Assistant Lecturer, Gender History

2 weeks ago


Parkville, Australia University of Melbourne Full time

**Job no**: 0062071
**Location**:Parkville
**Role type**:Part-time (0.5 FTE); Fixed-term (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025)
**Faculty**:Arts
**Department/School**:Historical and Philosophical Studies
**Salary**:Level A.8 - $108,906 p.a. (pro rata) plus 17% super
- **Contribute to the ongoing excellence of the History program at the University of Melbourne**:

- **Salary packaging, subsidised health and wellbeing services, fitness and cultural clubs, Myki discounts, and a 25% discount on graduate courses to our staff and their immediate families**

**About the Role**

As Teaching Specialist, the position will primarily coordinate two undergraduate classes in our history major: ‘HIST10017 Gender, Rights, and Power in History’ and ‘HIST20090 Gender in History, 1800 to the Present, collaborating closely with the Discipline Chair and colleagues.

In addition to teaching responsibilities, you may supervise 4th-year honours students, and contribute to the broader teaching and administrative activities within the discipline.

This position offers an opportunity to foster your own academic and professional growth within a collaborative and supportive environment, while contributing to the academic development of students.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Coordination and teaching of HIST10017 ‘Gender, Rights, and Power in History (Sem 2, 2024) and ‘Gender in History, 1800-Present)’ (Sem 1, 2025)
- Delivering lectures and conducting tutorials or seminars to a high standard
- Setting and marking assessment tasks where required
- Selection of, consultation with, and supervision of tutors or seminar assistants (where applicable) and providing written tutorial guidelines regarding teaching, marking, and directed consultations with students
- Supervision and examination of 4th-year honours theses

**Who We Are Looking For**
We are seeking a passionate educator, with a completed or near-completed PhD in History, specialising in women and gender history.

With a demonstrated ability to teach at undergraduate level, you are capable of ensuring a highly inclusive student learning environment for students, while also providing support to tutoring staff.

You have strong organisational skills as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including a demonstrated ability to work with people from diverse cultural backgrounds.

You will also have:

- A completed or near completed PhD in History with a focus on women and gender history
- A capacity to supervise 4th-year honours research
- Demonstrated strong record of undergraduate teaching experience, working positively and cooperatively with students, in a range of teaching delivery modes
- Capacity to teach gender history from a global and comparative perspective
- Experience in managing and supporting staff and fostering an effective teaching team
- Capacity to deal effectively and efficiently with administrative tasks relevant to both teaching and research
- Experience with using IT systems such as or comparable to the University of Melbourne’s Themis and the Learning Management System (LMS)

For further information regarding responsibilities and requirements, please refer to the attached PD.

**Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position**. This role requires current valid work rights for Australia.

**Your New Team - The School of Historical and Philosophical Studies (SHAPS)**
The School of Historical and Philosophical Studies (SHAPS) is a part of the Faculty of Arts and comprises of History, Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science, Classics and Archaeology, The Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation and The Program in Jewish Culture & Society. SHAPS offers a wide range of classes in these disciplines and has an Honours, Masters by Coursework and postgraduate student cohort.

**What We Offer You**
In addition, we offer the opportunity to be part of a vibrant community and enjoy a range of benefits, including generous leave provisions, salary packaging, health and well-being services and discounts on graduate courses. For more information, check out our benefits page

**About the University of Melbourne**
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