Special Projects and Evaluation Officer
- Employer
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Closing date
- 22 Sep 2019
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- Job Type
- Professional Services, Administrative
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Work type: Continuing
Location: Parkville
Division/Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Salary: $83,301 - $90,170 (UOM 6)
Role & Superannuation rate: Professional - Full time - 17% super
About The Faculty of Arts, Strategy, Planning and Resources
The Faculty of Arts Strategy, Planning & Resources (SPR) team is responsible for facilitating programs and functions in the Budgets & Planning, Business Analytics and OHS & Facilities portfolios. Arts SPR seeks to support business operations and the achievement of Faculty strategic and operational goals through the provision of high-quality business support services and business partnering.
About the role
Arts SPR are currently seeking to appoint a Special Projects & Evaluation Officer to fill this ongoing role in the Business Analytics & Evaluation portfolio.
The primary responsibility of the incumbent will be to support the delivery of projects designed to investigate and evaluate current and proposed Faculty and School programs and initiatives. The incumbent will work collaboratively within the Faculty’s SPR team as well as the wider Faculty teams to define projects and support their delivery on time and within scope.
The successful candidate will have excellent skills in communication, planning & organisation, data analysis & presentation, teamwork and be able to effectively manage relationships with client groups internal and external to the Faculty. It will also be a requirement that the incumbent be self-motivated with an ability to work autonomously within their portfolio.
We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
About you - skills and attributes will be highly regarded:
- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline and/or an equivalent mix of education and relevant experience
- An enthusiastic approach to working as part of and contributing to a team
- Excellent interpersonal skills including an ability to effectively relate to individuals at all levels
- Demonstrated project management skills in the planning, co-ordination and completion of tasks to meet deadlines both as an individual and as part of a project team
- Well-developed communication skills demonstrating the ability to synthesize data and analyses and draft reports
- Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with the principles and practices of qualitative and quantitative analysis
Indigenous Australians seeking support to apply for a vacancy are encouraged to contact the University by emailing their contact details and position number to arts-hr@unimelb.edu.au
Position Description
Applications close: 22 Sep 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
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Parkville
Melbourne
Victoria
VIC 3010
Australia
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