Trainer and Assessor

UQ Skills
- Plan for your future with a generous 17% superannuation allowance
- Broaden your career within one of QLD’s largest employers
- Belong to a vibrant community where your work genuinely makes an impact
- Based at
- Gatton
Campus

About UQ

As part of the UQ community, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world.

Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world. By supporting the academic endeavour across teaching, research, and the student life, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to activities that have a lasting impact on our community.

Join a community where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued and a range of

benefits and rewards

are available, such as:

- 26 weeks paid parental leave or 14 weeks paid primary caregiver leave
- 17% superannuation contributions
- 17.5% annual leave loading
- Access to flexible working arrangements including hybrid on site/WFH options, flexible start/finish times, purchased leave, and a condensed fortnight
- Health and wellness discounts - fitness passport access, free yearly flu vaccinations, discounted health insurance, and access to our Employee Assistance Program for staff and their immediate family
- Salary packaging options

About This Opportunity

The primary role is to act as a trainer and/or assessor within the UQ Skills, specialising in Agriculture and Rural Operations. Trainers and assessors may be required to work on and off the campus, resulting in some travel as required.

Key responsibilities will include:

- Assist and offer expert advice in the preparation of training and assessment process and tools.
- Take part in validation and moderation activities ensuring continuous improvement of training.
- Attendance in the classroom and/or training area before the commencement and after the completion of class. Ensuring rolls, induction paperwork, enrolment forms are completed prior to commencement and are dispersed to the appropriate staff once completed.
- Setting and/or following training plans and/or lesson plans for each class.
- Prepare tools and equipment prior to training and practical demonstrations.
- Track and maintain student results, attendance rates and progress in conjunction with the Training Officer and Training Manager. Assess and mark student work and assignments, providing feedback and managing reassessment as required.
- Ensure familiarity with courses, units of competency, training packages offered and respective training and lesson plans.
- Prepare Blackboard sites, lesson notes and training aids as required.
- Participate in the preparation of training and assessment resource development under direction of the Lead Assessor and Training Manager
- Ensure confidentiality and privacy of student work, assessment tools, answer guides and all associated documents.
- Follow all UQ Skills vocational policies and procedures together with the requirements of ASQA.

This is a full-time (100%), fixed-term position for up to 3 years.

At HEW level 5, the full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $74,378.89 - $82,842.92, plus a generous super allowance of up to 17%. The total FTE package will be up to $87,023.30 - $96,926.22 annually.

About You
- Industry qualification(s) within your respective area of expertise at least to level higher than the qualification you train and assess in (or a combination of extensive industry relevant experience and equal qualification to that involved in) with recent and relevant industry and vocational educational training experience.
- A CIV in Training and Assessment TAE40116 or TAE40110 with updates including TAELLN411 and TAEASS502 is required or higher qualifications in Adult and Vocational Education.
- The ability to influence and motivate others with the ability to present topical teaching material in a meaningful, stimulating manner.
- Sound knowledge and understanding of the OH&S requirements for specialist area being taught and current industry practice and regulations.
- Knowledge of Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) standards that relate to the quality aspects of learning, assessment and mapping of materials with the skills to comprehend and implement whilst training would be highly regarded.
- Demonstrated understanding of the University's risk assessment database and policies and procedures or the demonstrated ability to rapidly acquire such knowledge would be desirable.
- Demonstrated skills in implementing the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, or the ability to rapidly acquire such knowledge would be highly regarded.
- Experience using Learning Management Systems and Student Management Systems would be highly regarded.
- High level written and oral communication skills and organisational skills, including the ability to establish co-operative wo