Lecturer: Mathematical Sciences

Based in UniSA STEM at the Mawson Lakes campus
- Part-time (0.7 FTE), two year (2) fixed term contract
- Commencement Salary: Level A $77,390 pro rata/Level B $109,074 pro rata per annum (plus 17% superannuation)

**About the Role**

Level A / Level B

This Teaching Academic position is primarily focused on the delivery of teaching and associated administrative duties within the undergraduate and/or postgraduate programs in Mathematical Sciences. It will work with guidance and direction from other academic staff and undertake duties with increasing autonomy as the staff member gains skills and experience. This position utilises contemporary professional/discipline-related knowledge in their teaching practice, and carries out activities to develop scholarly expertise.

**About UniSA**

The University of South Australia is Australia’s University of Enterprise. Our culture of innovation is anchored around global and national links to academic, research and industry partners. Our graduates are the new urban professionals, global citizens at ease with the world and ready to create and respond to change. Our research is inventive and adventurous and we create new knowledge that is central to global economic and social prosperity.

UniSA STEM links engineering, mathematics, science, defence and cybersecurity, environmental science, aviation, information technology, construction and project management, harnessing the connections across disciplines to bring big ideas to fruition. Our researchers are solution focused and collaborative to deliver technical expertise and advice to industry, government and community groups to make commercially viable and sustainable impacts. We integrate research into our teaching, with students working alongside researchers in first-class facilities, what’s discovered one day is taught the next. Our graduates are entrepreneurs and trailblazers, who design and build the world they want to live in. UniSA STEM also incorporates leading edge research organisations; the Future Industries Institute, the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments and the Centre for Industrial Artificial Intelligence (AI).

**Core Responsibilities**

Level A / Level B
- Under direction, prepare and conduct learning activities including lectures, tutorials, assessment and provide timely feedback to students
- Implement innovative teaching approaches (including face-to-face, online and blended learning) to promote student learning
- Deliver high quality teaching as demonstrated by a range of University approved data sources (e.g. student outcomes, student feedback, peer reviews etc.)
- Ensure teaching is informed by relevant research and industry practice in the discipline area
- Undertake administrative duties relative to teaching activities of identified courses and programs, including the development of course and program material and coordination of a course, if required, with guidance
- Provide quality feedback to students via approved assessment tasks

**Essential Skills and Experience**

Level A
- Ability to undertake a range of teaching duties including the preparation of appropriate teaching activities and resources in mathematics
- High-level communication skills including demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate with team members, external parties and colleagues
- Ability to use the necessary digital techniques required for excellent curriculum delivery
- Knowledge and understanding of a range of contemporary teaching methodologies
- High-level administrative and organisational skills.
- Empathy for students of a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds
- Demonstrated commitment to teaching through continual development and improving performance

Level B
- Demonstrated ability and experience in teaching, including design and preparation of teaching activities and resources, for both service and discipline-specific teaching in the Mathematical Sciences
- Demonstrated ability to undertake research in one or more of the following areas that contribute to UniSA’s research strengths and strategic directions: applied statistics, applied optimisation, classical applied mathematical modelling
- High-level communication skills including demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate with team members, colleagues, and external parties
- Understanding of and experience in using a range of contemporary teaching methodologies, including digital technique where appropriate
- High-level administrative and organisational skills.
- Empathy for students of a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds
- Demonstrated commitment to teaching through continual development and improving performance.
- An established record of scholarship, relative to experience

**Benefits**

Getting a great job working with the best is just the start. UniSA rewards its staff with a wide variety of benefits such as:

- Access to great personal development opportunities
- Generous superannuation contri