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Tutor/Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Music, Music Therapy

Job Details

Work type: Continuing, Fixed Term
Location: Southbank
Division/Faculty: Fine Arts and Music
Department/School: School of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
Role & Superannuation rate: Academic - Full time - 17% super

Salary:

  • Level A    $72,083 - $97,812 p.a.
  • Level B    $102,967 - $122,268 p.a.
  • Level C    $126,128 - $145,431 p.a.

Plus 9.5% or 17% superannuation. Levels of appointment are subject to the appointees' qualifications and experience. The positions will be either full-time or part-time (negotiable) and either fixed term or continuing.

A division within the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM), the discipline of Music Therapy is the largest of its kind in any Australian music school, having been established in 1978 and grown steadily over the past three decades. It is a flourishing area that has produced graduates of outstanding quality and competitive success who fill international positions in Universities and have established numerous new positions. The division focuses on research driven practice, with a balance of theory, methods, clinical training and research.

The Role:

We currently have up to four teaching and research positions available in our Music Therapy team. Appointees will make significant contributions to music therapy pedagogy, research and research training, and knowledge transfer activities of the MCM. Core duties of the roles will involve teaching and coordination of music therapy subjects, acquisition of research funding from government or industry sources, and contribution to committees at MCM, Faculty and University level.

You:

We invite applications from experienced music therapy researchers and educators who have demonstrated their commitment to building partnerships with graduate researchers, academic colleagues and industry partners.  Ideal candidates will have the skills, knowledge and attitudes that will enable them to become leaders within the music profession nationally and internationally as well as making an academic, research and pedagogical contribution to music therapy within the MCM.

You will hold a PhD in music therapy, have expertise as a music therapy teacher in both face-to-face and online platforms, have demonstrated teaching skills at the University level, accreditation with the Australian Music Therapy Association and an academic publication record.

Location:

Based in the beautiful Southbank Campus of the University of Melbourne, you will work nestled amongst Melbourne’s major arts and cultural organisations and venues. You will have the convenience of great transport links to the rest of the city with the serenity of the Botanical Gardens close by.

The Details:

The expected start date is January 2020 (or as negotiated). Please download a copy of the full position description for more details.

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

Position Description

0048348.pdf

Applications close: 14 Jul 2019 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Standard 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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