Lecturer / Senior Lecturer – Exercise and Sport Science

Reports to

Associate Professor Peter Sinclair Head of Discipline Exercise and Sport Science Faculty of Health Sciences

Organisational area

Exercise and Sport Science Faculty of Health Sciences

Position summary

We are in a period of exciting and significant investment in our Faculty of Health Science and in order to deliver on the University’s ambitious strategic plan, we are looking for Lecturer or Senior Lecturer to join The ’s, Discipline of Exercise Sports Science team. We are seeking to appoint a highly-motivated professional with a strong vision for the profession and the evolving role of the Exercise Science profession. You will join an established and highly-skilled teaching team and make a substantial contribution to the continued success of our well-funded research. The successful candidate will have a strong background in Exercise Physiology applied to the Exercise and Sport Science profession; but may come from any sub-discipline in that field. Areas of expertise that would be particularly valued by the discipline are the development of high-performance athletes, athlete talent identification, management of cardiovascular or musculoskeletal conditions, and cardiovascular physiology with an exercise emphasis. While this advertisement is not specific to a particular sub-discipline, the selection process will consider how applicants would complement the faculty’s existing teaching and research programs. Reporting into the Head of Discipline of Exercise and Sport Science, this position is offered as continuing full time (preferred) however part time at a minimum of 0.6FTE may be considered for the right candidate. This position is located at the Faculty of Health Sciences initially at the Lidcombe Campus before moving to Camperdown Campus in 2021.

Location

Initially Cumberland/Lidcombe Campus before moving to the Camperdown Campus in 2021

Type of appointment

Full-time, continuing (part time at a minimum of 0.6FTE may be considered for the right candidate)

Salary

Remuneration package, $104k-147k pro rata p.a which includes leave loading and up to 17% superannuation

How to apply

All applications must be submitted online via the University of Sydney careers website. Visit sydney.edu.au/recruitment and search by reference number 855/0519 for more information and to apply.

About the University of Sydney

The University of Sydney is a leading, comprehensive Our campuses research and teaching university. We are committed to harnessing the transformative power of education to Located close to the heart of Australia’s largest and most foster greater knowledge and a better understanding of international city, our Camperdown/Darlington Campus the world and its people. features a mixture of iconic Gothic-revival buildings and state of-the-art teaching, research and student support facilities. We are highly influential in shaping Australia’s national The University also has an extensive footprint throughout and international agenda and delivering solutions to the Sydney. Some faculties are based in Camperdown/ challenges facing society. We achieve this through critical Darlington but have facilities elsewhere. For example, analysis, intellectual leadership and active contribution to Veterinary Science and Agriculture & Environment have public debate. farms and research units at the Camden Campus, while the Faculty of Medicine and Health has clinical schools in Our primary objective is to create and sustain a university hospitals across the city and in rural NSW with very close in which, for the benefit of both Australia and the wider cooperative links and affiliations with a range of independent world, the brightest researchers and the most promising medical research institutes. students, whatever their social or cultural background, Other faculties and schools have their own dedicated can thrive and realise their full potential. campuses, such as the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in This central purpose underpins our strategic goals. It the central city, in Surry Hills and challenges us to develop and support a community of Westmead, Health Sciences at Lidcombe, and Sydney scholars, where interdisciplinary research can flourish and Nursing School at Mallett Street, Camperdown. where the student experience is enriched. Our researchers and students have access to excellent library resources. These will soon be enhanced by a range To learn more about our strategic objectives, including of new technology-enabled learning environments, thanks to how we developed those goals and our progress towards a project currently underway on the Camperdown/Darlington achieving them, visit sydney.edu.au/strategy/about Campus.

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The University of Sydney is recognised as one of the best universities in the world, with a breadth and depth of disciplinary excellent unequalled by any other Australian university.

Careers website: sydney.edu.au/recruitment Our research, all of which is ranked at world standard or above (ERA 2015), is driven by the big picture and aims to Home page: sydney.edu.au solve the most important problems and the most exciting Organisational structure: sydney.edu.au/about-us/ new challenges facing society. governance-and-structure/organisational-structure

The University of Sydney invests in research excellence. Annual Report: sydney.edu.au/about-us/ Initiatives that contribute to outstanding research vision-and-values/annual-report outcomes are key to our University strategy and are News: sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news being supported by an unprecedented investment in our research activities. Statistical snapshot 2017

For more information about our research and its impact, visit sydney.edu.au/research Enrolments, total 67,790

Our teaching Enrolments, international 24,844

The University of Sydney attracts highly talented Staff (full-time equivalent) 8307.4 undergraduate and postgraduate students, drawn by our Faculties and University schools 12 comprehensive range of quality degrees and a strong track record for postgraduate research programs. Research centres and institutes 90

Student:Staff ratio 16:1 Our students study alongside top researchers and, in some cases, contribute to their research. We expect them ARC Centres of Excellence 11 to excel and challenge them to succeed as leaders in Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) 13 whatever career field they choose. HERDC researchincome (2016) $331.55 million

Sporting clubs 40+

Clubs and societies 200+

Benefits of working here

At the University of Sydney, we attract the most vibrant thinkers to form a community dedicated to the pursuit of transformative education and research.

