Team Leader Advising and Mentoring

**Job no**: 0057068
**Location**:Parkville
**Role type**:Full time; Continuing
**Faculty**:Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
**Department/School**:Learning and Teaching Unit
**Salary**:UOM 7 - $98,402 - $106,519 p.a. plus 17% super

The University of Melbourne would like to acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campuses are situated, the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung Peoples, the Yorta Yorta Nation, the Dja Dja Wurrung People. We acknowledge that the land on which we meet and learn was the place of age-old ceremonies, of celebration, initiation and renewal, and that the local Aboriginal Peoples have had and continue to have a unique role in the life of these lands.

**About the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences**
In the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (MDHS) we aspire to be a place where both students and staff are connected in a community of scholarship dedicated to understanding, challenging and sharing knowledge through open inquiry. In Advancing Health 2030 the Faculty has committed to ensuring that students are at the heart of our Faculty. Not only are we committed to providing an outstanding learning and teaching experience, but we also want to ensure that all our students feel a strong sense of belonging and engagement.

**About the Role**
As Team Leader Advising and Mentoring, you will be responsible for the smooth operational delivery of the University’s Academic Advising and Melbourne Peer Mentor Program (MPMP) within the Faculty. This involves delivering of a series of evolving large-scale cyclic activities that focus on connecting commencing undergraduate students with a cohort of peers and a later year peer mentor, followed by a series of meetings with a dedicated academic staff member.

Responsibilities include:

- Leading a small team of staff to effectively deliver the University’s Academic Advising and MPMP program in the Faculty, with responsibility for ensuring alignment to strategic program objectives
- Collaborating with Academic Director, Student Experience and Manager, Student Experience on design of student experience and engagement activities
- Managing staff to deliver required initiatives
- Following high-level annual operating cycles and detailed project plans and ensuring program-wide processes for degree-based Academic Advising and MPMP operations are delivered
- Recruiting and supervising casual student interns to support student experience programs

**About You**

You will be an influencing and engaging leader who is able to effectively coach and develop staff. You will be skilled in coordinating and delivering structured services and programs within a complex operating environment as well as showing proven ability to execute and track complex project plans.

You will also have:

- A minimum bachelor level degree with subsequent relevant experience; or extensive experience and specialist or broad knowledge in administrative fields
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with demonstrated experience in influencing and engaging stakeholders across the University in cross-functional activities to support student success.
- Commitment to improving the student/client/customer experience with a focus on connection, belonging and wellbeing
- Demonstrated experience using CRM software within a multi-team environment
- 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._

**_ Please note: To be considered for this role you must have current valid work rights for Australia._**

**About the University**
The University of Melbourne 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.

**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, 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

**Be Yourself**
We value the unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions that each person brings to our community and encourage and celebrate diversity. First Nations people, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, females, people of all ages, with disabilities and culturally and linguistically diverse people are encouraged to apply. Our aim is to create a workforce that reflects the community in which we live.

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