Cisco Chair in Trusted Retail

QUT seeks an ambitious Senior Lecturer or
Associate Professor for the position of the
Cisco Chair in Trusted Retail. This newly
established Chair will be within QUT’s Faculty
of Business and Law’s School of Management
and embedded in the Centre for Future
Enterprise. At the nexus of industry and
academia, this Chair will explore exciting new
opportunities for how trust can be developed,
managed and leveraged within the retail sector,
particularly in light of emerging retail
technologies such as advanced communication
and networking, video analytics and data
The research will also cover organisations who
increasingly offer retail-like brokerage services
such as banks, insurance or higher education.

Overall, the Chair will contribute to the
professionalisation of trust and the
development of a well-defined trust
management discipline.

The Chair will also be integrated in Cisco’s
National Industry Innovation Network and
benefit from the global partnerships and
complementary capabilities offered by this
network. The Chair will be supported by the
Director of QUT’s Innovation Central Brisbane
in terms of industry engagement and
communication strategy.

This position reports to the Head of the School
of Management for supervision, workload
management and for Performance Planning
and Review (PPR) and will work closely with
the Director of the Centre for Future Enterprise.
In particular, the Chair will work closely with
CFE’s Signature Project Agile Trust. Post
- doctoral researchers and PhD students will be
made available to ensure the Chair can scale
the proposed research program and deliver the
desired impact.

**Key responsibilities include**:

- Academic Leadership _
- Lead and grow a team of academic staff

(post-doctoral fellows, higher degree
research students) and professional staff
- Design and manage a portfolio of real
- world-inspired research projects in the
domain of trusted retail and logistics
- Research and scholarship _
- Conduct research in the areas of trust

management, retail information systems
and innovation
- Publish papers in internationally leading

journals and conferences

research grant schemas of relevance
- Teaching performance and leadership _
- Foster excellence in learning and teaching- Prepare and deliver lectures and seminars
- to coursework and research students- Develop and deliver keynotes, seminars
- and workshops to the wider community- Supervise higher degree research

students
- External engagement _
- Develop and implement new engagement

models with external organisations from
the retail sector and beyond
- Work closely with representatives from

Cisco and further external partners as part
of the Chair’s governance
- Participate as Queensland representative

in Cisco’s National Innovation Network
working collaboratively with other state
- based and international Cisco funded
Chairs
- Participate in and provide leadership in

community affairs, particularly those
related to the portfolio of the Chair
- Create real-world impact, for example in

the form of validated design principles,
prototypes, normative recommendations
and policy advice
- Other _
- Be accountable for the development,

provision, promotion and evaluation of
systems of work, manage the work
environment, and provide appropriate
instruction, supervision and enforcement
leading to a safe and healthy workplace
- Complete required health and safety

induction and training (incl. general
evacuation instruction)
- Ensure that staff and students under the

control of the Chair complete the required
induction and training programs
To ensure job flexibility the successful
appointee may be required to:

- perform any other duties as nominated by

the university consistent with the relevant
classification descriptors detailed in the
Enterprise Agreement. Staff undertaking
any new duties will receive training;
- participate in job rotation or multiskilling in

consultation with their supervisor;
- work across campuses

Level C or Level D depending on their level of
attainment against the position classification
standards outlined in the QUT Enterprise
Agreement (Academic Staff). The position
classification standards provide the basis to
differentiate between the various levels of
appointment and define the broad relationships
between classifications. The University
reserves the right to appoint at any of these
classification levels. Please indicate within your

**Type of appointment**

This appointment will be a five-year
appointment.

**Location**

Gardens Point campus.

Selection Criteria

1. Completion of a doctoral qualification in the
relevant discipline area or equivalent
accreditation or standing.

2. Proven academic and administrative
leadership in a university or professional
setting.

3. Record of research/scholarship and of
leadership of research/scholarship relevant
to your career stage as evidenced by
publications of highest standards,
successful acquisition of research funds
and success