Lecturer in Spanish

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Work type:Full-time
Location:Melbourne - Burwood
Categories:Arts, Education

• Melbourne Burwood Campus
• Full-time and fixed term until 31 May 2024
• Level B $104,619 - $123,739 + 17% Superannuation

Founded in 1974, Deakin is a public university in Victoria with 61,000 students across five campuses: Melbourne Burwood, Geelong Waurn Ponds, Geelong Waterfront, Warrnambool, and the online Campus. We are a progressive and open-minded university, with the highest student satisfaction in Victoria and consistently ranked in the top 1% of the world’s universities. 

Working in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Lecturer in Spanish is required to teach students and develop high-quality teaching materials for the areas of Spanish and Latin American Studies. The Lecturer will use their previous scholarly learning and teaching of Undergraduate or Postgraduate programs to develop a learner-centric and research informed curriculum design. The Lecturer will lead teaching teams to adopt innovative teaching strategies to improve student success and engagement. This role involves contributing to discipline-based educational or pedagogy research projects to build teaching and learning capability in the area.

Your key responsibilities will include, and not limited to:

• Lead teaching teams to develop effective unit curricula and learning resources.
• Adopt new innovation in curriculum design at the unit level.
• Initiate, designs and conducts and may lead productive, high-quality research, scholarship and creative activities generating high impact outputs.
• Provide clear assessment criteria and timely feedback to learners to demonstrate learning outcomes.
• Assist in applying industry, clinical and/or research practice into student learning experiences and resources.
• Engage collaboratively to develop novel and high-quality research or creative activities.
• Support seeking funding for research and creative activities.
• Build national reputation, based on growing, focused body of work recognised for quality, excellence, and impact.
• Assist the implementation of local citizenship activities and contribute to effectiveness as influencer.
• Contribute to the implementation of specific aspects of University’s strategic agenda.
• Assist the implementation of community engagement activities.
• Contribute to the implementation of University’s community engagement agenda.

Key selection criteria for this role:

• A PhD in Spanish as a second language and/ or Spanish and Latin American Studies and/or other relevant qualifications and experience.
• Excellent record of scholarly learning and teaching in UG and/or PG programs, including innovative curriculum design.
• High level of digital literacy in the field of teaching and curriculum development in languages.
• Emerging reputation in research and scholarship through publications and/or exhibitions and/or success in obtaining external research funding.
• Ability to make a contribution to community engagement for research and teaching.
• Capacity to contribute to leadership of teaching, research and/or administration.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a proven ability to establish good working relationships with colleagues.
• Native or near-native competency and fluency in Spanish and English.

For a copy of the position description, please see below:

 PD Lecturer, Spanish.pdf

Applications for this position close on 26th March 2023

Successful applicants will need to comply with vaccination mandates imposed by the relevant state/territory government. Applicants who attend third-party sites to undertake University activities will also be required to comply with any other directions or requirements in place at the third-party location.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Working with Children Check (refer to Recruitment Procedure)

Please submit your updated resume, a short cover letter and responses to the Key Selection Criteria.

For a confidential discussion regarding this position, please contact Dr Ramon Lopez Castellano (Spanish program convener) on [email protected]   

Are You Ready?

Deakin is a Victorian university with a global impact. We are an agile, dynamic, and innovative university committed to making a positive impact through our excellence in education, research and innovation and the contributions we make to the wider community.

We understand that our reputation has been built on the dedication and expertise of our staff and we offer a dynamic and diverse working environment with opportunities to grow and develop careers. We believe that a progressive, thriving culture will ensure that people choose to come, and stay at Deakin and contribute to our ongoing success.

We value diversity and aim to build an inclusive environment that champions, embraces and respects differences. We support and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people of all abilities, cultures, sexual orientation, and genders.

We understand that our academic workforce is increasingly diverse, and we recognise academic careers may be placed on hold throughout many life circumstances. Achievement relative to opportunity places more emphasis on the quality, as opposed to the quantity of research outputs. In your application, we strongly encourage you to comment on your achievements relative to opportunity.

Advertised:21 Feb 2023 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close:26 Mar 2023 AUS Eastern Daylight Time