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Deakin offers a variety of benefits that ensure a positive balance between work and your personal life, and the opportunity to develop your career through advanced learning opportunities. We also have flexible work arrangements, salary packaging options and various leave plans to suit your needs.

• Based at our Geelong, Waurn Ponds Campus
• Full-time and Continuing
• Level B $104,619 - $123,739 + 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 will be responsible to undertake research, teach and publish in the area of Cloud and Enterprise Networks. The role will promote the School and maintain links and partnerships with relevant academic, industry and professional communities. The lecturer will work with and sometimes lead teaching teams to develop effective unit curricula and learning resources (including through unit leadership roles) and will support the integration and development of new technologies for teaching Cloud and Enterprise Networks to support active learning styles. Additionally, the lecturer will supervise students in multi-disciplinary capstone projects teams working on Cloud challenges.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining deep discipline knowledge which is applied to inform unit design in the area of Cloud and Enterprise Networks
• Leading teaching teams to develop effective unit curricula and learning resources (including through unit leadership roles)
• Integrating and developing new technologies for teaching Cloud and Enterprise Networks to support active learning styles
• Adopting new innovation in curriculum design at the unit level
• Leading unit teaching teams and works collaboratively with other unit teaching teams in the course
• Contribute to review of units and courses and implements refinements
• Provide academic support to students within units
• Advance knowledge within their specific fields/areas of teaching scholarship and pedagogical research activity
• Contribute to discipline-based educational or pedagogy research projects
• Initiate, designs and conducts and may lead productive, high-quality research, scholarship and creative activities generating high impact outputs in the area of Cloud and Enterprise Networks
• Initiate, design, conduct and may lead innovation and translation into policies, frameworks, strategy, priority setting and other outcomes to create positive impact
• Supporting attraction of external funding for commercialization and translation activities

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Infrequent travel may be required within Victoria, including between campuses) 
• 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 School of IT HR on IT-HR@deakin.edu.au

Applications for this position close on Friday 15th September 2023

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. 

Key selection criteria for this role:

• 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

Please tap the APPLY NOW button in this page, tap JOB PORTAL and upload the following documents (PDF files)

• A Cover Letter addressing your suitability for the position
• Your current CV/Resume
• Your responses to the Selection Criteria (found in the Position Description)