(Tfa) Lecturer in Osteopathy

Work in a high performing and motivated team
- Deliver high quality material to our undergraduate students
- The position is located at our City Tower Campus.

**About Us**:
At Victoria University, 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 overall purpose of the position of Lecturer - Osteopathy is to make significant contributions to the teaching effort in the osteopathy discipline and to contribute to the College through academic relevant administrative activities. An academic at this level is also expected to play a role in scholarship and professional activities.

The position of Lecturer will design and teach units, including online and preparatory material, as well as convene units of study. The position of Lecturer - Osteopathy may be required to teach into both the undergraduate and postgraduate programs at the University.

An example of duties you may perform includes:

- Develop and facilitate learning activities online, face-to-face or in a blended capacity in units linked to the Osteopathy discipline;
- Participate in administrative duties and academic leadership such as Unit Convenor, attend discipline and college meetings and/or membership of committees.
- Independently prepare and deliver curriculum content, including unit coordination, marking, assessment and consultation with students.
- Engage in scholarly teaching practice, including the evaluation and continuing improvement of teaching practice.

**This is a part-time position Lecturer in Osteopathy (Teaching Focused Academic) at Teaching Focused Academic B, $101,598 - $120,647 classification plus 17% superannuation working 29.4 (.8 FTE) hours per week.**

**About the person**

The successful incumbent will be someone with energy who is innovative, progressive and collaborative in the way they work. They will be an excellent communicator who interacts well with others across the College and the University. The Lecturer - Osteopathy will contribute to the strength of the discipline of Osteopathy within the University by collaborating with staff across the First Year College and in the College of Sport, Health and Engineering in both teaching and research activities.

**Duties**

An example of duties you may perform includes:

- Develop and facilitate learning activities online, face-to-face or in a blended capacity in units linked to the Osteopathy discipline;
- Participate in administrative duties and academic leadership such as Unit Convenor, attend discipline and college meetings and/or membership of committees.
- Independently prepare and deliver curriculum content, including unit coordination, marking, assessment and consultation with students.
- Engage in scholarly teaching practice, including the evaluation and continuing improvement of teaching practice.

**Benefits**
- Salary sacrifice options
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible working arrangements available
- On-site gym and fitness centre and more

**What We Offer**:
**How to Apply**:

- A cover letter,
- Your curriculum vitae/resume,
- Your responses to the Key Selection Criteria listed in the Position Description Evidence of applicable qualifications, licences and registrations

**Applications close at 11:59pm on Tuesday the 20th of February 2024 (AEDT).
**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 (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:

- welcoming
- ethical
- shaping the future
- together.

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, rese