Technical Officer: Teaching and Learning Support (HEO 5)

• Open to Australian Aboriginal Peoples and UniSA employees only
• Full-time, continuing position based in the UniSA STEM Unit at the Mawson Lakes campus
• Commencement Salary: $76,304 per annum (plus 17% superannuation)

About the Role 

This position will contribute to STEM’s initiative in the development and uplift of digital learning content and technologies across STEM programs. The position will promote the knowledge and skills that underpin best practice in digital learning through the use of immersive and interactive digital platforms and will provide need-based support for the digital content migration needs of An De College.
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 

• Use immersive visualisation technologies to design, develop and deliver engaging digital content and experiential learning exercises for UniSA STEM teaching programs and courses. This includes, using flexible, immersive, interactive and online platforms sensitive to the needs of learners from a wide range of educational, social and cultural backgrounds
• Support academic staff with public open days and outreach programs to showcase and promote the Project Live technology suite
• Research and implement the most appropriate educational technologies compatible with offshore student cohorts to improve the quality of An De College course delivery,
• Provide advice and support to academic staff developing digital content for An De College courses, and at-elbow technical assistance for troubleshooting during course delivery
• Induct and demonstrate the safe use of identified plant and equipment, and establish Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Risk Assessments (RAs) for best practice

• A tertiary qualification or equivalent professional/industry experience in digital media, design and/or content creation and demonstration including virtual and augmented reality
• Demonstrated experience and understanding of educational technologies and learning management systems in a blended environment (online and in person)
• Demonstrated ability to independently or under minimal supervision use complex software tools to design, develop and publish digital content that engages diverse cohorts of learners within a higher education context
• High-level problem-solving, administrative and organisational skills
• High-level written and verbal communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to work effectively and collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders that include staff, students and external parties with diverse backgrounds

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 contributions of 17% 
• A range of salary packaging options, including vehicle leasing, laptops and car parking fees 
• Various on-site services available at our campuses which may include on-site gym membership 
• A variety of leave arrangements

For a copy of the position description and to apply, please visit Working at UniSA.  Applicants are required to upload a cover letter and resume only.
Please address your cover letter to Sara Heidrich, Consultant: Recruitment Central.  For further information about the position or the recruitment process, please contact UniSA Recruitment Central on +61 8 8302 1700 or via email at [email protected] using job reference number 5881. 

Applications close: 11.30pm Tuesday 5 March 2024

To be eligible to apply for internal positions, you must either identify as an Australian Aboriginal Person, or be a current UniSA continuing, fixed-term or casual staff member at the time the position is advertised and have the legal right to work in Australia for the term of the appointment.

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