• Salary Package: Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Level A), from $91,991 (step 6) to $98,588 (step 8) p.a., plus 17% employer's superannuation and annual leave loading
• Appointment Type: fixed term until 15 December 2023. Part-time (2.5 days per week)
• Macquarie University (North Ryde) location

The Role

The Department of Psychology at Macquarie University is currently seeking a suitably qualified Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join a multidisciplinary team working on a Defence Sciences and Technology funded grant project exploring the effects of at-sea deployment on Navy personnel. Across three years the team will be working to understand the effects of at-sea deployment on a range of outcomes including cognitive performance, job performance, chronic stress and resilience. We will be seeking to identify the major job demands contributing to reductions in these outcomes as well as the job and personal resources sustaining resilience. The project is anticipated to have important implications for Navy policy and job design. The successful applicant will work with Dr Monique Crane, as well as with other lead researchers on the grant.

The Candidate should be available to start by 13^th January 2019.

Specifically, the post-doctoral researcher will:

• Contribute to the development of ethics submissions
• Contribute to scale development and validation
• Develop their own research questions related to the overarching grant objectives
• Assist with the conduct of interviews with Navy personnel in Perth and Sydney
• Analysis of interview data
• Administration of longitudinal data collection including cognitive assessments. This may involve domestic and international travel and on board Navy vessels.
• Analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal data for publication
• Manuscript drafting for peer review
• Assisting with drafting reports for stakeholders

About You

By the time of employment, you will have completed a PhD in Psychology or a related field and have an interest in military psychology or psychological resilience. You are expected to have excellent written and oral communication skills, and ability to liaise with internal and external stakeholders at all levels. You will have strong research skills preferably including experience in the analysis of qualitative data; longitudinal data (e.g., multi-level modelling, latent growth modelling); and/or network analysis. Ideally you have human subjects research experience and are willing and able to collect data at sea aboard a Navy ship.

About Us

The position is for research conducted by the University’s Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise, and Training (CEPET) within the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Human Sciences.

The Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise, and Training (CEPET) at Macquarie University conducts multidisciplinary research designed to address three core problems in the study of elite performance and expertise: understanding its acquisition, its maintenance, and its loss. CEPET comprises researchers from the Departments of Psychology, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Computing, Engineering, and Anthropology, with research funding from the ARC, industry partners, and a wide array of other Cooperative Research Centres. For more information about CEPET visit us today.

Department of Psychology at Macquarie has an exceptional record in research, scholarship, teaching and community service and is ranked among the top institutions in the world. Our department has a unique hands-on approach and is renowned for the breadth and diversity of areas included in the curriculum, the range of methodologies used, a commitment to academic as well as professional programs and an emphasis on fundamental and applied research.

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To Apply

To be considered for this position, please apply online by submitting your CV, a relevant or representative peer-review publication, and a separate cover 2-page letter that demonstrates how you meet the following selection criteria:

Essential

• PhD in Psychology or a related field.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, and a demonstrated record of peer-reviewed journal or conference proceeding publications.
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Demonstrated skills in co-ordinating and contributing to research projects.
• Proven capacity for resilience and ability to adapt to changes in projects plans (e.g., timeline shifts).
• Demonstrated capability to mentor and/or supervise others, particularly in student research supervision.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity in the workplace.

Desirable

• An interest in military psychology or psychological resilience.
• Human subjects research experience.
• Experience in the analysis of qualitative data.
• Experience in the conduct of longitudinal research.
• Experience in the analysis of longitudinal data (e.g., multi-level modelling, latent growth modelling).
• Experience in network analysis
• Preparedness to collect data on board Navy ships.

This position requires criminal record and qualifications checking.

This position may require some interstate and international travel.

Specific Enquiries: Dr Monique Crane, Centre for Elite Performance Training and Expertise and Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, monique.crane@mq.edu.au

General Enquiries: Rohana Nagarajah, HR Administrator at rohana.nagarajah@mq.edu.au  or on 9850-8352

Applications Close: Wednesday 20^th November 2019 11:55 pm (AEDT)

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