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Senior Grants Officer, Research Grant and Contract Services

Employer
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Closing date
29 Jul 2021

Job Details

Work type: Continuing
Location: Parkville
Division/Faculty: Chief Operating Officer Portfolio
Department/School: Research, Innovation and Commercialisation
Salary: $96,002 - $103,921 (UOM 7)
Role & Superannuation rate: Professional - Full time - 17% super

About Chief Operating Operator Portfolio

The Chief Operating Officer (COO) Portfolio is responsible for the University’s budget and financial performance, and the management of its property and capital.  It also delivers efficient and effective shared services in support of all aspects of the University’s business.

About the role

As the Senior Grants Officer (in Research Grant and Contract Services, RGCS) will provide efficient and effective pre-and-post award support for research grants, as well as assisting researchers and the University to meet obligations to research sponsors and collaborators. This is a ‘rover’ role within RGCS, so the Senior Grants Officer will need to work across several teams in RCGS.

You will take a pro-active approach to innovate and develop diverse research income streams to help drive income growth. This may include support for international grants and all types of domestic grants. The role leads the provision of high quality research support services, including educational and development activities such as seminars and workshops, co-ordination of grant schemes, income/application pipeline monitoring and tracking, strategic and eligibility reviews on grant applications. Funding schemes supported may include both large volume proposal rounds and high value collaborative research initiatives across the University of Melbourne and partner institutions.

About you

  • Completion of a tertiary degree and/or relevant work-related experience or equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training
  • Demonstrate the values of University First by acting in the best interest of the University; displaying Service Excellence by striving to deliver beyond expectations and taking ownership of the delivery; and value working collaboratively as One Team, connecting with people and building relationships in your workplace
  • Expert knowledge of research funding programs and funding rules including research management across the life-cycle (both pre- and post-award); or, demonstrated experience in assisting to deliver income growth targets in complex organisations using external funding mechanisms
  • Proven ability to develop strong relationships across a wide variety of stakeholders, for example, executive level staff (Chancellery Research and Enterprise), senior researchers, faculty research administrators, external sponsors, and industry partners
  • Expert planning and organisational skills, especially in the successful coordination of organisation-wide participation (both pre and post award) in high prestige research funding schemes; or, expert planning and organisational skills in the design and delivery of sponsored programs
  • Proven ability to thrive in a changing and fast paced environment.

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/staff-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/selection-criteria

Position Description:

Download File Senior Grants Officer.pdf

Applications close: 29 Jul 2021 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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