Postdoctoral Research Fellow - [Archived Advertisement]

• Faculty of Health, Arts and Design

• Academic Level B: $81,290 - $96,435 plus 17% superannuation

• Part-time (0.6), fixed-term position until September 2018 based at the Hawthorn campus

This role has been advertised in accordance with the salary bands from our current 2009 enterprise agreement. For more information about the salary and conditions that apply to this role, please refer to the following page; http://www.swinburne.edu.au/about/jobs/salaries-conditions/

In recent years, Swinburne has progressed to become one of the world’s leading universities, ranking as one of the top 400 universities in the world, as assessed by the Academic Ranking of World Universities, and one of the top 75 in the world in physics.

A Postdoctoral Research Fellow is required to work on a 3 year research project Carbon reductions from composting food waste for food production – fitting recycling models to urban forms’. The successful applicant will work within a multi-disciplinary research team and be responsible for the day-to-day project management, carrying out fieldwork for the project, participation in the production of written outputs and coordination of team meetings and events.

Skills and Experience

To be successful in this role you will need to demonstrate the following: • A PhD (completed or under examination) in Sociology or a related discipline • Current Australian driver’s licence • An excellent track record in social research, • The capacity to complete advanced writing and analysis tasks

A full list of the selection criteria is available in the position description

Benefits 

As a Swinburne staff member you will have access to many benefits and opportunities including salary packaging options, Employee Assistance Program as well as discounts on private health insurance, newspaper subscriptions, movie tickets, transport, computers and software

To find out more about the extensive benefits offered to Swinburne employees please visit: http://www.swinburne.edu.au/about/jobs/why-work-at-swinburne/ 

How to apply

Swinburne is an Employer of Choice of Gender Equality 2014 as recognised by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency. Swinburne encourages applications from Indigenous people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with disabilities, women and men.

To start an application click on 'begin' at the bottom of the page and submit a resume, cover letter and response to the Key Selection Criteria, as listed in the Position Description.

Please do not email or send paper applications, all applications must be submitted online

For further information, please contact Dr Vivienne Waller on +61 3 9214 5752 or email vwaller@swin.edu.au

If you are experiencing technical difficulties submitting your application, please contact the Recruitment team on +61 3 9214 8600 (option 2).

Refer to position number: 31542

Applications close: 5pm on Wednesday 2 September 2015