| Position Title: | Associate Lecturer |
| Vacancy Reference No: | 28404 |
| Closing Date: | 4 November 2008 |
| Department / Division: | Music & Sound, Creative Industries Faculty |
| Campus: | Kelvin Grove |
| Classification/Salary Range: | $47 921 to $65 025 pa (Level A) |
| Plus Superannuation: | 17% employer contribution |
| Status: | Ongoing |
| Contact Name and Title: | Professor Julian Knowles, Portfolio Director |
| HR Contact and Title: | Emily Paynter, Acting Senior HR Advisor |
Open to: Australian and International applicants
INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS
This position is part of the Early Career Academic Development Program at QUT. The appointees will participate in an extensive development program specifically designed for this cohort. The program which is conducted over one year aims to provide participants with a comprehensive suite of skills, knowledge and abilities to ensure success in an academic career. Each successful application will also receive a grant of up to $15 000 to assist with their scholarly development. For further information on the program and QUT please see
http://www.hrd.qut.edu.au/staff/development/academic/ecard.jsp
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
QUT defines an Early Career Academic as a person who has been in an academic role for less than three years.
The growing creative industries sector requires individual creativity, skill and talent and offers diverse and rewarding career opportunities. QUT’s Creative Industries Faculty is supporting growth in the sector by delivering courses, pursuing research opportunities and by facilitating the creation of new works.
QUT Music has a focus on contemporary and emerging forms of music practice and is characterised by a strong industry and practical focus. The music industry has undergone unprecedented change in the past five years with new channels for artists to reach and build audiences via Web 2.0 sites and other social media networks, opening up new possibilities alongside traditional major label and publisher models. QUT Music is committed to preparing music graduates to be successful in this rapidly changing world. In line with this commitment, we are revising our program to reflect up-to-the-minute approaches and to provide a unique opportunity within the Australian tertiary music sector for students to undertake a future-focused music program that reflects current and emerging practices. The successful applicant will build our talent base behind this commitment and will contribute to teaching and research in these areas. They will have current industry experience, active industry links and understand the key shifts which have occurred in the music industry in the last 5-10 years. This is a full time appointment, but consideration would also be given to an applicant who wished to be part-time in order to maintain their industry practice.
The successful applicant will join a dynamic team and will be responsible for teaching and coordination at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The ideal applicant would be qualified to contribute towards creative practice-led research in music, as well as demonstrating the capacity to coordinate and teach into a number music and related disciplinary units.
DUTY STATEMENT
Position Purpose
The appointee will be responsible for teaching current, industry-relevant approaches to the creation, presentation, promotion and distribution of music within a course that seeks to develop successful independent creative musicians. The appointee will maintain strong industry links for the program, leveraging these for the benefit of students, and will contribute to the research effort through high-level creative practice and traditional modes of research.
Organisational Relationships
The Associate Lecturer reports to the Portfolio Director – Art and Design, Dance, Music & Sound. The position will liaise extensively with discipline staff and other academics within the Creative Industries Faculty. The position will also liaise with academic staff within faculties across the university with respect to interfaculty courses.
General standard
An associate lecturer is expected to make contributions to the teaching effort of the University, particularly at undergraduate and graduate diploma level and to carry out activities to develop his/her scholarly, research and/or professional expertise relevant to the profession or discipline.
Specific duties
Specific duties of an associate lecturer may include:
Academic leadership
- Limited administrative functions primarily connected with units in which the academic teaches.
- Development of subject area material with appropriate guidance from the unit, subject area or course coordinator.
- Acting as unit coordinator provided that skills and experience demonstrate this capacity.
- Attendance at school and/or faculty meetings and/or membership of a limited number of committees.
- The most complex levels of unit coordination should not be carried out by an associate lecturer.
Research and scholarship
- The conduct of research.
Teaching performance and leadership
- The conduct of tutorials, practical classes, demonstrations, workshops, student field excursions, clinical sessions and/or studio sessions.
