Job no: 574733
Work type: Education-focused Academic, Part-time
Location: Geelong - Waurn Ponds

Categories: Health

• Based at our Geelong, Waurn Ponds Campus
• Part-time 0.8 and continuing in the School of Medicine
• Level B $113,157 - $133,837 + 17% Superannuation (pro rata, part time)
• Applications are currently being accepted exclusively from our current and former sessional academic cohorts at Deakin. Applicants must have been engaged as a sessional academic at Deakin University within two years of the advertising date to be eligible to apply. Applications that do not meet this criteria will not be considered at this time.

We are pleased to offer Deakin’s newest employment classification; the Education-focused Academic. 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.

As a Lecturer in Medical Education, Education-focused, you will:

• Demonstrate excellent scholarly learning and teaching across the foundational years of the degree, and various modes (including for example the cloud and in clinical settings).
• Contribute to the review of units and courses and implement refinements.
• Demonstrate emerging reputation in the scholarship of teaching and educational development through independent contribution to pedagogical research activity and publication in learning and teaching, including testing the effectiveness of innovations designed to improve student and graduate outcomes including graduate employment.
• Assist in integrating new pedagogical research across all aspects of education.
• Demonstrate evidence of a developing profile in the scholarship of teaching and educational development, high levels of discipline-related expertise and pedagogical knowledge and/or evidence of contribution to discipline-based research

The Lecturer in Medical Education will teach within the Doctor of Medicine program, in addition to broader contributions to the program through scholarship in their area of expertise. The appointee will promote the School and establish and maintain links and partnerships with the academic, industry and professional communities. The appointee will make an independent contribution to the School and Faculty’s teaching, research, program development, and relevant service activities.
They will work collaboratively with unit teaching teams and other unit teaching teams in the course at Waurn Ponds campus and the rural clinical schools to develop effective unit curricula and learning resources and coordinate the Years 1-2 clinical placement program.
This position is suited to a person with an emerging record and passion for learning and teaching, and a keen interest in contributing to community engagement for teaching and employability.

As a Lecturer in Medical Education, Education-focused, you will:

• Demonstrate excellent scholarly learning and teaching across the foundational years of the degree, and various modes (including for example the cloud and in clinical settings).
• Contribute to the review of units and courses and implement refinements.
• Demonstrate emerging reputation in the scholarship of teaching and educational development through independent contribution to pedagogical research activity and publication in learning and teaching, including testing the effectiveness of innovations designed to improve student and graduate outcomes including graduate employment.
• Assist in integrating new pedagogical research across all aspects of education.
• Demonstrate evidence of a developing profile in the scholarship of teaching and educational development, high levels of discipline-related expertise and pedagogical knowledge and/or evidence of contribution to discipline-based research.