Project Officer
- Employer
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Closing date
- 3 Jun 2019
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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: Office of Vice-Chancellor's Office
Department/School: Academic
Salary: $91,913 - $99,495 (UOM 7)
Role & Superannuation rate: Professional - Full time - 17% super
- 3 year full-time fixed term opportunity
About Academic
Led by the Provost, Chancellery (Academic) supports achievement of the vision and objectives for learning and teaching, and academic performance contained in Growing Esteem 2015-2020. The Academic portfolio sits alongside other divisions (Research, International, Strategy & Culture, Administration & Finance) within Chancellery, and is responsible for setting and overseeing:
- The Melbourne student experience;
- The University's commitment to student equity and diversity;
- The quality of learning and teaching through educational innovation and standards;
- The continuous development and improvement of the Melbourne Curriculum:
- Melbourne's Digital Learning Strategy; and
- Academic performance, development, promotion, reward and recognition.
About the Role
The University’s Academic team is seeking a Project Officer to support the delivery of several key projects on a full-time basis for three years.
In this role, you will report to the Director, Students and Equity and will be tasked with supporting the management of key projects across the Chancellery (Academic) portfolio to ensure they are running efficiently and effectively. The incumbent will also provide governance support by undertaking administrative support for key project working groups through the production of reports, minutes and agendas.
About You
- A relevant tertiary qualification.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience of project management in a complex higher education or public policy setting.
- Demonstrated high-level writing skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to manage large data sets to deliver quality information effectively to client groups with varied requirements.
- Ability to critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, synthesis broad data and analyse at a detailed level to provide a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
- High-level communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, including the demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrated strong organisational skills and the ability to effectively plan, prioritise and manage projects and activities.
- Advanced skills in Excel.
Please submit a cover letter, CV and document addressing the key selection criteria listed in the position description.
For information to assist you with compiling short statements to answer the selection criteria, please go to: https://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/selection-criteria
Position Description
Advertised: 13 May 2019 12:00 AM AUS Eastern Standard Time
Applications close: 03 Jun 2019 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time
Company
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
-
Parkville
Melbourne
Victoria
VIC 3010
Australia
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