- The preparation and delivery of lectures and seminars provided that skills and experience demonstrate this capacity.
- Consultation with students.
- Marking and assessment primarily connected with units in which the academic teaches.
- Production of teaching materials for students for whom the academic has responsibility.
- An associate lecturer will not be required to teach primarily in units which are offered only at masters degree level or above.
Professional leadership
- Limited involvement in professional activity.
- An associate lecturer shall work with support and direction from academic staff classified at lecturer and above and with an increasing degree of autonomy as the academic gains in skill and experience.
Other
- Accountable for complying with health and safety policies, procedures, hazard reporting and safe work practices.
- Ensures staff and students work and study in an inclusive environment free from all forms of discrimination and harassment.
SELECTION CRITERIA
Appointees must demonstrate an ability to undertake the duties prescribed for the position and must possess the necessary skills required for the position.
To be appointed as an associate lecturer a candidate normally must meet the following selection criteria to the satisfaction of the selection panel and the authorising officer:
Qualifications
- Completion of four years tertiary study in the relevant discipline, for example an honours degree, an extended professional degree or a three year degree with an associated postgraduate diploma. In considering the suitability of applicants the selection panel shall have regard both to the level of qualifications and/or experience relevant for the appropriate discipline area and equivalent forms of accreditation or standing.
Academic and Professional Leadership
- evidence of demonstrated ability to undertake the following to university standard:
- prepare and present materials for undergraduate and graduate diploma level tutorials and other small group teaching including assessment
- develop materials for lectures (including On-line teaching) which are presented as part of a unit or subject area with appropriate guidance from the unit, subject area or course coordinator;
- supervise and mentor students working on assessment projects
- evidence of regular participation in administrative functions within a university or other organisation.
- evidence of regular participation in the affairs of relevant professional bodies and community groups and/or in professional practice and/or in development of continuing education programs for the profession;
- demonstrated commitment to participation in a program of activities designed to develop his/her scholarly, research and/or professional expertise relevant to the profession or discipline.
Teaching and Learning
- Demonstrated experience in, or potential for, effective teaching including ability to develop innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
- Capacity to teach current approaches to music production, presentation and distribution.
- Capacity to teach current and emerging approaches to enterprise in the music industry.
- Demonstrated understanding of social networks such as Myspace, Last fm, YouTube and Web 2.0 services and a capacity to teach how artists employ these in a professional context.
Research and Scholarship
- Potential to participate in or conduct research/scholarship.
- An emerging track record and demonstrated profile as a practitioner in the contemporary music field.
Other skills and attributes
- Ideally less than three years experience in an academic role.
- Strong links to the music industry.
- Knowledge of workplace health and safety principles which will enable the appointee to implement these principles at an appropriate level.
- Knowledge of equity and diversity principles which will enable the appointee to implement equal employment opportunity, equity and diversity principles at an everyday, operational level.
An applicant who does not meet one or more of the selection criteria, but who is considered by the selection panel to have the potential to do so within the period of normal probation (three years), or term of appointment may be appointed with the panel recommending participation in staff development during the probation period. In such cases the letter of offer of appointment shall state specific matters to which the staff development is to be directed.
HOW TO APPLY
Please provide:
- Application Cover Sheet (doc, 60kb or pdf, 17kb)
- Applicants are encouraged to systematically address the selection criteria.
- Your current resume – including academic qualifications and the names and contact details of professional referees and the period of notice you would need to give your current employer if offered the position.
- Applicants should include copies of teaching evaluations (if applicable) and list up to three of their best publications.
Forward your application to jobapplications@qut.edu.au quoting vacancy ref no. 28404 by 4 November 2008.
Prior to submitting your application please review information regarding immigration requirements, workplace health and safety, equal employment opportunity, non-smoking policy and relocation available at
http://www.hrd.qut.edu.au/jobs/information.jsp.
After the closing date, you can check the status of the recruitment process. QUT is an equal opportunity employer and employer of choice for women.