Pūkenga (Lecturer) in Botany

Pūkenga (Lecturer) in Botany

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**DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY | TE TARI HUAOTA**
**DIVISION OF SCIENCES | TE ROHE A AHIKĀROA**

**_ Te mahi/The role_**

Applications are invited for the position of Lecturer in Botany. We are seeking to appoint a dynamic teacher and researcher with energy and vision to pursue and engage in new opportunities that contribute to teaching and research in the Department of Botany.

**_ Kā pūkeka me kā wheako/Skills and experience_**
- A PhD with a research focus in any area of botany.
- Demonstrated ability to work well with students and staff from differing academic and cultural backgrounds.
- Demonstrated ability and passion for delivering high-quality teaching that will support and enhance the Department’s degree programme.
- The ability to establish, develop and maintain an independent and on-going research programme with funding success.
- Effective communication and relationship management skills, with the ability to create a collegial, supportive, and motivating environment for staff and students.
- Commitment to and/or have established connections or track record of working with international and/or national researchers.
- The ability and desire to participate in service within the department, the University and wider community.

**_ Mō te tari/About the department_**

The Division of Sciences is one of the four teaching divisions in the University, the others being Health Sciences, Commerce, and Humanities. The Division of Sciences represents a broad range of disciplines in 15 Departments and a number of inter-disciplinary programmes.

We are seeking to appoint an outstanding Pūkenga to join the Department of Botany at the University of Otago based in Ōtepoti Dunedin, Te Wai Pounamu South Island. We are the only Department of Botany in Aotearoa New Zealand and have a long history, being the first Department of Botany to be formed in this country.

Staff in the Department of Botany teach into a wide range of degree majors, including Botany, Ecology, Genetics, Plant Biotechnology, Agricultural Innovation, Marine Science and Oceanography. The Department of Botany is a research-active Department, with programmes spanning ecosystem science, plant functional biology, cell and molecular biology and taxonomy, with a strong emphasis on the ecology and evolution of New Zealand flora*, ecosystem processes and services, environmental change and resilience, physiological processes and plant-human interactions, including food (*‘flora’ defined broadly to include terrestrial and aquatic vascular and non-vascular plants, fungi, algae, cyanobacteria and plant viruses). The Department of Botany has a range of technical and analytical equipment, greenhouses, laboratory and field work facilities. We also have access to other university facilities, for example, the Otago Genomics Facility, and the Portobello Marine Laboratory and its associated research facilities, including a research vessel, which are based on Otago Harbour within the City and administered by the Department of Marine Science.

The University of Otago welcomes, supports and celebrates Māori and Pasifika staff and students. The Office of Māori Development provides guardianship over Māori matters at an organisation-wide level. The University has a Māori Staff Caucus known as Te Poutama Māori, a Pacific Academic Staff Caucus, a Māori student centre known as Te Huka Mātauraka and a Pacific Islands student support centre. Each division of the University has an Associate Dean (Māori) and networks of staff supporting Māori and Pasifika students.

The Department of Botany is committed to affording students the opportunity to engage with knowledge of plants from a Māori world view, and to strengthening its curriculum and research in relation to kaupapa Māori, mātauranga Māori, commitment to Te Tiriti o Wāitangi, the University of Otago Māori Strategic Framework and Pacific Strategic Framework.

**_ Pūroko/Further details_**

Specific enquiries may be directed to Professor David Orlovich, Head of Department, Department of Botany | Te Tari Huaota via the contact details below.

**_ Tono/Application_