Loading...
Lecturer, Health Professions Education, Assessment and Evaluation, Education Focused
Deakin University Geelong - Waurn Ponds
Apply here
Expired
Lecturer, Health Professions Education, Assessment and Evaluation, Education Focused
Job no: 555297
Work type: Education-focused Academic, Part-time
Location: Geelong - Waurn Ponds
Categories: Health
Work type: Education-focused Academic, Part-time
Location: Geelong - Waurn Ponds
Categories: Health
- Based at our Geelong, Waurn Ponds Campus
- Part-time 0.8FTE (non-negotiable) and continuing in School of Medicine
- Level B $108,804 - $128,689 + 17% Superannuation (pro rata, part time)
We are pleased to offer Deakin’s newest employment classification; the Education-focused Academic (EFA). These roles are tailored for academics dedicated to student-centred teaching, fostering a passion for teaching excellence and pioneering innovative educational practices. We invite applications from current and former sessional academics engaged with Deakin within the past two years. This presents a remarkable opportunity to contribute to shaping and co-designing this new academic career pathway, offering a genuine and meaningful option for those whose strengths lie in teaching and learning.
The Faculty of Health is dedicated to being at the forefront of teaching, learning, creativity, social development, and groundbreaking research and discovery. We work closely with industry partners and government bodies to translate discoveries into real-word impact. This role will specifically be working within the School of Medicine.
About the role:
The role will work with the Associate Head of School Learning and Teaching to support teaching teams in UG and/or PG programs to deliver high quality assessments and evaluations. The position will work closely with academics to coordinate design and delivery of online assessments and support academics to achieve best practice in assessment, evaluation and feedback strategies. The position will initiate, design and conduct productive, high-quality research, scholarship and creative activities generating high impact outputs in their discipline area. The Education-focused Academic may lead and participate in research activities and is expected to engage collaboratively to develop novel research outcomes.
This position is suited to a person with an excellent record and passion for scholarly learning and teaching and a keen interest in exploring and building on new areas of research and researcher development to have real-world impact.
As an Education-focused Academic you will:
- Apply knowledge of best practice to inform design, implementation, interpretation/reporting and quality improvement of assessment.
- Work collaboratively with unit teaching teams and professional staff in the school to develop and implement innovative and effective assessment practices utilising digital technologies.
- Contribute to monitoring and adaptation of assessment practices to improve learning outcomes through provision of timely advice and analysis, including high-quality feedback to learners.
- Contribute to the development and delivery of Indigenous Health assessment activities, in consultation with the School’s Indigenous Health Professional Education team.
- Maintain the school’s digital assessment platforms and provide training and support to enable capacity building across programs.
To be successful, you’ll have:
- PhD in a relevant discipline including Psychology or Education and/or other relevant qualifications and experience
- Experience in designing, implementing, reporting and quality improvement of assessment in the tertiary education environment – with a focus on the provision of high-quality feedback to learners.
- Capacity to contribute to leadership with respect to assessment design, analysis and evaluation.
- Emerging reputation in research and scholarship through publications and/or exhibitions and/or success in obtaining external research funding.
Here's how to apply:
To be eligible to apply, you must currently be a sessional academic at Deakin or have been previously engaged as a sessional academic at Deakin within the last two years of the advertising date.
To find out if you are eligible to apply, please contact People Connect peopleconnect@deakin.edu.au or +61 3 5247 9999.
Please submit your updated resume, a short cover letter and responses to the Key Selection Criteria.
For a confidential discussion regarding this role, please contact Janet Mc Leod (Associate Head of School (Learning and Teaching) on j.mcleod@deakin.edu.au.
For a copy of the position description, please see below:
Applications for this position close on 25th June at 11:55pm.