Dates
- 18-Jul-2024 - Closing Date
Responsibilities
- Represent and promote the interests of Film and Television within the VCA, Faculty, University, and the external community, including participating in relevant executive and committee meetings.
- Maintain oversight of curriculum development, ensuring high-quality teaching, continuous improvement, and alignment with strategic plans, while managing staff and fostering their development.
- Manage the financial performance of the discipline, including budget planning, expenditure monitoring, and revenue generation, while ensuring compliance with University policies and financial requirements.
- Engage with educational and screen-industry bodies to inform strategic directions, establish industry links, and pursue research opportunities to enhance the discipline's and University's international standing.
- Foster multidisciplinary collaboration, create a strategic research plan, maintain personal and departmental research excellence, mentor staff, seek international research opportunities, and supervise high-quality graduate research students.
Requirements
- A PhD, Doctorate, or equivalent professional practice.
- Demonstrated management skills, including inclusive decision-making, planning, budgeting, and resource distribution.
- Strong commitment to teaching at all levels, innovation in curriculum design, and significant contributions to higher education.
- Comprehensive knowledge of University policies and procedures, especially related to student and staff matters, curriculum, and wellbeing.
- Proven leadership in fostering scholarly excellence, promoting research, developing research training, and effectively managing staff and community engagement.
Benefits
- Salary packaging
- Subsidised health and wellbeing services
- Fitness and cultural clubs
- Myki discounts
- 25% discount on graduate courses to staff and their immediate families.
Notes
- A tenure-track appointment, with the opportunity to shape the future of the industry as Head of Film and Television
- Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
Extras
- After seven days of internal advertising, current casual or fixed-term employees of the University will be provided with prior opportunity to apply for and be considered for vacant continuing positions if they meet specific criteria.
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Associate Lecturer/Lecturer (EF) in Visual effects (VFX) – School of Art & Design
The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) Paddington, NSW
Dates
- Opening Date: 20-Sep-2024
- Closing Date: 06-Oct-2024
Location
- Paddington, NSW
Salary
- Level A ($88,290 - $117,718) or Level B ($123,620 - $145,730) + 17% Superannuation and annual leave loading
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate and continuously develop a well-defined teaching philosophy that inspires student learning.
- Conduct classes, assess student learning achievements and support students in line with UNSW policy and with guidance of more senior academics.
- Design and develop learning activities and resources, and assessment and feedback using a range of appropriate approaches and learning environments with the support of more senior academics.
- Contribute to the development of experimental approaches to teaching and learning led by more senior academics.
- Support learning progression with students as individuals (through such activities as one-to-one consultation) and as a cohort (through general course related advice) to achieve positive learning and employability outcomes for students.
- Manage course administration, including academic quality assurance.
Requirements
- A Masters degree or PhD (preferred) in a related discipline, and/or relevant work experience.
- High-level understandings of the principles of animation, visual effects, and related interdisciplinary practices, and the theoretical underpinnings of these principles.
- Detailed understandings of screen-based visual languages, including fundamentals of storytelling, as well as expanded and experimental media arts practices.
- Knowledge of industry standard 3D animation and visual effects pipelines including animation workflows, character rigs, storyboard interpretation, concept art, compositing, motion capture, procedural FX, and real-time production workflows.
- Experience with Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop and After Effects.
- In-depth knowledge of visual effects and real-time production programs such as Nuke, Unreal Engine, and Houdini.
- Detailed understandings of theory and practice in the areas of media arts, animation, and visual effects, and a commitment to fostering experimental approaches to practice.
Benefits
- Flexible Working Options (work from home, flexible hours etc)
- Career development opportunities
- 17% Superannuation contributions and additional leave loading payments
- Additional 3 days of leave over Christmas period
- Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness)
Notes
Lecturer in Theatre and Performance – School of the Arts and Media (UNSW)
The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) Kensington, NSW
Dates
- Opening Date: 16-Sep-2024
- Closing Date: 16-Oct-2024
Location
- Kensington, NSW
Salary
- Remuneration Level B position $123,620 - $145,730 + 17% Superannuation and annual leave loading
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate and continuously develop a well-defined teaching philosophy that inspires student learning.
- Conduct classes, assess student learning achievements and support students in postgraduate and undergraduate courses in line with UNSW policy.
- Design and develop learning activities and resources and provide assessment and feedback using a range of suitable approaches and learning environments.
- Initiate the development of experimental approaches to teaching and learning with the support of more senior academics.
- Support learning progression with students as individuals (through such activities as one-to-one consultation) and as a cohort (through general course related advice) to achieve positive learning and employability outcomes for students.
- Manage course administration as Course Authority, including academic quality assurance.
Requirements
- Hold Australian Working Rights or Australian Citizenship.
- A completed PhD/DCA in a relevant discipline.
- Demonstrated experience in practice-based approaches to acting and performing, including in global majority and/or First Nations approaches to theatre-making.
- Demonstrated commitment to diversifying, decolonising and/or Indigenising curriculum.
- Demonstrated ability to teach undergraduate students at a range of levels and in a range of formats, including the ability to use educational technologies and online methods.
- Demonstrated ability to support diverse students with a range of learning styles and needs, and the capacity for curriculum design.
- Demonstrated ability to supervise Honours and postgraduate students.
- Strong record in research with a developing profile in traditional and/or Non-Traditional Research Outputs relevant to the discipline.
- Potential to attract research grants.
Benefits
- Flexible Working Options (work from home, flexible hours etc)
- Career development opportunities
- 17% Superannuation contributions and additional leave loading payments
- Additional 3 days of leave over Christmas period
- Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness)
Notes