Associate Lecturer

2 years Fixed Term Full-Time from commencement
- $101,369 - $108,683 (ALA) + 17% Superannuation
- Bentley Campus WA

**Reference Number**: 950928

**About the Role**:
The School of Design & Built Environment is looking for an Associate Lecturer for a teaching-focused academic role. The main responsibility would be to support the delivery and management of the **Masters of Environment and Climate Emergency** program.

The position requires collaboration with more senior academic staff, with the expectation that the incumbent will continuously develop their teaching expertise and contribute to the ongoing improvement of educational quality.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Provide high-quality teaching and learning and support for student learning.
- Demonstrate a commitment to improvement and innovation in teaching and participate in the communication and dissemination of teaching practice within the discipline.
- Determine students' learning needs and provide appropriate teaching and learning support to demonstrate the intended learning outcomes.
- Integrate scholarship research and professional practice in teaching to support learning and online delivery.
- Conduct online, distributed, or face-to-face learning activities as appropriate, which stimulate and foster student learning.
- Participate in outreach activities related to teaching and learning
- Assess and provide feedback on learning to students.
- Undertake administrative functions connected to units taught.
- Contribute to curriculum innovation and design to develop students learning.
- Collaborate with course team members to ensure coherent curriculum design and delivery to support learning.
- Participate in team teaching within an established program as required.
- Design and plan learning resources and materials.
- Undertake professional development, including peer review in higher education teaching, and maintain currency in discipline theory and practice.

**Role Requirements**:

- As this is a fixed-term contract, you will require current work rights in Australia that match the tenure of this role.
- A PhD in a relevant field (e.g. sustainability strategy, policy, leadership, education or planning; circular economy; climate action; net-zero urban and regional development; environment and society; community action for climate or sustainability; sustainable behaviour change etc.)
- Demonstrated ability to teach effectively and a commitment to reflective improvement in teaching delivery.
- An understanding of pedagogical theory and contemporary educational practice relevant to the discipline.
- Demonstrated willingness and ability to contribute to scholarship in teaching through participation in teaching and learning strategies and professional development in higher education teaching.
- Demonstrated ability to contribute to curriculum review and renewal.
- Demonstrated 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.

**About Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute (CUSP)**

**About the School of Design and Built Environment (DBE)**
Collaborative, transdisciplinary, and interdisciplinary teaching and research contribute to vibrant and diverse practice communities within the School of Design and Built Environment (DBE). Our strengths lie in exploring and innovating ‘just’ sustainability across human and more-than-human environments through lenses of design, policy, and practice. DBE is the only School of its kind in Australia, with an extraordinary mix of disciplines yielding impactful real-world results.

**What We Offer You**:
Situated on Whadjuk Nyungar Country, our vibrant Bentley campus includes an art gallery, gym, childcare and medical centre, bus station, accessible parking and endless food options including a supermarket. Aside from the vibrant campus life, we offer more than just a job. Curtin offers a wide range of generous benefits, including additional leave, salary packaging, health and wellbeing services and an array of discounts for retail, travel and much more. For more information, check out our benefits page

**Join Us**
**If this sounds like your next role, please click APPLY NOW ensuring to attach the following documents**:

- Updated Resume
- Cover Letter outlining your interest and experience - maximum two pages

**Applications close: Monday 24th of February 2025**
- Curtin reserves the right at its sole discretion to withdraw from the recruitment process, not to make an appointment, or to appoint by invitation, at any time. We reserve the right to remove the advert earlier than the date on the advert._