Associate Director, Clinical Education Strategy

**Job no**: 0063536
**Location**:Parkville
**Role type**:Full-time, Continuing
**Faculty**:Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
**Salary**:Senior Manager 1 - Attractive salary p.a. + 17% super
- **Drive strategic leadership for the clinical education portfolio within MDHS, spearheading quality and innovation in clinical education and placements.**:

- **Lead the integration of incident and risk management and strategic innovation to elevate clinical education excellence, ensuring compliance with policy and legislative requirements while cultivating a culture of continuous improvement**:

- **Salary packaging, subsidised health and wellbeing services, fitness and cultural clubs, Myki discounts, and a 25% discount on graduate courses to our staff and their immediate families**

**About the Role**

The Associate Director, Clinical Education Strategy and Risk at the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences plays a critical role in providing strategic leadership for the Faculty’s clinical education portfolio, with a strong focus on quality education and placements. Reporting to the Academic Director CESAR, this role is pivotal in driving excellence in clinical education through innovative risk management, strategic alignment, and collaborative partnerships across the University and beyond. The incumbent will lead a team to ensure effective incident management, compliance, and continuous improvement in educational practices.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Drive the strategic planning for clinical education across the Faculty MDHS by integrating University strategies, government policies and national and international benchmarks, with risk mitigation strategies identified through clinical education risk reporting processes
- Manage and maintain risk reporting and the MDHS clinical education risk register with transparent, responsive and timely strategic alignment.
- Ensure effective communication and support is provided to all clinical education support staff in Schools, and the Faculty.

**Who We Are Looking For**

You will demonstrate strong autonomous judgment, leadership, and problem-solving skills to develop and implement innovative policies and solutions, while effectively leading administrative support functions and fostering a collaborative work environment. You will also excel in managing change, engaging with diverse stakeholders, and building strong business partnerships.

You will also have:

- A tertiary qualification or other comparable qualification, and/or extensive experience in a similar role at a senior level in the tertiary education sector
- Demonstrated ability to develop and implement strategic and operational plans and business process and systems improvement, to ensure the delivery of programs and services on time with enhanced service delivery outcomes
- Understanding of the disciplines and professions represented in the MDHS award courses (health care, population health and biomedical sciences) is highly desirable.

For further information regarding responsibilities and requirements, please refer to the attached PD.

**Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position**. This role requires current valid work rights for Australia.

**Your New Team - Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences**

The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences has an enviable research record and is the University of Melbourne’s largest faculty in terms of management of financial resources, employment of academic and professional staff, teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate (including research higher degree) students and the conduct of basic and applied research. The Faculty’s annual revenue is $628m with approximately 55% of this income related to research activities. The Faculty has a student teaching load in excess of 8,500 equivalent full-time students including more than 1,300 research higher degree students. The Faculty has approximately 2,195 staff comprising 642 professional staff and 1,553 research and teaching staff.

**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

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