Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Department of Information Systems and Analytics (GIFT City, Gandhinagar, India)
- Based at our Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) Campus in Gandhinagar, India
- Full-time and continuing
- An attractive remuneration package to be offered
Who are we?
Deakin is a cutting-edge Australian public university in Victoria, with 61,000 students across six campuses: Melbourne Burwood, Geelong Waurn Ponds, Geelong Waterfront, Warrnambool, GIFT City and our dynamic online Campus. We're proud to be a progressive and open-minded university, revolutionizing education and delivering one of the highest levels of student satisfaction in Australia. We are consistently ranked in the top 1% of the world's universities.
About Deakin’s GIFT City Campus
Deakin is the first University in the world to open an international teaching campus in India. The state-of-the-art campus will open in mid-2024 in the heart of the smart business district, GIFT City (Gujarat International Finance Tec- City) and will give students access to Deakin’s future-ready postgraduate courses aligned with local employment needs.
Deakin’s world-class course offerings on campus will initially include the Master of Cyber Security (Professional) and Master of Business Analytics, before expanding to other degrees from the faculties of Science, Engineering & Built Environment, and Business & Law. Teaching will be delivered primarily through face-to-face lectures and supplemented by digital platforms, with teaching being supported both onsite in GIFT and from Australia.
To support our teaching and research activities at the brand-new campus in GIFT City, we are looking for three highly motivated Lecturer/Senior Lecturer’s in Information Systems and Business Analytics.
As a level B Lecturer, you will:
- Assist in the integration of industry and research practice to inform unit/course design and teaching practices.
- Participate in teaching teams to develop courses and materials and collaborate to produce innovation in curriculum design that support diverse learners.
- Provide academic support to students within units.
- Contribute effectively to a culture of educational excellence and engage collaboratively with fellow academics within the teaching team, and update colleagues and students on developments in their subject area or specialisation.
- Initiate, design and conduct high-quality research activities generating high-impact outputs
- Widely communicate research outputs to discipline(s), other sectors and the community, nationally and internationally, ensuring impact in the field and the community translate into real-world impact.
- Build a national reputation, based on a growing, focused body of work recognised for quality, excellence and impact.
- Assist the implementation of local citizenship activities and contribute to effectiveness as an influencer.
As a level C Senior Lecturer, you will:
- Lead the integration of industry and research practice to inform unit/course design and teaching practices across the discipline within the Department.
- Lead teaching teams to develop courses and materials and innovation in curriculum design which influence teaching for the discipline or across multiple disciplines.
- Lead review of units and courses and implement refinements.
- Integrate creative and/or innovative teaching practices to improve student success and engagement.
- Make significant advances in knowledge within their specific fields/areas of teaching scholarship and pedagogical research activity.
- Lead growing, increasingly productive, high-quality research, and scholarship activities generating high-impact outputs.
- Engage in and increasingly develop and lead academic or other collaborations that enable novel and high-quality research activities.
- Attain sustained national and building international reputation as an emerging world leader, based on a significant and growing focused body of work, recognised for quality, excellence and impact.
- Demonstrate sustained and growing track record of timely delivery of outcomes for industry partners, with growing national recognition.
- Provide leadership and contribute to the development of the University’s community engagement agenda and community engagement activities.
Selection Criteria
To be successful for a Lecturer position you’ll have:
- PhD in Information Systems, Business Analytics, or a closely related discipline. PhD candidates who expect to submit their thesis by June 2024 are also encouraged to apply
- Emerging reputation in research and scholarship with evidence of an emerging program of research, peer-reviewed publications in leading journals, and a pipeline of research-in-progress which is targeting high-quality journals such as the FT50 list, ABDC A* journals, AIS Basket journals and the UTD journal list.
- Expertise in at least two of the following areas of research specialisation within the Department: information systems; business analytics; business analytics and decision-making; machine learning; digital innovation, transformation and disruption; digitally-enabled globalisation; digital entrepreneurship; IT and business value; digital health; artificial intelligence and the future of work.
- Expertise in at least three of the following areas of teaching focus within the Department: business analytics; information systems; artificial intelligence for business; digital transformation; machine learning; data science; cyber security; enterprise systems; project management.
- Experience in applying for competitive external research grants.
To be successful for a Senior Lecturer position you’ll have:
- PhD in Information Systems, Business Analytics, or a closely related discipline.
- Nationally and internationally recognised research reputation underpinned by publications in quality journals such as the FT50 list, ABDC A* journals, AIS Basket journals and the UTD journal list.
- Expertise in at least two of the following areas of research specialisation within the Department: information systems; business analytics; business analytics and decision-making; machine learning; digital innovation, transformation and disruption; digitally enabled globalisation; digital entrepreneurship; IT and business value; digital health; artificial intelligence and the future of work.
- Success in obtaining external research grants.
- Positive engagement with research, community, industry and government to enhance the national standing of the discipline.
Here's how to apply:
To be eligible to apply applicants must hold the right to work in India. This role is permanently based in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City.
Please submit your updated resume, a short cover letter and responses to the Key Selection Criteria in English. For a confidential discussion regarding this role, please contact Professor Rajeev Sharma, Head of Department Information Systems and Business Analytics on [email protected] .
Professor Rajeev Sharma will be available for a confidential discussion during the International Conference on Information Systems in Hyderabad, India from December 10 to 13. To schedule a meeting with Professor Sharma at the Conference, please email him directly on [email protected] .
For a copy of the position description, please click here:
GIFT Position Description - Level B - DISBA - Sept 2023.pdf GIFT Position Description - Level C - DISBA - Sept 2023.pdf
Applications for this position close on 14 January 2024.
Are You Ready?
Deakin is an Australian 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.
Advertised:01 Dec 2023 India Standard Time
Applications close:14 Jan 2024 India Standard Time