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Project Officer, REEaCh Hub

Employer
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Salary
$75,289 – $127,707 p.a. (pro rata) plus 17% super
Closing date
2 May 2022

Job Details

Location: Parkville and Regional Victoria
Role type: Full/Part time; Fixed-term for 12 months
Faculty: Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Salary: Level A/B depending on experience and qualifications

  • Level A – $75,289 – $102,163 p.a. (pro rata) plus 17% super
  • Level B – $107,547 – $127,707 p.a. (pro rata) plus 17% super

Founded in 1853, the University of Melbourne is Australia’s #1 university and is consistently ranked amongst the leading universities in the world. We are proud of our people, our commitment to research and teaching excellence, and our global engagement.

About the Melbourne Graduate School of Education

The Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE) fosters staff productivity, growth and engagement in a collective effort to enrich the contribution that education makes to society. We conduct research and teaching that leads to the transformation of education practice both within and beyond the profession. MGSE stimulates learning that enriches the potential of students from around the world, enabling meaningful careers and profound contributions to communities. We provide research leadership, setting the direction for high-impact, innovative and responsive research that addresses the pressing issues of our time. We lead purposeful engagement with society, sharing our resources and expertise as part of collaborative efforts to build a resilient, equitable and sustainable future.

About the Role

Two fixed-term project officers (3 to 5 days per week) are required support to the Educational and Developmental Gains in Early Childhood (EDGE) study, within the REEaCh Hub at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE). One position will be primarily responsible for fostering relationships with participating kindergarten programs in metropolitan Melbourne and one will work primarily with services in regional Victoria (Gippsland, Wodogna, Shepparton).

The EDGE study is a five-year evaluation of the rollout of three-year-old kindergarten funding in Victoria. Delivering two years of high-quality kindergarten before school is vital for our youngest citizens as it provides the opportunity to gain an EDGE in learning and development, narrows the disadvantage gap and sets them up for future educational success. Currently, there is limited Australian evidence on the impact of kindergarten on children’s outcomes and on how to achieve an equitable and impactful system. The EDGE study will build rigorous evidence around the design, delivery, impact and return on investment of universal provision of early childhood education in the two years before school.

In a typical week at work, you may:

  • Liaise and build professional relationships with stakeholders, including kindergarten teachers, kindergarten directors, families and children, to provide information about the research and plan visits
  • Communicate with participants, recruit and engage with early childhood education services and families and conduct observations of programs and direct assessments of children
  • Score, interpret and enter data

About You

You are experienced in conducting interviews, observations and/or standardised assessments with pre-school aged children. Your strong attention to detail with regard to record keeping, data handling and data entry will serve you well in this role, as will your ability to work flexibly and independently to fit the situation. Your strong interpersonal skills allow you to build rapport and communicate effectively with teachers, educators, parents and caregivers and children, and your time management skills enable you to juggle competing priorities, ensuring all work is completed to a high standard and before their deadlines.

You will further have:

  • Tertiary qualification in Early Childhood Education or allied fields, including Special Education, Psychology, Speech Pathology, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Nursing or similar.
  • Demonstrated experience in early childhood education and care and/or early childhood development in an educational, clinical or community setting.

To ensure the University continues to provide a safe environment for everyone, this position requires the incumbent to hold a current and valid Working with Children Check.

Benefits of Working with Us

In addition to having the opportunity to grow and be challenged, and to be part of a vibrant campus life, our people enjoy a range of rewarding benefits:

  • Flexible working arrangements and generous personal, parental and cultural leave
  • Competitive remuneration, 17% super, salary packaging and leave loading
  • Free and subsidised health and wellbeing services, and access to fitness and cultural clubs
  • Discounts on a wide range of products and services including Myki cards and Qantas Club
  • Career development opportunities and 25% off graduate courses for staff and their immediate families

To find out more, please visit https://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/staff-benefits.

Be Yourself

At UoM, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions that each person brings to our community, and we encourage and celebrate diversity. Indigenous Australians, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, females, people of all ages, with disabilities or culturally diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply for our roles. Our aim is to create a workforce that reflects the community in which we live.

Join Us!

If you feel this role is right for you, please submit your application including a brief cover letter, your resume and your responses against the selection criteria^ (found in the Position Description) for the role.

For information to help you with compiling short statements to answer the selection criteria and competencies, please go to http://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/selection-criteria

Should you require any reasonable adjustments with the recruitment process, please contact the Talent Acquisition team at hr-talent@unimelb.edu.au.

Due to the impacts of COVID-19, we are currently prioritising applications with current valid working rights in Australia and candidates who are not affected by travel restrictions. Please see the latest updates to Australia's immigration and border arrangements: https://covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au/

Position description: 0055834_Project Officer REEaCh Hub_PD.pdf 

Applications close: 2 May 2022 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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