Project Officer
- Employer
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Closing date
- 2 Feb 2021
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- Job Type
- Professional Services, Administrative
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Part Time
Job Details
Work type: Fixed Term
Location: Parkville
Division/Faculty: Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Department/School: Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
Salary: $85,134 - $92,154 (UOM 6)
Role & Superannuation rate: Professional - Part time - 9.5% super
About the role:
The Project Officer works within the Engagement Team within the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences. The incumbent will provide support to the Project Manager through the provision of event management and coordination. The position primarily focuses on profiling the School via event development and associated activities in addition to some oversight of small engagement projects. In particular, the Project and Communications Officer is required to drive the events associated with the 75th anniversary of Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences.
This position reports to the Manager of Partnerships and Engagement.
About you:
ESSENTIAL
- You will be focused professional with experience in event organisation and delivery. Ideally you will possess a degree with subsequent relevant experience
- Strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills with the ability to relate effectively with a range of people across all levels of the organisation
- Demonstrated event management and marketing expertise
- Excellent written communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Demonstrated problem solving/analytics skills with the ability to deliver creative solutions
- Highly developed skills in time management, setting priorities, planning and organising own work and influencing others in order to meet deadlines
- Demonstrated commitment to providing excellent customer service whilst using judgement to ensure they are working within the University’s policies and procedures
- High level of proficiency in the use of standard application software such as the Microsoft Office suite and web editing software
DESIRABLE
- Experience in or an understanding of the higher education sector
OTHER JOB-RELATED INFORMATION
- Occasional work out of ordinary hours
Position Description
Applications close: 02 Feb 2021 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
- 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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