[What the role is]
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The job of an academic is challenging and meaningful. Not only will he/she has both the knowledge and working experience, he/she must also possess the ability to deconstruct the knowledge and experience, guiding students to reconstruct them as their own knowledge. He/she must also possess a passion for working with youths, nurturing them, and moulding their characters. There will be opportunities to develop the curriculum, introduce new courses as well as be involved in consultancy and other applied research projects. Administrative work related to teaching and School/Institutional strategic initiatives will be an important part of the job too. Successful candidates will be expected to be resourceful and innovative with initiative and good communication skills.
Software and Applications
The appointee must be competent to teach in at least three of the following subjects:
. Programming - Including a good understanding of programming language, their operations (e.g., memory allocation, garbage collection, polymorphism, etc), and the difference between various languages.
. Web application development - Including all of Website, Backend, and Database.
. Software Development Life Cycle - Including planning, collaboration, testing, deployment, and documentation.
. DevOps - Including configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, orchestrating containers, and setting up monitoring.
. Software Testing - Including correctness, UI automation, code quality, usability, and security.
Apart from the know-hows of the tools and processes, the lecturer should possess clear understanding of the end-to-end process of software development, facilitating students in the deconstruction and reconstruction of concepts, analysing the trade-offs, and explaining how different companies may adopt a slightly different configuration from another.
[What you will be working on]
- Conduct lessons, create teaching and assessment materials, and facilitate learning of students (youths and adult learners)
- Develop and maintain new/existing teaching curriculum. This includes regular review of existing curriculum and make recommendations on areas of improvements that would enhance students learning, performance and employability.
- Keep current and abreast of trends and developments of Software and Application Development.
- Support the School strategic initiatives through involvement in committee work and projects such as process improvement projects, development and management of new courses
[What we are looking for]
- Minimum 2 years of relevant work experience in Software/DevOps/Platform/Database engineering.
- Passionate about tinkering and hacking to gain understanding of the underlying mechanisms of things.
- Passionate about education and possess strong interest in guiding youths and adult learners in deconstructing and reconstructing knowledge.
- Self-driven, independent and possess readiness to work as a team.
Successful candidate will be offered a 2-year contract in the first instance.
Closing date: 10 December 2024
If you are shortlisted for the position(s), you should hear from us within 30 days of the closing date of the advertisement.
