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Manager, Scholarly Communications

Employer
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Closing date
21 Jul 2019

Job Details

Work type: Continuing
Location: Parkville
Division/Faculty: University Services
Department/School: Department of Academic Services and Registrar
Salary: $103,409 - $111,927 (UOM 8)
Role & Superannuation rate: Professional - Full time - 17% super

About University Services

University Services comprises of 1,600 professional staff focused on providing client-centric and innovative services to the University. The group is providing transformational change, defining and influencing future service enhancements, and acts as a shared services function within the University of Melbourne.

About the role

This position manages the Open Scholarship advocacy and outreach program and services leading long-term institutional-wide cultural change for the academic and graduate researcher community.

Operating in a complex, fast-paced and challenging policy and compliance environment, you will seek opportunities to influence developments to ensure open access funder requirements are met and open access publishing opportunities are realised. This role will develop and iterate user-focused services, audit frameworks and reporting, working with a range of stakeholders and academic divisions to achieve the requisite level of long-term engagement in open scholarship opportunities.

You will also ensure engagement with research output is maximized and the Open Access Institutional Repository ecosystem aligns with impact strategies. Furthermore, as an integrated element of research activity, you will ensure that training to support open research is developed. Working closely with the Associate Director, Research Information Management and providing input into to overarching Open Scholarship program of activities also forms part of this role.

About you

You will possess post-graduate qualifications in a relevant discipline and management and supervisory experience, or an equivalent combination of relevant training and/or experience within the tertiary education sector or similar environment.

You will also have:

  • Expert knowledge of open access principles and trends in scholarly communication and publishing.
  • Proven ability to engage in consultation, influence and develop and maintain relationships, understand a diverse range of views, engage stakeholders in constructive discussion and manage expectations.
  • Proven ability to practice exceptional interpersonal skills in a diverse stakeholder group enabling constructive discussion and managing expectations.

To ensure the University provides a safe environment for children, this position requires the incumbent to hold a current and valid Working with Children Check.

Benefits

  • Maximise your benefits through our Salary Packaging scheme
  • Flexible family friendly policies, providing generous leave and working conditions
  • The opportunity to work in a culturally rich environment
  • A substantial discount to eligible staff and their immediate families in undertaking further studies at the University of Melbourne

To find out more, go to http://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/working/benefits

Culture

The University is a vibrant campus. We have well-established clubs and networks giving the opportunity to engage and collaborate with other staff around the University. We strive to create an environment where staff and students promote culturally inclusive behaviour and activities, ensure cultural differences are heard and explored, and actively seek to learn from other cultures.

How to apply

Your application submitted should include a CV along with your responses against the selection criteria found in the Position Description for the role.

*For information to assist you with compiling short statements to answer the selection criteria/competencies, please go to http://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/search/info/selection-criteria

Position Description

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Applications close: 21 Jul 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

Company info
Telephone
+61 (3) 8344 4000
Location

Parkville
Melbourne
Victoria
VIC 3010
Australia

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