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As a Lecturer, of Applied Artificial Intelligence, you will:

Education and Employability

• Lead unit teaching teams and work collaboratively with other unit teaching teams in the course to develop effective unit curricula and learning resources

• Assist in applying industry, clinical and/or research practice into student learning experiences, success, engagement and resources.

• Adopt innovation in curriculum design at the unit level and deliver learner-centric, research-informed teaching practices across different levels/modes of delivery.

• Design collaborative learning opportunities and develop effective assessment tasks and rubrics at unit level.

• Provide academic support to students within units and guide students to appropriate support services where appropriate.

• Contribute effectively to a culture of educational excellence and engage collaboratively with peers. Build teaching and learning capability related to discipline or pedagogy and effective unit teaching teams and support the professional development of junior colleagues.

• Assist in integrating new pedagogical research across all aspects of education.

Research and Innovation

• Support, and may lead, applications for research and creative activities and communicate outputs to discipline(s) and the community and ensure impact of academic activity in the field and the community ·

• Build a national reputation, based on a growing, focused body of work recognised for quality, excellence and impact and a growing track record of timely delivery of outcomes for industry partners.

• Initiate, design, conduct and may lead intra- and inter-disciplinary research collaborations, development of industry partnerships and collaboration

• Initiate, design, conduct and may lead innovation and translation into policies, frameworks, strategy, generation of products, services, new ways of operating, priority setting and or other innovations with positive impact and national recognition

• Supervise honours and/or HDR students with timely completions and productive, high-quality outcomes and provide effective mentoring to HDR students to support professional and career development and employability.

• Adopt and promote a culture of research excellence, innovation, impact and support

• PhD in Computer Science or other 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 contribute to communities through research.

• Capacity to contribute to leadership of research and administration.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and a proven ability to establish good working relationships with colleagues.

Please tap the APPLY NOW button in CAMPUS RADAR and upload the following documents (PDF files)

• A short Cover Letter addressing your suitability for the position
• Your current CV/Resume
• Your responses to the Selection Criteria (found above and in the POSITION DESCRIPTION).

Tap on POSITION DESCRIPTION in this page to download. Upload your application via your CAMPUS RADAR dashboard.

For any questions regarding this role, please contact It-hr@deakin.edu.au

Applications for this position close on 19 March 2024 at 11.55pm.