Executive Assistant to Deputy Dean and School Executive Director
- Employer
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Closing date
- 7 Mar 2021
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- Job Type
- Professional Services, Administrative
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Work type: Continuing
Location: Parkville
Division/Faculty: Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Salary: $85,134 - $92,154 (UOM 6)
Role & Superannuation rate: Professional - Full time - 17% super
About the Melbourne Graduate School of Education
The Melbourne Graduate School of Education is a global leader in teaching and education research, offering challenging courses, world-changing research and contemporary learning spaces. The Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE) is a vibrant and exciting place to study and work. Our environment is supportive and student-focussed, and our courses are challenging. Our buildings are designed for graduate education students, offering a range of contemporary learning and social spaces.
About the role
The MSGE is seeking an Executive Assistant to the Deputy Dean and School Executive Director to provide outstanding, intuitive and astute administrative, secretarial and executive support services to the Deputy Dean and School Executive Director (DD & SED). The incumbent may also provide executive support to the Dean where required. This Executive Assistant role is of significant importance to MGSE and the incumbent is required to display a high level of discretion, independent judgment and professionalism whilst regularly interacting with internal and external stakeholders.
About you
As the successful candidate, you will:
- Exercise a high level of confidentiality whilst undertaking a number of concurrent tasks demonstrating excellent organisational, prioritisation and time management skills which are critical to this position;
- Develop, maintain and remediate, where necessary, effective working relationships with Academic Divisions and Chancellery portfolios to ensure high quality and timely service delivery;
- Be an experienced administrative and/or customer service specialist;
- Demonstrate commitment to the delivery of high-quality customer service, and
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of service standards.
Benefits
- Maximise your benefits through our Salary Packaging scheme;
- Flexible family friendly policies, providing generous leave and working conditions;
- Working for one of Australia's top Universities;
- Growing your expertise and innovative thinking in an environment that leaves an impact; and
- The opportunity to work in a culturally rich environment.
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 complete application will include your Cover Letter (which includes your address of the selection criteria) and your CV.
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
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.
Position Description
Applications close: 07 Mar 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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