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Queensland University of Technology Hiring for Senior Language and Learning Educator Job at Brisbane Full Time
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- $118,652 to $124,297
- Ongoing, full-time
- Kelvin Grove
Who are we looking for?
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is seeking a Senior Language and Learning Educator to join Learning and Teaching Unit, Education Portfolio, Academic Division.
The Senior Language & Learning Educator will partner with a nominated Faculty, and will work collaboratively with the Senior STEM Educator and Senior Career Educator to develop and implement a faculty aligned student success strategy that addresses all aspects of student success. This includes career development and employability, retention initiatives, support for learning and student partnership and leadership development.
Real world impact
QUT is a major Australian university with a global outlook and a ‘real world’ focus. We are an ambitious and collaborative institution that seeks to equip our students and graduates with the skills they will need in an increasingly disrupted and challenged world.
About the Education Portfolio
At QUT we are transforming learning and teaching practices in line with our Real World Learning Vision, so that our graduates are highly skilled, enterprising, and well suited to 21st century employment and careers. We are committed to increasing the flexibility of our course offerings to enable our students and graduates to thrive in changing and complex working environments throughout their lives. Our focus is on student success, partnering with students to enhance the end-to-end learner journey, and designing and delivering high quality, flexible educational experiences that enable this.
The Education Portfolio encompasses:
- Curriculum Quality and Standards
- Learning and Teaching Unit
- Library
- QUT College
- QUT Entrepreneurship
- Student Ombudsman
QUT’s distinctive positioning as “the university for the real world” means a commitment to and investment in real-world work integrated learning, authentic assessment, a curriculum design studio approach for innovative curriculum and an increased focus on the optimisation of digital technologies to enhance on campus and online learning.
About the Learning and Teaching Unit
LTU is committed to a culture of collaboration, working in partnership with students, industry representatives, and staff across QUT to meet the evolving needs of our learners.
Guided by our Real World Learning Vision, LTU leads and coordinates learning and teaching across QUT, leveraging existing initiatives and enabling new ways of thinking and working that are learner-centric and future-focused.
The Student Success Group (SSG) works in partnership with Faculties, HiQ, Equity and Student Counselling, and other learning and personal support providers across the University (International Student Services, Student Engagement, Widening Participation, Student Business Services). The SSG aims to provide access to the highest quality of support for learning and careers and engagement services and strategies to empower students with the tools, connections, and mindsets to achieve their full academic potential and to design their real world futures.
What you need to succeed
To thrive in this role, you will be proactive and dependable, with a desire to make a positive impact on the experience of our students.
You will demonstrate:
- Education, training and/or experience equivalent to the completion of postgraduate qualifications or progress towards postgraduate qualifications in a discipline with a strong relevance to academic language and learning work with extensive experience in a field (e.g. TESOL qualification) related to English language and academic skills development.
- Demonstrated capacity to lead and supervise staff in a challenging environment and to respond flexibly to rapidly changing educational situations.
- Demonstrated professional leadership in using innovative pedagogical theory and practice and emerging technologies in the design, delivery and evaluation of inclusive language and learning development strategies and services that meet the needs of a diverse cohort of learners.
- Demonstrated understanding of the issues which affect adult career development, retention and success in higher education, as well as a commitment to working from a social justice framework.
- Demonstrated ability to foster mutually beneficially, inclusive and innovative partnerships to support student success.
- Demonstrated ability to realise value to students and stakeholders through strategic, critical insights, analysis and design of innovative solutions.
- Highly effective written, verbal and digital communication skills with the ability to conduct presentations and provide advice and development to stakeholders.