Lecturer, Innovation Management

About Flinders

Our bold vision, captured in our Strategic Plan: making a Difference: The 2025 Agenda, is to be internationally recognised as a world leader in research, an innovator in contemporary education, and the source of Australia’s most enterprising graduates.

To realise this ambition, we recently made a significant organisation change to a six College structure with a professional staff and services alignment.

We recognise the key to our success is exceptional people and we’re seeking an outstanding individual to join the team of our transformed university.

Employment Type:

Continuing

Position Summary

Availability
Continuing | Full-Time
Compensation Grade
Academic Level B
Salary Range
$101,724 - $120,380 p.a.
Reporting to
Dean (People and Resources), or Delegate
College of Business, Government and Law
The College mission is to embrace innovative knowledge and practice to tackle the challenges of our time, with a strategic focus on technology, health, and social impact. Our mission defines our educational offerings, our research agenda, and our collaborations and partnerships.
The Lecturer will, under routine to general supervision, contribute to quality research and/or evaluation endeavours and the planning and delivery of topics within the suite of undergraduate and/or postgraduate topics/courses that address Innovation Management in the Business discipline in the College of Business, Government and Law. This includes the development of teaching materials, delivery of lectures/tutorials or other innovative teaching and learning strategies, examinations, and placement education.
The incumbent will contribute to strengthening existing Public and Private Sector relationships and will engage in multi-disciplinary teams undertaking industry, economic, and workforce research in response to major change.
The incumbent will work across the College’s Research Centres and Institute to engage in partnerships or explore new partnerships with external stakeholders that have the potential for providing improved teaching, learning and/or research outcomes for the University. The Lecturer will have strong knowledge and application of innovation (radical and incremental), creative thinking as well as problem-solving skills.
The incumbent will prioritise, coordinate, monitor workflow, and provide informal day‐to-day feedback to research support staff and casual academic teaching staff according to the University’s policies, practices, and standards.

Key Position Responsibilities

The Lecturer is accountable for:

• Promoting high-level teaching and research consistent with the College mission, Research Centres, and Institute.

• Contributing and/or having the ability to lead to the planning, delivery, and evaluation of lectures, tutorials, laboratory-based material, or other teaching strategies, including placement education for topics, primarily within the suite of undergraduate and/or postgraduate topics/courses and undertake topic coordination

• Delivering inspiring and innovative teaching informed by approaches that enhance the student experience and support students with academic and/or other challenges impeding their academic progress.

• Building effective research collaborations between the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute and the Business disciplines.

• Participating in and contributing to ethical, high quality, and innovative research and evaluation through activities such as scholarship, quality publication, external grant acquisition, and presentation that aligns with the College areas of research strength and focus and contribute to the supervision of student research programs.

• Actively participating in College internal and external quality assurance and accreditation processes.

• Actively participating in high performing multi-disciplinary teams with an education and research focus and contribute to the development of a respectful, trusting, and collaborative working environment.

• Developing and maintaining strategic relationships and networks with a range of stakeholders in the Public and Private Sector, for example the advanced manufacturing sector and Government, including industry and professional associations and organisations.

• Actively contribute to the integration and management of aspects of the academic and administrative life of the College.

• Some out of hours work (including weekends) as well as rural SA, interstate, and overseas travel, may be required.

• Any other responsibilities in line with the level of the position as assigned by the Supervisor and/or the University.

Key Position Capabilities

• Completion of a PhD in Business addressing aspects of the Innovation Management field.

• Sound track record and demonstrated evidence of successful relevant innovative teaching experience at tertiary level, including responsibility for topic coordination, course coordination, and curriculum design.

• Demonstrated experience and successful track record, relevant to opportunity, in the supervision of higher degree students to completion.

• Demonstrated deep engagement with Innovation Management with evidence of a strong research track record (for career stage) in an area aligned with research strengths in Innovation Management research, including evidence of high-quality publications and attraction of external competitive grants.

• Demonstrated understanding of the nexus between teaching and learning, research, and scholarship. The ability to lead knowledge in curriculum reviews and internal and external accreditation activities.

• Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills and interpersonal skills, including the demonstrated ability to establish effective relationships with staff, students, and industry nationally and/or internationally.

• Demonstrated experience and innovation using e-learning platforms for teaching purposes with excellent teaching evaluations.

• Strong working knowledge of the Public Sector evidenced in research addressing various aspects of Innovation Management. 

• Demonstrated evidence in enhancing success for students including developing and implementing initiatives to enhance their retention and facilitate their employability.

• Demonstrated effective cross-cultural communication skills, including the ability to liaise with and/or teach international students.

Prescribed Conditions for Employment

• Flinders University has introduced a COVID-19 Vaccination Policy that requires all new staff members to be up to date with their COVID-19 vaccinations, subject to medical exemptions. 

How to Apply

Please review the Key Position Capabilities of the Position Description and submit a Suitability Statement of no more than 3 pages addressing the criteria. Applications without a Suitability Statement may not be considered. For more information, please see our How To Apply page.

For more information regarding this position, please contact Associate Professor Vipul Pare .

Click here to view the Position Description.

Information for Applicants:

A valid National Police Certificate which is satisfactory to the University will also be required before the successful applicant can commence in this position.

We are seeking to increase the diversity to improve equal opportunity outcomes for employees, and therefore we encourage female applicants, people with a disability and/or from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders descent to apply.

Please note, late applications and applications sent via agencies will not be accepted.

Applications Close 11:59pm:

16 Nov 2022