Scholarly Teaching Fellow. An STF will be allocated up to a maximum of 75% of available work hours for Teaching Delivery and Teaching Related duties with a maximum of 550 hours of Teaching Delivery a year.
Scholarly Teaching Fellow. A Scholarly Teaching Fellow will principally undertake: Teaching Delivery and Teaching-related Duties and their salary will be as per Table 2 of Schedule 1 of the Agreement, and Work that would otherwise have been performed in the University by a Casual Academic Staff Member No later than six months prior to the end of a STF’s third year of a Continuing Appointment an evaluation process will be undertaken with the Head of School to identify the career path for the STF to either a teaching and research academic role, a teaching academic role or to progress the STF career path. The evaluation process will include a discussion of opportunities for promotion of the STF to a Level B appointment if a teaching academic or teaching and research academic role is identified. Appointment to a Different Role
Scholarly Teaching Fellow. The University shall use its best endeavours to employ eight (8) Scholarly Teaching Fellows (STF) over the nominal life of this Agreement. The intent of these roles is to reduce the amount of casual teaching undertaken and/or to attract potential PhD students or persons who have recently completed a PhD. STFs can be employed in the following circumstances:
Scholarly Teaching Fellow. (STF) Appointment to an STF position will be on the basis of merit. Where an STF appointment is to be on the basis of competitive merit, an Academic Staff Member, nominated by the Unions and employed in the Faculty where the vacancy is located, will be invited to be on any selection panel for STF appointments. An STF position may be filled by a Continuing Appointment or a Fixed Term Appointment subject to Clause 15.2, Use of Fixed Term Appointments. An STF will be allocated up to a maximum of 75% of available work hours for teaching and Teaching-related Duties, with a maximum of 550 hours of Teaching Delivery a year. An STF will normally have a maximum of 36 weeks Teaching Delivery per year. However, this may be varied due to alternative teaching arrangements, clinical teaching, practicums and fieldwork. The Workload allocation will provide for a 10 week Teaching Delivery-free period as included in annual work planning (and this should preferably be in a single block or blocks of weeks subject to the core teaching program commitments of each Staff Member). An STF will be allocated a minimum of 25% of available work hours for other academic activities. A STF will principally undertake work that would otherwise have been performed in the University by a Casual Academic Staff Member. It is not the intention of the University to engage a STF to perform work previously performed by persons in receipt of an employment termination payment. A STF will be appointed at STF Step 1 and will progress annually through incremental steps over a five year period to STF Step 5, in accordance with Table 2 of Schedule 1, Staff Salaries. No later than six months prior to the end of a STF’s third year of Continuing Appointment an evaluation process will be undertaken with the Head of School to identify the career path for the STF to either a teaching and research role, a teaching focussed role or to progress the STF career path. The evaluation process will include a discussion of opportunities for promotion of the STF to a Level B appointment if a teaching focussed or teaching and research role is identified. The University will, subject to Clause 23.6.15, appoint to STF positions up to a maximum of 20% of the equivalent of the Reported Casual Academic Staff as follows:
