Prepares and delivers lectures, and conducts tutorials, seminars and laboratory sessions; prepares and marks essays, assignments and examinations; advises students on academic and related matters; attends departmental and faculty meetings, conferences and seminars; supervises work programmes of postgraduate and honours students and tutorial staff; participates in setting course and degree requirements, curriculum revision and academic planning; serves on council, senate, faculty and other committees and professorial boards; conducts research and undertakes consultancies in a particular field of knowledge; stimulates and guides class discussions; compiles bibliographies of specialised materials for reading assignments.

• Works indoors in offices, lecture theatres, laboratories, studios, tutorial rooms in outdoor environments or via electronic learning media and distance education mediums.
• Occasionally work outdoors to teach educational programmes for some subjects.
• Works in adequately lit, heated, ventilated and clean, well maintained workspaces that are set-up to provide appropriate facilities for the subjects being taught.

• Sedentary to light work, frequently sits in offices, teaching rooms and meeting rooms interacting with teaching, ancillary staff and students at desks and computers to research, prepare teaching resources and mark assignments.
• Frequently to constantly stands and walks inside and outside. The requirement for lifting, carrying or pulling, and bending, squatting or crouching is not significant. Stretching and twisting requirements are not significant.
• Occasional contact with skin irritants or water may be required (subject dependant). If it is then protective equipment will be worn.
• Occasional to frequent repetitive hand and finger movements are required when using computers and writing.
• Occasional driving of cars may be required if teaching across multiple campuses or when supervising fieldtrips. However, driving is not a significant component of the job.
• There is frequent use of office and teaching equipment including whiteboards, overhead projectors, videos, computers, and a wide array of equipment specific to teaching area(s).
• Mental skills necessary include a high level of cognitive functioning with subject knowledge, teaching, presentation, research, organisational, administrative, assessment, evaluation, record-keeping, computing, communication, interpersonal, problem solving and decision-making skills.

• To work as a university lecturer/tutor study towards or completion of a Master’s degree, or a Doctorate is required, along with experience in research and teaching. Having published some research is also an advantage (ANZSCO Skill Level 1).
• To lecture at a polytechnic or institute of technology a minimum of a national diploma and experience in the subject to be taught is required.
• Registration and a current Practising Certificate may also be required.

There are opportunities for flexibility of movement.