Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Data Science

• Based at our Melbourne, Burwood Campus
• Full-time and continuing
• Level B $104,619 - $123,739 or Level C $127,561 - $146,683 + 17% Superannuation

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 Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Data Science will be responsible for undertaking research, teaching, and publishing in the area of Data Science, including data wrangling, analytics, statistical analysis, machine learning and deep learning to provide insights and develop innovative solutions to important challenges faced by industry and governments. The role will promote the School and maintain links and partnerships with relevant academic, industry and professional communities.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Integrating industry, clinical and/or research practice into unit / course design
• Leading teaching teams to develop effective unit and course curricula and learning material (including through course leadership roles)
• Leading the development and/or adoption of new innovation in curriculum design within a course
• Delivering learner-centric, research-informed teaching practices across different levels / modes of delivery
• Integrating industry, clinical and/or research practice to teaching
• Contribute to or lead review of units and courses and implementing refinements
• Integrate creative and/or innovative teaching practices to improve student success and engagement
• Provide clear assessment criteria and timely feedback to learners to demonstrate learning outcomes
• Develop effective assessment tasks and rubrics at unit and course level
• Initiating, designing, conducting and may lead growing, increasingly productive, high-quality research, scholarship and creative activities generating high impact outputs
• Engaging in and increasingly developing and leading academic or other collaborations that enable novel and high-quality research or creative activities
• Widely communicates outputs to discipline(s), other sectors and the community
• Ensuring impact of academic activity in the field and the community
• Making a significant contribution to seeking funding for research and creative activities
• Initiating, designing, conducting and may increasingly lead increasingly intra- and inter-disciplinary research collaborations, to enable major breakthroughs in knowledge and understanding and solutions to complex problems
• Recruiting and supervising HDR students with timely completions and production, high quality outcomes
• Providing effective mentoring to HDR students and ECRs to support professional and career development and employability

Key selection criteria for this role:

Level B

• PhD in a relevant discipline and/or other relevant qualifications and experience
• Excellent record of scholarly learning and teaching in UG and/or PG programs, including innovative curriculum design
• Emerging reputation in research and scholarship through publications and/or exhibitions and/or success in obtaining external research funding
• Ability to make a contribution to community engagement for research and teaching
• Capacity to contribute to leadership of teaching, research and/or administration
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a proven ability to establish good working relationships with colleagues

Level C

• PhD in a relevant discipline and/or advanced qualifications and experience in the relevant discipline area
• Excellent record of scholarly learning and teaching in UG and/or PG programs, including innovative curriculum design and research supervision
• Nationally recognised research reputation underpinned by publications in quality journals and/or exhibitions and/or success in obtaining external research grants
• Positive engagement with research, community, industry and government to enhance the national standing of the discipline
• Demonstrated capacity and passion for leadership of teaching, research and/or administration
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a proven ability to establish good working relationships with colleagues

Applications for this position close on 2 March 2023.

Successful applicants will need to comply with vaccination mandates imposed by the relevant state/territory government. Applicants who attend third-party sites to undertake University activities will also be required to comply with any other directions or requirements in place at the third-party location.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Infrequent travel will be required (e.g., interstate or overseas travel may be required and regular travel within Victoria, including between campuses)
• Drivers Licence 
• Working with Children Check

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 Richard, Dazeley, Interim Head of School, via richard.dazeley@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.