First Peoples Health Sciences Lead - Senior Lecturer (Identified)

Job Description

First Peoples Health Sciences Lead - Senior Lecturer (Identified)

• Employment Type: Full - time (35 hours a week)
• Duration: Continuing
• Remuneration: $155,403 base (+17% superannuation, leave loading)
• Location: Kensington campus, NSW (full time onsite required)
• UNSW offers up to 10 days paid culture leave annually for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff members
• Opportunity to work within a collaborative community, rather than in isolation

This position is open to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants only. UNSW considers that being Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander is a genuine occupational qualification under s 14 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW).

Blakcademy, Faculty of Medicine & Health

The Blakcademy is the Faculty of Medicine & Health’s First Peoples Academy, leading First Peoples education, student success, research, and community partnerships. Through self-determination, cultural capability, and anti-racism, the Blakcademy works to improve First Peoples health outcomes and ensure graduates are prepared to provide culturally safe and equitable healthcare.

The Opportunity

This position will be based in the Blakcademy, Faculty of Medicine & Health and plays a key role providing leadership and supporting the School of Health Science to implement the First Peoples Cultural Capabilities Health Curriculum into pharmacy, physiotherapy, exercise science, exercise physiology and dietetics & food innovation programs. The incumbent will be an emerging researcher, with the aim to advance their research profile with publications in peer reviewed journals, applications for competitive funding, higher degree student supervision, and contribution to academic administrative functions and leadership with the School of Health Sciences.

Key skills and experience required:

• This is an identified position, and applicants must be an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person. Confirmation of Aboriginality will be required.
• A PhD in a health or education related discipline, and/or relevant work experience, or the willingness to enrol/current enrolment in a relevant PhD.
• Proven commitment to proactively keeping up to date with discipline knowledge and developments.
• Demonstrated experience in teaching and learning design using a range of First Peoples pedagogical approaches, development and delivery of courses and programs, at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level.
• Experience of implementing educational technologies and online delivery methods.
• Evidence of teaching effectiveness and passion for educational excellence and fostering this in others.
• Demonstrated success in initiating curriculum development and improvement.
• Demonstrated experience with industry or work-integrated learning.
• Evidence of ability to support and inspire students from diverse backgrounds and support student equity diversity and inclusion initiatives.
• Demonstrated track record in research with outcomes of high quality and high impact with clear evidence of the desire and ability to continually achieve research excellence as well as the capacity for research leadership.
• Experience in successfully recruiting and supervising high calibre students.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team, collaborate across disciplines and build effective relationships.
• Evidence of highly developed interpersonal and organisational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to interact with the profession and industry and attract funding for learning and teaching initiatives.