Lecturer in Composition
Job No.: 674242
Location: Clayton campus
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: Continuing appointment
Remuneration: $114,951 - $136,505 pa Level B (plus 17% employer superannuation)
- Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University
- Collaborate globally with world-class music technologies
- Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them
The Opportunity
The Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance at Monash University is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified Lecturer to contribute to teaching and research in the field. The School aims to shape social change for more just, sustainable and richer futures through music performance, composition and technology, popular music , and research and scholarship. The School supports artistic research alongside other more traditional research endeavours and has a focus on Australian music.
This position requires an experienced composer with an international profile to contribute to quality teaching of Composition through unit coordination and project supervision at major honours or postgraduate level. The successful appointee will coordinate units, prepare and present lectures and/or seminars, tutorials, undertake marking, contribute to curriculum development, and supervise and examine Honours and HDR students. In this role, the Lecturer in Composition will focus on acoustic and/or electronic music creation and will have a familiarity with music technology and popular culture. The units in which they will be involved will be negotiated on appointment and will change over time.
The successful candidates will hold a PhD in the discipline area and show capacity to contribute strongly to research development in composition and music technology at Monash.
About Monash University
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We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.
Together with our commitment to academic freedom, you will have access to quality research facilities, infrastructure, world-class teaching spaces, and international collaboration opportunities.
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Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.
To Apply
For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs'. Your application must address the Key Selection Criteria.
Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr-recruitment@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.
Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.
Enquiries: Professor Margaret S. Barrett, Distinguished Professor and Head of School, Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance, +61 3 9905 6910
Position Description: Lecturer - Composition
Applications Close: Tuesday 11 March 2025, 11:55pm AEDT
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