Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Digital Electronics

About the role

The School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications in the Faculty of Engineering at UNSW has an opportunity for a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer to join a teaching and research team. This role will contribute to enhancing the School’s capabilities in digital electronics, FPGA design and embedded systems, while supporting research advances across telecommunications, control systems, signal processing, energy systems and other emerging areas of electrical engineering.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to enhancing the School’s capabilities in digital electronics, FPGA design and embedded systems.
• Deliver high-quality teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate programs.
• Undertake research and scholarly activities that strengthen the School’s profile and contribute to high-impact outcomes in digital electronics systems.
• Collaborate across disciplines and engage with industry to shape future directions in digital electronics, FPGA design and embedded systems.

Requirements

• A PhD in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or a related discipline, along with relevant work experience.
• Proven commitment to proactively keeping up to date with discipline knowledge and developments.
• Demonstrated experience and evidence in teaching and learning design, development and/or delivery at undergraduate and/or postgraduate levels in the areas of digital electronics and embedded systems, as well as across the broad field of Electrical Engineering.
• Experience using and/or designing with educational technologies and online delivery methods.
• Evidence of teaching effectiveness and passion for educational excellence (e.g. relevant discipline-based curriculum design and development at a variety of levels and scales).
• Demonstrated knowledge of industry or experience of work-integrated learning (desirable).
• 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.
• An understanding of and commitment to UNSW’s aims, objectives and values in action, together with relevant policies and guidelines.
• Knowledge of health and safety responsibilities and commitment to attending relevant health and safety training.

Qualifications

• A PhD in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or a related discipline, along with relevant work experience.
• Proven commitment to proactively keeping up to date with discipline knowledge and developments.
• Demonstrated experience and evidence in teaching and learning design using a range of pedagogical approaches, development and delivery of courses and programs, at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level in the areas of digital electronics and embedded systems, as well as across the broad field of Electrical Engineering.
• 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.
• An understanding of and commitment to UNSW’s aims, objectives and values in action, together with relevant policies and guidelines.
• Knowledge of health and safety responsibilities and commitment to attending relevant health and safety training.

Skills

• Expertise in electrical/electronics engineering or a closely related field.
• Ability to contribute to high-quality teaching, research and scholarly activity in digital electronics, FPGA design and embedded systems.
• Commitment to advancing discipline knowledge while delivering engaging learning experiences across undergraduate and postgraduate electrical engineering programs.
• Experience using and/or designing with educational technologies and online delivery methods.
• Passion for educational excellence and fostering this in others.
• Experience in teaching and learning design, curriculum development and the use of educational technologies.
• Experience with industry or work-integrated learning.
• Ability to support and inspire students from diverse backgrounds and support student equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives.
• Track record in research with outcomes of high quality and high impact.
• Experience in recruiting and supervising high calibre students.
• Ability to work in a team, collaborate across disciplines and build effective relationships.
• Ability to interact with the profession and industry and attract funding for learning and teaching initiatives.

Benefits

• Salary: Lecturer (Level B) – AUD $133,065 to $156,864 per annum + 17% superannuation, Senior Lecturer (Level C) – AUD $161,619 to $185,422 per annum + 17% superannuation.
• Employment type: Full-time.
• Appointment type: Fixed term, 2-year convertible tenure track (Fixed-term appointment with the potential to convert to continuing employment, subject to a successful review.).
• Location: Kensington – Sydney, Australia.
• Reporting line: This role reports to the Head of School and has no direct reports.

Pay

Lecturer (Level B): AUD $133,065 to $156,864 per annum + 17% superannuation
Senior Lecturer (Level C): AUD $161,619 to $185,422 per annum + 17% superannuation

Schedule

Full-time.