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Lecturer in Teaching and Learning, Built Environments Learning + Teaching

Employer
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Closing date
11 Oct 2021

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Job Details

Work type: Fixed Term
Location: Parkville
Division/Faculty: Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Salary: $107,547 - $127,707 (Level B)
Role & Superannuation rate: Academic - Full time - 17% super

A great opportunity to join the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne as a Lecturer (Learning and Teaching); Built Environments Teaching + Learning (BEL+T).  This full-time fixed-term appointment is available for 14 months.

The successful candidate will join Built Environments Teaching + Learning (BEL+T), a group established in 2018 within the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning to focus on the research and delivery of excellent education in built environment disciplines. The work of the group draws on creative problem-solving and design-led approaches, evidence-based research methodologies, and project-focused consultancy, to improve teaching quality and student engagement. The BEL+T group explores contemporary and emergent teaching methods, tailored to built environment disciplines and the specific pedagogic challenges and opportunities they present. Supporting the development of skills and knowledge that graduates will bring to our future built environments is the focus of the group’s collaborations within and beyond the Faculty.

In line with the Faculty’s strategic initiatives, academic positions and resources have been committed to review, adapt and implement improved and effective modes of teaching and learning in built environment disciplines. The Faculty’s current teaching modes primarily include studio teaching, tutorial and lecture-based formats. The nature of teaching and learning is changing with the incorporation of flipped, blended and dual delivery approaches, and development of digital learning tools and on-line modules. These innovations have been accelerated in response to the challenges of COVID-19.

The successful candidate will have a proven ability to make significant contributions to learning and teaching, and to research and engagement that focuses on their demonstrated expertise.  They will undertake an important role in the Built Environments Learning + Teaching (BEL+T) group to support the Faculty’s strategic initiatives focused on the improvement of Teaching Quality and Student Engagement, and uplift of Blended Learning delivery. Focused projects in the short-term will support sessional staff engagement and skill development, incorporation of indigenous knowledges in built environments programs, effective measures of teaching quality, and development of design and pedagogy in specific subjects. 

To ensure the University provides a safe environment for children, this position requires the incumbent to hold a current and valid Working with Children Check.

Due to Australian immigration regulations, applicants must have Australian work rights. We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from different cultural backgrounds and people with disabilities.

For information to assist you with compiling short statements to answer the selection criteria, please go to:
https://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/selection-criteria

Benefits

  • Maximise your benefits through our Salary Packaging scheme
  • Flexible family friendly policies, providing generous leave and working conditions
  • The opportunity to work in a culturally rich environment
  • A substantial discount to eligible staff and their immediate families in undertaking further studies at the University of Melbourne

To find out more, go to http://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/staff-benefits  

Please note the close date has been updated. 

Position Description

Applications close: 11 Oct 2021 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time

Company

The University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings consistently placing us as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and one of the world’s top 50*.

Melbourne attracts the best and brightest students and researchers and, with a history of over 160 years, we occupy a special place at the heart of our city’s cultural scene.

Melbourne is a leading research university, widely renowned for its teaching and the social and economic contributions it makes through knowledge transfer. The University’s performance in international rankings puts it at the forefront of higher education in the Asia-Pacific and beyond.

Internationally, the University is consistently ranked among the leading universities in the world, with its international peers placing it in the top 20 worldwide, and employers placing it in the top 10. In the recent Times Higher Education rankings of the world’s top 200 universities, Melbourne ranked top in Australia and 33 in the world.

Melbourne’s international research pre-eminence was also acknowledged with a top 100 ranking in the Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings. Ranked No. 44 in 2015, the University has climbed steadily in the rankings since first appearing at No. 92 in 2003.

The Melbourne Model introduces undergraduate programs characterised by both breadth and depth, followed by a graduate professional degree, a research higher degree or entry directly into employment.

In 2008 Melbourne commenced offering six New Generation undergraduate degrees in Arts, Biomedicine, Commerce, Environments, Music and Science. The Melbourne Model also introduces a new graduate school experience to Australia, providing the best and brightest with a more focused, intense and professionally relevant degree in areas such as Law, Architecture, Teaching and Nursing. With the Melbourne curriculum now aligning the University with the world’s top universities in Europe, North America and Asia, we enable our students to develop the skills and attributes required by employers all over the world.

More than 50,000 students from over 120 countries take courses in the University’s 12 faculties and graduate schools.

For more information please visit: http://www.unimelb.edu.au

*Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015

Company info
Telephone
+61 (3) 8344 4000
Location

Parkville
Melbourne
Victoria
VIC 3010
Australia

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