Discipline of Architecture
Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning
Reference no. 1282/0816

• Join a research intensive university with excellent industry links
• Work alongside internationally regarded colleagues
• Full-time continuing, remuneration package: $117K-$165K p.a. which includes salary, leave loading and up to 17% super

The University of Sydney is Australia's first university and has an outstanding global reputation for academic and research excellence. It employs over 7600 permanent staff, supporting over 60,000 students.

The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, from its foundation in 1918 as the first faculty of architecture in Australia, has been an internationally acknowledged centre for intellectual, scientific and aesthetic research in architecture and the built environment, which attracts the highest quality applicants in Australia.

The faculty is focused on the built environment and uses the methods of architecture, design, planning, science, art, engineering, IT, and social sciences to analyse, understand and design innovative environments. Our range of disciplines enables us to respond to the great and conflicting global challenges of our time – urbanisation and sustainability. The faculty was the first in the world to establish a Chair in Architectural Science. We also have one of Australia’s best university laboratory infrastructures for research and design in the built environment, including lighting, audio and acoustics labs, and the only IEQ (Indoor Environmental Quality) lab in the Southern Hemisphere. We have a major and ongoing investment in the Design Modelling and Fabricating lab, including architectural robotics.

We are seeking to appoint a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer with a record of research and teaching in urban and regional planning.

The appointee’s ambitions for their own work will be matched by their ambition to consolidate the faculty’s reputation as an international centre for urban and regional planning and policy research that makes a significant contribution to the field, and addresses real-world problems.

Your role in this position will be to:

• teach in the undergraduate urban and regional planning units of the new undergraduate degree, Bachelor of Architecture and Environments, as well as the faculty’s postgraduate programs. Teaching responsibilities will include the coordination and delivery in whole or part of selected core and elective units of study
• build research collaborations within the faculty, the University and beyond, publish in high quality international outlets and apply for research funding to develop your research area.

To be successful in this position you will need:

• a PhD in urban and regional planning, or a relevant field
• a record of successful translation of research outcomes (in urban and regional planning) into high impact, international, peer-reviewed publications in high quality outlets
• a demonstrated track record of articulating the application of your research outcomes to real-world problems and opportunities
• evidence of a record of applications for competitive grant funding and/or industry funding as an individual or as part of a team
• the capacity to attract high-quality PhD candidates, and to successfully supervise them through to timely completions
• experience in successfully teaching urban and regional planning to undergraduate and master’s-level students in a faculty of the built environment or related areas
• demonstrated ability to develop, coordinate, and evaluate teaching and learning
• the capacity to lead teaching and/or research teams.

Essential criteria for Senior Lecturer level (in addition to the above):

• demonstrated experience of leadership in teaching and learning
• experience and interest in developing opportunities for cross-disciplinary teaching and research collaborations across the diverse disciplines represented in this faculty
• success in winning grants in nationally-competitive research funding programs
• a track record of successful industry and non-industry-related research projects (this includes project management and administration).

Desirable for Senior Lecturer:

• a track record in reviewing for international journals and competitive grants
• a national/international profile in urban and regional planning.

All applications must be submitted via the University of Sydney careers website.  Visit sydney.edu.au/recruitment and search by the reference number for more information and to apply.

CLOSING DATE: 11:30pm 18 September 2016 (Sydney time)  

The University is an equal opportunity employer committed to equity, diversity and social inclusion. Applications from equity target groups, including women and people with disabilities are encouraged. As the University of Sydney has established a scheme to increase the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff employed across the institution, applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are also encouraged.

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