Lecturer in Crop Science (Horticulture) Lecturer in Crop Science (Horticulture)

School: Environmental and Rural Science

Faculty: Science, Agriculture, Business and Law

Position Number: 0000014581

Employment Type: Continuing

Location: Armidale NSW

Reports to: Head of School ERS

Salary Range: $ 98,564 to $ 116,814 per annum (Level B) plus 17% employer superannuation.

Visa Requirements: Applicants must have on-going full-time work rights (UNE will not provide sponsorship for this position)

Additional Information: To discuss this opportunity, please contact Associate Professor Chris Guppy, Convenor, Agronomy and Soil Science, phone +61 2 6773 3567, email [email protected]

University of New England The School The University of New England (UNE), Armidale is a Environmental and Rural Science (ERS) is a research- regionally based, globally networked university that intensive School that attracts outside and internal is renowned for the quality of its student experience competitive funding to support research at the and the excellence of its research specialisations. UNE leading edge of agricultural, ecological and biological pioneered teaching to external students making it the research nationally and internationally. The School most experienced provider of distance and innovative spans seven disciplines: Agronomy and Soil Science, online education. Currently there are over 26,000 Animal Science, Botany, Earth Sciences, Ecosystem students (84% of whom are distance/online students) Management, Genetics and Zoology. and approximately 1,200 academic and general staff. The UNE decadal strategic plan 2021-2030, Future Fit, About the Role has been developed to guide the University to deliver As a Lecturer in Crop Science (Horticulture) you on its enduring vision to support the aspirations of will contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate individuals in communities, and communities within coursework teaching, and higher degree research regions, in a digital age. student supervision in the Agronomy and Soil Science Future Fit 2021 - 2030 discipline. You will be actively publishing high-quality and high-impact research and will engage with external The Faculty stakeholders to attract research funding to further the University’s research strengths in the area of sustainable The Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law plant production and horticultural science with a focus (SABL) is an innovative collaboration of scientists, on controlled environments. You will be required to researchers, and academics designed to deliver maintain scholarly, research and professional activities outstanding education and practical learning. The relevant to the discipline in support of UNE’s published Faculty consists of over 700 staff and postgraduate plans and priorities and to perform administrative duties students with international reach and active industry and service, outreach and engagement roles appropriate collaborations with partners across Asia, the Indo- to the level and expertise of the appointment. Pacific and Africa. Teaching and learning in Agriculture, Environmental Science, Biomedical Science, Science Teaching duties will include the delivery and ongoing and Technology, Economics, Business and Law enable development of coursework materials aimed at unique opportunities to build both deep domain- undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students specific and broad trans-disciplinary knowledge; in both online and on-campus delivery modes, consolidate real-world experience with higher- covering aspects of crop management and horticultural education skills, and extend undergraduate expertise production, including in controlled environments, as with globally recognised discipline mastery that well as more general agronomy and plant science accelerates careers and demonstrates value in an topics. You will also be required to attract and supervise ever-changing world. The Faculty’s vision, mission Honours, postgraduate coursework and higher degree and aspirations are outlined in the Faculty of Science, research students and build a student research group Agriculture, Business and Law Strategic Plan 2019-2025 for which you act as primary supervisor. Key Responsibilities How you will be assessed for the role Teaching and Supervision The UNE Core Capability Framework describes six 1. Conduct lectures, tutorials, practical classes, core capabilities for all staff at UNE. Your merit will be student field excursions and intensive schools assessed based on the demonstration of all or most of the following UNE core capabilities. 2. Design and develop subject material for online and on-campus delivery in keeping with discipline and • Shapes and Supports Strategy industry directions • Leads and is Open to Change 3. Act as unit coordinator and manage units and • Acts with Courage and Integrity student engagement through the learning • Delivers and Achieves Results management system (currently Moodle) • Develops and Maintains Relationships 4. Provide high quality instruction and support to coursework undergraduate and postgraduate • Communicates with Influence students You will also need to exhibit the knowledge, educational 5. Conduct marking and assessment requirements, skills and experience attributes required for the position. 6. Supervise research projects of Honours, special topic, coursework Masters and higher degree research (HDR) students To Apply Your application should be comprised of: Research and Scholarship 1-2 page cover letter outlining who you are, your 7. Undertake and publish independent research of high 1. strengths and qualifications, and why you are quality, impact and engagement interested in the role at UNE; 8. Collaborate with national and international A current resume containing details of 3 referees. At colleagues, including industry partners 2. least 1 referee should have a thorough knowledge of 9. Apply for competitive external funding, including your work over the past 2 years as your manager or category 1 funding (e.g. Australian Research Council, supervisor; agricultural research and development corporations 3. Responses to the selection criteria below explaining and industry) how you best meet these requirements. Your Academic Leadership/Service examples should be based on previous 10. Liaise effectively with internal and external networks performance/experience and you should clearly to foster collaboration, innovation and a positive explain your level of involvement in the example culture activity, what you have done, how, why, with whom and what the outcomes were. 11. Engage with disciplinary and professional communities to establish beneficial partnerships and take an active role in the School and discipline to enhance progress towards stated objectives 12. Participate in outreach and engagement activities

