Job no: 0063879
Location: Parkville
Role type: Full-time; Fixed-Term for 6 months
Faculty: Melbourne Law School
Salary: UOM 5, $83,159 - $ 95,518 p.a. plus 17% super
- Join us at Melbourne Law School and be a key player in our students' success.
- Provide essential administrative support for timetabling and assessment within the Academic Support Office.
- Handle everything from exam scheduling and results reporting to class registration and room allocations.
- Salary packaging, subsidised health and wellbeing services, and a 25% discount on graduate courses to our staff and their immediate families!
About the Role
As an Academic Programs Officer, you will contribute to a variety of tasks including assessment procedures, examination processes, results reporting, class scheduling, and liaison with academic staff. Additionally, you will assist in managing timetables for the Juris Doctor, Melbourne Law Masters, and breadth courses.
Under the guidance of the Program Delivery Manager, you'll manage your own workload, juggle multiple deadlines, and provide expert advice on university regulations.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Providing advice to academic staff and students on results, assessment, timetables, and class registration, while also assisting with the planning, administration, collation, and uploading of all examination results.
- Updating the Learning Management System, StudentOne, and University handbook, identifying students requiring priority marking for graduation, coordinating class registration, and entering and monitoring timetabling data.
- Providing Executive Officer support to committees, ensuring accurate record keeping for Academic Misconduct cases, and undertaking other activities to support the Teaching and Learning team.
Who We Are Looking For
You will excel in interpersonal and relationship management, effectively liaise with diverse individuals, and demonstrate clarity and diplomacy in communication. Your strong organisational skills, ability to work autonomously and as part of a team, and commitment to high-quality client service will ensure you succeed in this role.
You also have:
- An appropriate qualification or a combination of relevant experience and education.
- Strong organisational acumen to ensure tasks are completed promptly and efficiently, coupled with adept planning and prioritisation abilities to oversee task completion.
This role requires that the successful candidate must undergo and maintain an up-to-date Working with Children Check. This is essential to guarantee a secure environment for all individuals at the University. In the case the selected candidate doesn't have a valid Working with Children Check, they will be able to apply for the WWCC as part of the initial onboarding procedures.
Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. This role requires current valid work rights for Australia.
Your New Team – Melbourne Law School
Melbourne Law School is Australia's first all-graduate law faculty. Melbourne Law School was the first faculty in Australia to teach law, and awarded this country's first law degrees. The Law School is now fully graduate with its Juris Doctor for admission to practice recognised as a high level qualification in Australia and beyond. Coupled with the unrivalled excellence of the Melbourne Law Masters and its excellent Research Higher Degree programs, the Law School offers a unique opportunity for the integration of scholarship and teaching.
Its faculty is a vibrant community of creative scholars, committed to a highly collegial, research-intensive institutional life. The Law School has particular strengths in comparative analysis. It aims to integrate teaching with research and engagement activities and to engage with local, national and global communities.
The Law School is a single department faculty located in a custom designed building in University Square. The Law School has approximately 2,200 graduate students (including JD, Melbourne Law Masters and Research High Degrees).
What We Offer You!
In addition, we offer the opportunity to be part of a vibrant community and enjoy a range of benefits, including generous leave provisions, salary packaging, health and well-being services and discounts on graduate courses. For more information, check out our benefits page!
About the University of Melbourne
We’re tightly connected with the community, both at home and abroad. We take pride in our people, who all contribute to our mission to benefit society through the transformative impact of education and research. Discover more via our website and stay connected with our stories and people on LinkedIn.
Be Yourself
The University of Melbourne values the unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions that each person brings to our community and welcomes and celebrates diversity. First Nations people, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, parents, carers, people of all ages, abilities and genders, and people of diverse ethnicity, nationality and faith are encouraged to apply. Our aim is to create a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community in which we live. For more information, please visit our Diversity and Inclusion page.
We are dedicated to ensuring barrier free and inclusive practices to recruit the most talented candidates. If you require reasonable adjustments, please contact Kim Groizard at hr-careers@unimelb.edu.au, with an email containing your name and contact details for a confidential discussion. Please ensure your email is titled "Reasonable Adjustments Request".
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Applicants
We aspire to be the University of choice for Indigenous Australians, with unprecedented investment to attract, nurture and retain Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and staff. Tangible support through a range of programs and initiatives will ensure that you personally succeed and flourish while at the University of Melbourne.
For further information, including our 2023-2027 Indigenous strategy please visit -https://about.unimelb.edu.au/reconciliation/murmuk-djerring
Join Us!
If you feel this role is right for you, please apply with the following documents:
- Resume
- Cover Letter outlining your interest and experience
- The responses against the Selection Criteria^ (found in the Position Description)
^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
If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please feel free to contact Petra Newton via email at hr-careers@unimelb.edu.au, ensuring that you include the Position Number and the Job Title as the subject. Please do not share your application to this email address.
If you have any particular questions regarding the job please contact the person listed in the Position Description.
Position Description
