Teaching Focused Academic

Teaching - Tertiary, Other (Education & Training)

Full time

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• Collaborative, innovative and supportive work environment
• Deliver high quality material to our undergraduate and postgraduate students
• The position is located at our City Tower Campus.

About Us: 

At Victoria University (VU), our aim is to be a global leader in dual-sector learning and research by 2028. Join us on the journey and help us achieve our strategic drives embedded in our Strategic Plan 2022-2028: Start well, finish brilliantly. One of the drivers “Thriving place to Study and Work” will enable us to continue to create places that our students and staff love to belong and feel immense pride.

About the Role:

The Teaching Focussed Academic is a teaching-intensive position primarily for transnational education (TNE). You will be expected to travel overseas to destinations such as China, India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. You will make a significant contribution to teaching, coordination and subject development at the Victoria University Business School (VUBS) and related degree programs with our international partners.

As a Teaching Focussed Academic (TNE) in Finance, you would bring a combination of professional and academic expertise to contribute to teaching, research, leadership and service within the Bachelor of Business and Master programs via VU’s Block Model of teaching, where students study one unit (subject) at a time in small interactive and collaborative class. Each semester is made up of four blocks, which each run for four weeks. The Bachelor of Business has a renewed focus on career readiness, employability/entrepreneurship, and industry immersion from the first unit and throughout the course, supported via real business experiences, guaranteed internships/placements, and learning environments designed to foster collaboration and problem solving.

This is a full time position at an Academic B classification salary range, $105,662 (per annum) - $125,473 (per annum) plus 17% superannuation. Working 36.75 (1.0 FTE) hours per week over a continuing contract period.

Duties:

An example of duties you may perform will include:

• Undertaking teaching and associated duties within Australia and overseas.
• Designing industry-relevant, innovative curricula and delivering high-quality and engaging classes.
• Providing support to the University's TNE Partnership office and relevant international partners.
• Identify, assess, prioritise and control risks to the health and safety of staff, students, visitors and contractors to the environment arising from the operation of the area under their responsibility, and ensure that a safe system of work is developed and followed through appropriate training, supervision and monitoring in line with the annual OH&S Plan.

About You:

You have a strong academic background, with a PhD in finance or related area, and or demonstrated teaching capacity at undergraduate and postgraduate level for, one or more of the following areas: finance/financial services, accounting and economics and have demonstrated an emerging research track record through relevant projects and publications. You will bring high-level communication, interpersonal and organisational skills with a commitment to the development of a collegial and supportive working environment and the ability to interact with students and staff with cross cultural sensitivity.

What We Offer:

For a position description and/or to apply for this position, please click here to be taken to ourVU Careers page.

Applications must be submitted as a single document comprising:

• Your responses to the selection criteria listed in the position description

Note: Applications which do not address the selection criteria will NOT be considered.

Applications close on Friday 21 June 2024 at 11:59pm (AEST). 

Who to Contact? 

For further information relating to the position, please contact Ranjith Ihalanayake, Head of VUBS on Ranjith.Ihalanayake@vu.edu.au for any questions about the role.

For further information relating to the application or recruitment process, please contact Helen Chong Gum, Recruiter by email at Helen.Chonggum@vu.edu.au .

Our Commitment to Protecting Country: 

Victoria University honours its deep diversity as a foundation for collaboration and social progress. We will demonstrate sensitivity in respecting First Nation perspectives. We will ensure that we respect our Indigenous voices and commit to sustainable Protecting Country. We will take leadership responsibility, in all that we do, to improve the health and wellbeing of our local and global communities, and the planet that we share. 

Victoria University is committed to inclusion, equity and diversity. VU encourages applications from women, gender diverse, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and individuals from under-represented backgrounds in this field.

Education, Training & Professional Development

Victoria University (VU) is the University of the West.

For more than 100 years, Victoria University (VU) has offered accessible education to students in Melbourne’s west and beyond.

We are one of Australia’s few dual-sector universities, with currently over 40,000 enrolled vocational and higher education students studying across our campuses.

Our moral purpose is to provide vocational and higher education that transforms the lives of students and the communities we serve. Our values are a living set of actions that underpin our moral purpose.

The VU Values are that we are always:

• shaping the future

This is the VU Way. We are always WEST.

At VU we believe diversity is a strength – the more diverse perspectives, identities, cultural backgrounds, ages and experience of our students and staff, the better our working environment, research and educational experience of our students.

With a culturally diverse population of students and staff from a wide range of backgrounds, we strive to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment where all students and staff are respected, valued and enabled to thrive.

Victoria University (VU) is the University of the West.

For more than 100 years, Victoria University (VU) has offered accessible education to students in Melbourne’s west and beyond.

We are one of Australia’s few dual-sector universities, with currently over 40,000 enrolled vocational and higher education students studying across our campuses.

Our moral purpose is to provide vocational and higher education that transforms the lives of students and the communities we serve. Our values are a living set of actions that underpin our moral purpose.

The VU Values are that we are always:

• shaping the future

This is the VU Way. We are always WEST.

At VU we believe diversity is a strength – the more diverse perspectives, identities, cultural backgrounds, ages and experience of our students and staff, the better our working environment, research and educational experience of our students.

With a culturally diverse population of students and staff from a wide range of backgrounds, we strive to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment where all students and staff are respected, valued and enabled to thrive.

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