Achieve your ambitions

If you want to engage with brilliant minds, are willing to push boundaries, and believe in making a positive difference, you’ve come to the right place. Our people come from all cultures and backgrounds and enjoy a true sense of community and belonging.

We recognise that our talented staff are invaluable and we support them to achieve their career ambitions. Using our outstanding local and global networks, we can offer flexibility, responsibility, personal and professional development, and much more.

We reward our staff

We welcome open minds, curiosity, and a readiness to tackle big questions – and we reward it accordingly. Our people are part of an exciting environment where development is encouraged and intellectual pursuits foster a sense of purpose and confidence.

In addition to a competitive base salary, we offer a wide variety of financial and non- financial benefits to our staff.

These include: − working arrangements which assist staff in managing their work and personal/family responsibilities and provide flexibility in meeting business needs. − family-friendly working hours − generous leave entitlements − a University contribution of up to 17% of base salary to your superannuation (pension) fund after 12 months of service − opportunities for tax-efficient salary packaging, including motor vehicles, laptops and additional personal contributions to your superannuation fund − a variety of training and development opportunities − exceptional health and wellbeing services, including sports and fitness centres, medical clinics and free counselling via the Employee Assistance Program − University Parents Network which offers support to parents throughout the University − on-campus parking and convenient transport services − contribution to professional membership fees − an entirely free Staff Benefits Program providing online and retail discounts across an extensive range of goods and services − access to the cultural life on campus which includes our museums and art galleries; music and theatre at the Conservatorium of Music and ; and Sydney Ideas which is the University’s premier public lecture series program that aims to bring some of Sydney’s, Australia’s, and the world’s leading thinkers to the wider Sydney community.

Join our community and we’ll help fulfil your career ambitions and transform your life. About the Faculty of Medici ne and Health

The University of Sydney established a new Faculty of These initiatives include: Medicine and Health in April 2018 by uniting the existing – The redevelopment of the site to Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Midwifery and form one of Australia’s largest multidisciplinary clinical Pharmacy, and Faculty of Health Sciences by 2020. When service and health research and education campuses. fully established, it will be one of the largest health and This will encompass Westmead Hospital (including medical research and teaching enterprises in the Southern its Dental Hospital), the Westmead Clinical School, Hemisphere, and it will comprise seven academic schools the Westmead Children’s Hospital and the Children’s and ten clinical schools. Hospital Clinical School, and the Sydney Dental School,

as well as the Westmead Medical Research Institute The academic schools are: and the Children’s Medical Research Institute. – Sydney Dental School – The development of the Health Precinct on the western – Sydney School of Health Sciences edge of the University’s Camperdown campus. This – will allow the schools of Nursing, Health Sciences, and components of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry to be – School of Medical Sciences co-located in a major new research and teaching centre. – – Sydney Dental School

– Sydney School of Public Health Sydney Dental School is ranked amongst the top dental schools internationally, and is one of the largest dental Seven of the ten clinical schools in Australia. It has campuses in the Sydney Dental schools are in metropolitan Hospital (in inner-eastern Sydney) and the Westmead Sydney, and three are in Centre for Oral Health at Westmead Hospital (in western rural NSW (at Dubbo and Sydney), and outreach service-based teaching is Orange, in the State’s central undertaken across the state of NSW. west; Broken Hill in the far west; and Lismore, in the The school’s mission is to “put the mouth into health”, Northern Rivers district integrating oral and systemic health. This is achieved by of northern NSW). One of specific research and educational programs and by the clinical schools – the strengthening partnerships across the public, private, Northern Clinical School – is corporate and other sectors. co-located with the Kolling Institute. The school offers a four-year graduate-entry Doctor of

Dental Medicine program and a three-year Bachelor of Oral The Faculty of Medicine Health program. It also offers a comprehensive range of & Health will be one of the largest health and medical postgraduate and continuing education programs designed to research and educational enterprises in the Southern train specialist practitioners across a wide range of Hemisphere. It will have a budget of approximately disciplines Its undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate $620 million and a total student enrolment of approximately programs attract large numbers of international applicants. It 13,500, including 1,920 research students, has a rigorous research training program to produce research 6,055 postgraduate coursework students and 5,600 scholars of international standing. undergraduate students.

The school also has vigorous research program, and Major initiatives within the University and in partnerships collaborates international universities in China, France, across the health system provide exciting opportunities to Japan, Thailand and the USA. Higher-degree research exploit the inter-professional and inter-disciplinary training is a priority. collaborations that will form in the new faculty.

