professional activities within a relevant external professional domain and within a wider community context at local, national or international level which could include topic/course coordinator, major award programs, leadership in quality assurance processes and relationship building with external parties including consultancy work and conferences.

• Tertiary qualifications in Education (Desirable).
   

Prescribed Conditions for Employment

• Flinders University has introduced a COVID-19 Vaccination Policy that requires all new staff members to be up to date with their COVID-19 vaccinations, subject to medical exemptions. 

How to Apply

Please review the Key Position Capabilities of the Position Description and submit a Suitability Statement of no more than 3 pages addressing the criteria. Applications without a Suitability Statement may not be considered. For more information, please see our How To Apply page.

For more information regarding this position, please contact Ray Mahoney.

Information for Applicants:

A valid National Police Certificate which is satisfactory to the University will also be required before the successful applicant can commence in this position.

We are seeking to increase the diversity to improve equal opportunity outcomes for employees, and therefore we encourage female applicants, people with a disability and/or from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders descent to apply.

Please note, late applications and applications sent via agencies will not be accepted.

Applications Close 11:59pm:

18 Oct 2022