Policy and Project Officer
- Employer
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Closing date
- 16 Feb 2020
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- Job Type
- Professional Services, Administrative, Other Professional Services
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Work type: Fixed Term
Location: Parkville
Division/Faculty: Melbourne Law School
Department/School: Melbourne School of Government
Salary: $103,409 - $111,927 (UOM 8)
Role & Superannuation rate: Professional - Full time - 9.5% super
About Melbourne Law School:
Melbourne Law School (MLS), the host faculty for the Melbourne School of Government, is Australia's first all-graduate law faculty. Melbourne Law School was the first faculty in Australia to teach law, and awarded this country's first law degrees.
About the role:
The Policy and Project Officer undertakes complex and varied project work, carries out research, drafts documents and agreements and provides liaison to assist the Director of the Melbourne School of Government in the management of projects, strategic initiatives and negotiations with a range of stakeholders.
Reporting directly to the Director, the Policy and Project Officer participates in meetings, committees and working groups as required, coordinates and oversees specific activities and projects, and provides advice to senior academic and professional staff members on a range of matters.
This is a full time, 12-month fixed term contract.
About you:
- A relevant tertiary qualification and/or significant equivalent industry experience.
- Exceptional policy and research skills.
- Demonstrated strategic focus, ability to identify opportunities and work to strategic direction.
- Outstanding communication and negotiation skills.
- Strong networker and relationship builder.
- Highly organised and works independently on a diverse range of tasks to achieve quality outcomes.
Indigenous Australians seeking support to apply for a vacancy are encouraged to contact the University by emailing their contact details and position number to law-hr@unimelb.edu.au
Position Description 0044436.docx
Applications close: 16 Feb 2020 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
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The University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings consistently placing us as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and one of the world’s top 50*.
Melbourne attracts the best and brightest students and researchers and, with a history of over 160 years, we occupy a special place at the heart of our city’s cultural scene.
Melbourne is a leading research university, widely renowned for its teaching and the social and economic contributions it makes through knowledge transfer. The University’s performance in international rankings puts it at the forefront of higher education in the Asia-Pacific and beyond.
Internationally, the University is consistently ranked among the leading universities in the world, with its international peers placing it in the top 20 worldwide, and employers placing it in the top 10. In the recent Times Higher Education rankings of the world’s top 200 universities, Melbourne ranked top in Australia and 33 in the world.
Melbourne’s international research pre-eminence was also acknowledged with a top 100 ranking in the Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings. Ranked No. 44 in 2015, the University has climbed steadily in the rankings since first appearing at No. 92 in 2003.
The Melbourne Model introduces undergraduate programs characterised by both breadth and depth, followed by a graduate professional degree, a research higher degree or entry directly into employment.
In 2008 Melbourne commenced offering six New Generation undergraduate degrees in Arts, Biomedicine, Commerce, Environments, Music and Science. The Melbourne Model also introduces a new graduate school experience to Australia, providing the best and brightest with a more focused, intense and professionally relevant degree in areas such as Law, Architecture, Teaching and Nursing. With the Melbourne curriculum now aligning the University with the world’s top universities in Europe, North America and Asia, we enable our students to develop the skills and attributes required by employers all over the world.
More than 50,000 students from over 120 countries take courses in the University’s 12 faculties and graduate schools.
For more information please visit: http://www.unimelb.edu.au
*Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015
- Mini-site
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Telephone
- +61 (3) 8344 4000
- Location
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Parkville
Melbourne
Victoria
VIC 3010
Australia
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