Note: It is not the intention of the position statement to limit the scope or accountabilities of the position but to highlight the key responsibilities of the position. The responsibilities listed above may be altered in accordance with the changing requirements of the role. Selection Criteria*

Knowledge & 1. PhD in plant science, preferably in horticultural crop management (physiology Education and/or nutrition and/or pathology) or controlled environment cropping or relevant discipline

Occupation Specific 2. Demonstrated experience in tertiary level teaching and student research supervision relevant to plant science, including evidence of a commitment to best-practice teaching and a willingness to adopt new teaching methods in response to student needs in both on-campus and online modes. 3. Demonstrated research capacity, including a record of recent, high-impact publications relevant to plant science, and evidence of success in applying for and obtaining external competitive research funding

Core Capabilities relevant to the Role

Shapes and supports 4. Demonstrated innovative approach to industry and cross-institutional strategy collaboration to maximise the quality, impact and engagement of strategically Develops and aligned research. maintains relationships 5. Excellent interpersonal and engagement skills with demonstrated ability to Communicates with perform effectively within a team and develop beneficial internal and external influence professional relationships

Acts with courage and 6. Demonstrated ability to manage self and take responsibility for achieving integrity collective outcomes, team welfare and a positive culture. Delivers and achieves 7. Demonstrated ability to recognise, manage and overcome challenges in a results collaborative and inclusive environment Leads and is open to change

Desirable Criteria 8. Experience in horticultural crop management or controlled environment cropping 9. Experience in the delivery of tertiary level teaching to distance students via online teaching 10. Experience or training in leadership, people management and supporting staff and students Core Capabilities

Leading Others (ACAD-B – ACAD-D, HEO8-HEO10)

Shapes and Acts with Develops and Leads and is Delivers and Communicates Supports Courage and Maintains Open to Change Achieves Results with Influence Strategy Integrity Relationships

Shapes and Leads change Acts in the best Delivers intended Establishes Considers drives long term and models interests of the results achieving rapport with differing views of strategies in behaviour University and excellence diverse groups others and works Definition response to the that embraces takes personal in outcomes and harnesses constructively to changing nature innovation and responsibility for for students, the talents of build common of the University continuous achievement of staff and other others. ground. academic and improvement. outcomes. stakeholders. business context.

Articulates a clear Champions the Models honest Develops plans Builds productive Adapts to diverse direction and need and benefits and ethical aligned to the relationships and audiences and sense of purpose of the change behaviour and areas objectives networks. communicates aligned to the to inspire the gains trust and and assigns information University’s vision. engagement of respect. responsibility. Works clearly. others. collaboratively Converts School/ Confronts Sets and with others Communicates Directorate Adapts to problems and communicates acknowledging skillfully with priorities into an evolving addresses priorities different views. stakeholders operational and changing issues placing and defines across levels and activities environment. the University’s performance Delegates tasks functions. and required interests first. standards and and provides outcomes. Explores new timeframes. guidance and Presents a ideas with an Presents support bringing persuasive

Behaviours Gathers open mind. unpopular Tracks progress out the best in argument information from decisions in a against planned people. and promotes a range of sources Supports others constructive outcomes. ideas to senior and assesses the to transition to manner. Provides clear management. implications for new ways of Actively performance own area. working. Demonstrates overcomes standards and Listens to persistence obstacles to opportunities to different points of Shows an Adapts work area when faced achieving planned develop. view and works understanding plans to realise with setbacks outcomes. constructively of the University the benefits of and focusses Seeks clarity Promotes and and respectfully environment change. on achieving when direction maintains a safe to find common and adapts plans outcomes. and requirements and healthy work ground. to changing are unclear. environment circumstances. Takes Encourages and responsibility for Makes decisions acknowledges own behaviour in a timely team members and demonstrates manner and contributions. awareness of maintains own strengths progress towards and areas for established development. outcomes.

