Prepares and conducts tutorials, seminars and laboratory sessions; marks essays, assignments and examinations; advises students on academic and related matters; attends departmental and faculty meetings, conferences and seminars; serves on committees and boards; conducts research; stimulates and guides class discussions; compiles bibliographies of specialised materials for reading assignments.

• Works indoors in offices, lecture theatres, laboratories, studios, tutorial rooms and occasionally in outdoor environments or via electronic learning media and distance education mediums within universities.
• Occasionally works outdoors to teach educational programmes for some subjects, such as geology.
• 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 around teaching spaces, from room to room and from building to building. May also stand and walk around outdoor teaching spaces in some settings.
• The requirement for lifting, carrying or pulling is not significant.
• Bending, squatting or crouching is generally not required.
• 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 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.