About the Role:

Join the Curtin School of Population Health as a Lecturer (or Associate Lecturer) in Nutritional Physiology within our Nutrition and Dietetics discipline. This full-time (1.0 FTE), three-year contract position is ideal for someone who excels in nutritional physiology or pathophysiology and who is deeply committed to delivering academic excellence in teaching and research at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

The successful candidate will play a key role in curriculum design and development, ensuring a high-quality learning experience for our students. We're looking for an inspirational educator who can create an engaging learning environment while contributing to impactful research in nutrition and dietetics.

The ideal applicant will hold a doctoral qualification or have significant progression towards obtaining one related to nutritional physiology or pathophysiology. A strong knowledge of the subject area, along with a commitment to innovation and research, is essential to guide and motivate the next generation of nutrition science professionals in this field.

Your responsibilities will be (but are not limited to):

In Teaching

• Delivering high-quality instruction, fostering student learning through scholarly-informed methods, assessing student work, and contributing to curriculum design.

In Research

• Build research capability to conduct competitive and a high-quality nutrition research and/or scholarship of learning and teaching program. Seek funding as a co or chief investigator.
• Share findings through publications, seminars, and conferences.
• Provide supervision to postgraduate research students.

In Service and Leadership:

• Build collaborations with external stakeholders to establish and maintain industry links to advance the nutrition discipline.
• Promoting collegiality, engaging with the community, and maintaining high professional standards to create a supportive work environment.

Selection Criteria – who we are looking for:

1. Progress towards, or completion of a doctoral qualification in nutritional physiology or relevant discipline.
2. A strong understanding of pedagogical theory and contemporary educational practice relevant to the discipline.
3. Demonstrated experience in implementing effective and innovative teaching that promotes student learning.
4. An emerging record of contribution to scholarship in teaching of nutritional physiology and/or pathophysiology.
5. Demonstrated experience/capacity to undertake unit coordination.
6. Demonstrated high-level communication, interpersonal, and organisational skills. A commitment to the development of a collegial and supportive working environment and the ability to interact with students and staff with cross-cultural sensitivity.
7. Demonstrated commitment to the application of relevant and applicable policies, procedures and legislation in the day-to-day performance and functions of this position.
8. Commitment to applying relevant policies and procedures in daily responsibilities.
9. Demonstrated competency in a range of qualitative and quantitative research tasks (e.g. recruitment, data collection, data analysis and reporting).
10. Research outputs in high-quality academic journals, evidence of a growing national profile, HDR student supervision and contribution to research initiatives.

Role Requirements:

• As this is a fixed-term contract, you will require current work rights in Australia that match the tenure of this role.
• Successful applicants are subject to a National Police Clearance, and background, integrity, and reference checks to Curtin’s satisfaction.

*Please note that each candidate will be assessed based on their skills, qualifications, and experience to determine the salary level. Candidate’s experience will also determine Teaching & Research or Teaching Academic category.

About Curtin University

We are an energetic, dedicated team of academics and professionals working together to provide global solutions through quality graduates and innovative research. Curtin is a welcoming space where integrity, respect for one another, courage, excellence, and impact are essential to everyday life. First Nations people, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, parents, carers, people of all ages, abilities and genders, and people of diverse ethnicity, nationality and faith are encouraged to apply. Our aim is to create a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community in which we live. For more information, please visit our Diversity and Inclusion page - https://staff.curtin.edu.au/discover-curtin/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-at-curtin/

What We Offer You:

Situated on Whadjuk Nyungar Country, our vibrant Bentley campus includes an art gallery, gym, childcare and medical centre, bus station, accessible parking and endless food options including a supermarket. Aside from the vibrant campus life, we offer more than just a job. Curtin offers a wide range of generous benefits, including additional leave, salary packaging, health and wellbeing services and an array of discounts for retail, travel and much more. For more information, check out our benefits page!

For more reasons to work at Curtin, please visit https://staff.curtin.edu.au/discover-curtin/

Join Us!

If this sounds like your next role, please click APPLY NOW ensuring to attach the following documents:

• Updated Resume
• Cover Letter outlining your interest and addressing the selection criteria for the role.

If you have any queries in relation to this opportunity or the application process, please contact our careers team on [email protected] or 08 9266 9000 (option 3,1), quoting the reference number. Please note applications will not be accepted via this email address.

Applications close: Thursday, 13th November 2025.

Disclaimer: Please note that there is no standardised time for the closing of adverts on the specified date. Therefore, we recommend submitting your application ahead of this deadline. Late applications will not be considered, and only successful candidates will be contacted.

Please note we are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies at this time.

Curtin reserves the right at its sole discretion to withdraw from the recruitment process, not to make an appointment, or to appoint by invitation, at any time. We reserve the right to remove the advert earlier than the date on the advert.