Embraces diversity and supports an inclusive environment. About UNE

The University of New England UNE has been a leader in flexible learning in Australia since 1955. It was one of the first Australian universities Values to offer degrees by correspondence, and today, with more than 21,000 external students, is one of Australia’s Formative providing a study and work major providers of external awards. Unlike many environment that encourages institutions, supporting all students including those intellectual and personal remote from our Armidale campus is part of our DNA and our ability to provide personal and quality distance development, flexibility in terms learning and on-campus experiences is evidenced of attitude, knowledge and skills. in our student satisfaction results and is key to our success. Respectful encouraging respect for our Originally named New England University College, UNE students, staff and partners was established as a college of the University of Sydney and celebrating diversity. in 1938. It was the second university established in New South Wales and Australia’s first regional university. In Inclusive providing an academic and 1954 the University became fully independent as the work environment that is University of New England and pioneered teaching by correspondence to external students. accessible to, and engaged with The University has consistently maintained a five-star the communities we serve. rating for Overall Student Satisfaction for the past 15 Flexible promoting a culture that is years, as published in the Good Universities Guide, and has enjoyed considerable success with Australian responsive to change and Awards for University Teaching, winning 46 awards the needs and expectations since 2006. of all stakeholders. Our values, Madgwick’s legacy The first vice-chancellor of UNE, Sir Robert Madgwick, Innovative promoting a culture that was a most remarkable man. His personal mission — develops and incorporates to help ordinary people respond to a rapidly changing creative approaches to world — remains at the core of what drives the University of New England. Sir Robert Madgwick knew academic and administrative intrinsically that education is critical to helping people service delivery across all adapt to workplaces and change. Education as key areas of the University. to empowerment is a theme that runs throughout his career. Madgwick was a true champion of distance education for the purpose of empowering society — so everyone has the opportunity to adapt to the challenges of a changing world. The UNE Campus SportUNE UNE is proud to have some of the best sports facilities The University of New England is located on several of any university in Australia. Students and staff have sites in Armidale. The main northern campus of the the use of a heated indoor swimming pool, gym, University is 5 kilometres to the northwest of the city international standard basketball stadium, rugby fields centre, in an attractive rural and bushland setting of and indoor climbing wall. Archery, indoor soccer, 260 hectares. Part of this campus includes the original netball, rugby union and underwater hockey are just a property presented by the late Mr T. R. Forster to few of the organised sports which students and staff can the University of Sydney for the establishment of a play at UNE. University College. This property comprised the old homestead, ‘Booloominbah’ – now the administrative Shopping and Services centre of the University and the site of the Vice- UNE has a newsagent, hair salon and gift shop on Chancellor’s office together with several other buildings campus. Other services include a post office, cafeteria, and 74 hectares of land. Located nearby on this campus café and licensed restaurant, and new and second-hand is a magnificent residence “Trevenna” where the Vice- bookshops. Chancellor resides. Take a tour of the Armidale campus here UNE has one of the largest residential systems of any ... university in Australia. Students choose from eight residences, ranging from fully catered colleges to independent on-campus accommodation. The colleges are more than just places to eat and sleep, they provide  academic support, opportunities to participate in social, cultural and sporting activities, and the chance to build networks that last a lifetime. The University also possesses a number of rural properties in close proximity to the campus, providing facilities for teaching and research. Excellence at UNE

Five-star rating in QILT Survey for students’ OVERALL overall quality of educational experience for EXPERIENCE 15 years in a row right through to 2020.

No #1 in Australia in International Student Barometer (ISB) Survey in the Propensity to Recommend UNE TEACHING as a place to study to family and friends. QUALITY

Consistently producing leading world-class research, with top five-star rating (‘Well Above World Standard’) by the

ARC’s 2018 ERA assessment for 15 specific research fields, STUDENT mostly within the broad fields of agricultural & veterinary SUPPORT sciences, environmental sciences, and mathematical sciences. Also high ratings for education and health fields.

Consistently leveraging research strengths and technological GRADUATE SALARY expertise (eg UNE SMART Farm) to support longstanding research partnerships with key national institutions, including CSIRO, ABARES, federal and state departments of agriculture and environment, and agricultural R&D corporations.

FIRST GENERATION Expanding strategic long-term research and teaching partnerships with targeted overseas institutions, especially in the Indo-Pacific region, aimed at building research collaboration, staff exchanges and student recruitment.

FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT Continuing in particular to expand UNE’s agriculture- related research partnerships, including via numerous joint projects in the Indo-Pacific with ACIAR (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research), with GRADUATE clear benefits for agricultural productivity growth both in SALARY Australia and for our developing country neighbours.

University of New England CRICOS Provider Number 00003G About Armidale

Armidale Lifestyle Armidale is located in NSW roughly halfway between Sydney and Brisbane on the New England Highway. The city has a population of about 24,000. The climate is mild, with warm summers, glorious springs and crisp winters bringing occasional snowfalls; in autumn the city turns crimson and gold.

The central business district has a cosmopolitan flavour, Darwin with pedestrian malls, cafés, markets, regular cultural events and festivals. Shopping centres, museums, parks, restaurants and a cinema are just a short walk or bus ride away. With a high level of business activity including in the CBD, a growing education sector, and a strong rural economy, employment in Armidale is quite strong. A strong element of growth in Armidale’s population is due to professional or business people with Brisbane school-aged children choosing a location with cultural Perth Armidale vibrancy, superior educational facilities, a strong New England Highway

sporting culture and a healthy outdoors lifestyle. Perth Adelaide Sydney ➚ UNE Sydney Campus Canberra Some of Australia’s most spectacular gorge country Parramatta

can be found in the nearby national parks, which Melbourne provide superb walking opportunities. The beach is two and a half hours away at Coffs Harbour.

Hobart Armidale Airport has numerous daily flights to and from Sydney and Brisbane. Train and bus services also travel to the major cities.

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