Nexus Fellow, Nexus Program

**Job no**: 517046

**Work type**: full time

**Location**: Sydney, NSW

**Categories**: Senior Lecturer, Lecturer

**Nexus Fellow
- School of Banking & Finance**
- Employment Type: Full Time 35 hours per week
- Duration: 3 years fixed term
- Remuneration: Academic Level B ($112,679 onwards + 17% super)
- Location: UNSW Campus, Kensington

**About UNSW & Nexus Program**:
UNSW isn't like other places you've worked. Yes, we're a large organisation with a diverse and talented community; a community doing extraordinary things. Together, we are driven to be thoughtful, practical, and purposeful in all we do. Taking this combined approach is what makes our work matter. It's the reason we're one of the top 50 universities in the world and a member of Australia's prestigious Group of Eight. If you want a career where you can thrive, be challenged, and do meaningful work, you're in the right place.

The Nexus Program will provide a critical missing link between organisational units at UNSW, connecting faculties to each other and to the PVCESE to develop and implement co-ordinated solutions to challenges in education and student experience. Through the recruitment of education-related staff distributed throughout UNSW's Sydney and Canberra-based schools, Nexus Program will provide the Schools and Faculties with extra capacity to enable widespread implementation of educational initiatives. Additionally, it will provide a mechanism for teaching academics to contribute to and provide feedback on centrally developed education programs.

**Why Your Role Matters**:
Nexus Fellows are education focused academic staff dedicated to educational excellence and student experience at UNSW. Those who are appointed to this prestigious role will be expected to lead and influence colleagues to successfully drive educational excellence and adoption of new educational practices at the university through collaboration with the Pro Vice Chancellor Education & Student Experience portfolio.

This role will focus on playing a central role in supporting the School of Banking & Finance. UNSW School of Banking and Finance is Australia's top ranked finance school in research and among the top five in the Asia-Pacific region. The School offers a diverse range of courses in the fields of Finance, including Banking, Corporate Finance, Investment Management, International Finance, Financial Analysis, Risk Management, and Insurance. The School maintains close ties with industry, both locally and internationally, and aims to cultivate an enthusiastic and exciting research and teaching culture.

The Nexus Fellow will report to the Head of School with a dotted line to the Faculty Deputy/Associate Dean Education.

**Responsibilities**:

- Contribute to colleagues' professional development in pedagogy, educational technology, emerging teaching practices and scholarly approaches to teaching through faculty and UNSW programs & initiatives.
- Demonstrate leadership and positively influence educational culture and community in the School and Faculty
- Collaborate with colleagues to implement new institution-wide initiatives that seek to improve learning & teaching.
- Collaborate with other Education Focused Fellows - Nexus Program in the faculty to lead the development of local solutions to current educational challenges.
- Contribute to the operation of the UNSW Education Co-op by providing advice and guidance to colleagues from across the university (approximately one day per month).
- Convene up to one course per year, conduct classes, assess student learning achievements, and support students in postgraduate and undergraduate courses in line with UNSW policy.

**You will have**:

- A PhD in a related discipline with relevant work experience
- Evidence of highly developed interpersonal and organizational skills, including the ability to influence others and drive change.
- Demonstrated experience in teaching and learning design, development, and delivery at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level.
- Experience using and/or designing with educational technologies and online delivery methods.
- Evidence of teaching effectiveness and passion for educational excellence (e.g., relevant discipline-based curriculum design and development at a variety of levels and scales)

**Benefits and Culture**:
People are at the core of everything we do. We recognise it is the contributions of our staff who make UNSW one of the best universities in Australia and the world.

Our benefits include:

- Hybrid working options
- Career development opportunities
- 17% Superannuation contributions and additional leave loading payments
- Additional 3 days of leave over Christmas period
- Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness)

**How to Apply**:
Make each day matter with a meaningful career at UNSW.

Upload your CV and include a cover letter addressing the selection criteria as shown in the position description.

**Applications close: Sunday 23**rd*