About the Faculty of Medicine and Health

Sydney School of Health Sciences – Westmead Clinical School (from January 2020) – Rural Clinical School (Dubbo/Orange)

– Rural Clinical School (Broken Hill) The School of Health Sciences is ranked 2nd in the world for – Rural Clinical School (Northern Rivers) sport, physical therapy and rehabilitation (QS subject rankings 2018). The academics are world leaders in health The clinical schools have an extensive research program sciences research and education. which ranges from the molecular basis of disease to clinical

medicine and public health. Research is focused on six The school has more than 4300 enrolments in six allied major themes – cancer; infectious diseases and health professions. The school’s researchers are global immunology; neurosciences and mental health; obesity, leaders in ageing, disability, exercise, physical and mental diabetes and cardiovascular disease; healthy ageing; and health and wellbeing, cancer diagnosis and survivorship, reproductive, maternal and child health. rehabilitation, speech and communication disorders, and arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions. School of Medical Sciences

The school is focused on some of the major challenges confronting the Australian health care system including those The School of Medical Sciences encompasses the disciplines groups living in rural and remote areas, people of Aboriginal of anatomy and histology, physiology, pathology, and and Torres Strait Islander descent, people who are socially pharmacology. and financially disadvantaged, and people with disabilities. Its educational programs provide teaching for students in

The school aims to graduate health professionals who are Sydney School of Health Sciences, Sydney Medical School, outstanding clinicians, who are leaders in health, and who Sydney Dental School, Sydney Pharmacy School, and the have an international perspective. Their graduates are Faculty of Science. Courses are delivered in the Doctor of preferentially employed and are ready for the new health Medicine and postgraduate medical programs, the Doctor of era. They include CEOs of Commonwealth authorities Medical Dentistry, and the Bachelor of Pharmacy. In the and hospitals, founders and directors of leading NGOs, Faculty of Science, the school delivers the Bachelor of government officials and presidents of professional Medical Science program as well as many discipline-based associations. The school has a network of over 28,000 courses in the Bachelor of Science program. highly engaged alumni from across the globe. The School of Medical Sciences is one of the most research-

intensive Schools in the University of Sydney, with a broad- Sydney Medical School

ranging research agenda and extensive collaborations in

Australia and internationally. Sydney Medical School, ranked as 15th in the world (QS subject), has a proud 165-year history, and it is the oldest medical school in Australia, having been formed in Sydney Nursing School

the 1850s. It accommodates 1,200 medical students Sydney Nursing School is highly ranked in Australia and internationally undertaking a four-year graduate-entry Doctor of as a major academic centre of research and education in nursing Medicine program, more than 1,300 postgraduate students and midwifery. undertaking a wide range of master’s degree, graduate diploma and graduate certificate courses, and almost 1,400 The School’s major research themes are cancer, chronic students undertaking higher-degree research. disease and ageing, infection and immunity, injury and acute

illness, and mental health. The research emphasises a Sydney Medical School organises its teaching and research collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to achieving around seven metropolitan clinical schools and three rural excellence in health and health care. clinical schools:

Enrolments comprise approximately 1,200 undergraduate, – Central Clinical School and 700 postgraduate coursework students, and 75 higher- – Children’s Hospital Westmead Clinical School degree research students. The school is committed to inter-professional learning and collaborative practice, and – Concord Clinical School its courses reflect the changing needs of health care. – Nepean Clinical School – Northern Clinical School – Sydney Adventist Hospital Clinical School

About the Faculty of Medicine and Health

Sydney Pharmacy School

Academic pharmacy in the University of Sydney began almost 120 years ago. In 2018, approximately 1,400 students were enrolled in pharmacy courses including the Bachelor of Pharmacy, Bachelor of Pharmacy and Management, Master of Pharmacy, and Graduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice programs.

With over 100 higher degree research students, the school has the largest postgraduate pharmacy research program in Australia. Strong research collaborations have been developed across the University of Sydney and its affiliated teaching hospitals and research institutes, and with the pharmaceutical industry.

Major research themes comprise cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, respiratory disease and mental health, as well as health services and patient safety. The research program brings together a broad range of pharmaceutical and clinical sciences, including drug development, formulation and delivery; health services research; and research on patient-centered pharmacy.

Sydney School of Public Health

The School of Public Health is Australia’s first established and leading school of public health with a community of academics, educators, staff, research groups and centres that offer a wide range of education and research opportunities for students. Today the school has more than 300 staff and over 1000 students.

The school’s vision is for a global community where everyone’s needs for good health and wellbeing are met. This vision extends to those with the greatest need, who would benefit most from improved health and reduced inequalities. The school actualises this position by providing high quality, accessible education, conducting outstanding, high impact research and working in partnership to translate knowledge into policy, action and innovation.

Our staff have an outstanding reputation for high quality teaching and research. Our academics are leaders in their field - in areas like tobacco control, chronic disease prevention, healthy ageing, infectious disease, population health metrics and physical activity. They are working with leading institutions such as the World Health Organisation, Gates Foundation, and Australian government at the local, state and federal level to bring the benefits of public health policy and practice to the people who need it most.