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Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Enterprise and Innovation

Employer
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Closing date
21 Feb 2020

Job Details

Work type: Fixed Term
Location: Parkville
Division/Faculty: Office of Vice-Chancellor's Office
Department/School: Department of Research
Salary: Senior Executive
Role & Superannuation rate: Academic - Full time - 17% super

Ranked number 32 in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the University of Melbourne competes on an international stage with the best institutions globally and has an international outlook and reach to match.

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Enterprise and Innovation) (DVC-EI) supports the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) providing academic leadership for the development and maturation of the University’s enterprise, industry engagement and innovation ambitions. The DVC-EI fosters the development of a research performance culture in which entrepreneurial activity and end-user focused research are recognised and rewarded in equal measure with other research outputs.

The DVC-EI will be an advocate for the University nationally and internationally with regard to research enterprise opportunities, and as such will be recognised as a leader, bringing expertise from across research, business, government or entrepreneurial communities. The appointee will also have demonstrable expertise in stakeholder engagement, partnership building, commercialisation, multi-party research collaborations and working in complex organisations with a range of disciplinary traditions.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop and support one of the world’s leading universities in the areas of research enterprise and innovation.

Please do not apply via the University website. Recruitment for this position is being managed by The Insight Group.

For further information, please contact Dr Rohan Carr or Ms Emily Witts at The Insight Group, by phone +61 3 9654 3288 or email applications@insightgroup.com.au Applications should be forwarded directly to The Insight Group by the close date.

Position Description

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Applications close: 21 Feb 2020 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight 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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