Reeach Centre Coordinator

**Job no**: 0058750
**Location**:Parkville
**Role type**:Part time; Fixed-term for 2 years
**Faculty**:Melbourne Graduate School of Education
**Salary**:UOM 6 - $89,182 - $96,536 p.a. plus 17% super (pro rata for part-time)

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 - Melbourne Graduate School of Education**

MGSE is a Centre of high impact research and teaching. Home to a number of internationally recognised experts, we are at the cutting edge of teaching and research in our field.

Part of the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus, we are based at 234 Queensberry Street and 100 Leicester Street. Our buildings are designed specifically for graduate education students, offering a range of contemporary learning and social spaces.

Our flagship Master of Teaching is based on a clinical approach to teaching and is a significant shift away from traditional approaches to teacher education. We also offer a range of professional development and higher degree research courses for people working in education and related professions. A large number of significant research projects are based here, and we work closely with local, national and international partners on a wide range of projects across education and related disciplines.

**The REEaCh Centre (Research in Effective Education in Early Childhood)**
The REEaCh Centre was established in 2019 through the generous support of the Leaper Foundation. The purpose of the Centre is to focus on three priorities of research and engagement in early childhood education and care: the **quality** of early childhood education programs, the **equitable participation** of all children in high-quality programs, and the importance of **educational leadership** to sustained quality improvement in early childhood education programs.

Our research is multi-disciplinary and occurs in partnership with early childhood stakeholders to build capacity and provide professional learning around our two research programs:

- _Teacher effectiveness in early childhood education_, with a focus on teacher-child interactions and assessment for learning practices as valuable ways to maximise young children’s learning and development outcomes, and address disparities in child development early in life; and
- _The impact of early childhood education on children’s learning outcomes_, demonstrating the mechanisms (e.g., sufficient quality and intensity) by which early childhood education programs impact children’s learning and development.

**About the Role**
The Centre Coordinator will work within the REEaCh Centre (Research in Effective Education in Early Childhood) at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE). The Centre Coordinator will work closely with the Director and Associate Director of the Centre to support the day-to-day operations of the Centre, support the development of new research proposals, publications, and co-ordinate and manage research activities of the Centre. The Centre Coordinator will work collaboratively with the Centre staff and other groups within MGSE. It is desirable that the Centre Coordinator have experience working within the University sector and in coordinating research projects.

Responsibilities include:

- Providing project coordination support: creating tasks and deadlines under supervision, assisting with staff and stakeholder coordination to ensure deliverables are met.
- Providing secretariat functions for meetings and Centre seminars and conferences including scheduling, venue & catering booking, coordination and registration of participants, minute taking, following up actions, and the collation and organization of meeting papers.
- Providing communications support including liaising with stakeholders; assisting with publications-related administration; assisting with development of web content and newsletters; contributing to poster and PowerPoint presentation material; and assisting with media events.
- Assisting with formatting of written research outputs - reports and manuscripts

**About You**
To be successful in this role you will have excellent written and oral communication skills. You will also have strong interpersonal skills, including stakeholder liaison, with proven ability to exercise sound judgement and communicate effectively with people from a very diverse range of backgrounds. You will bring strong organisational skills and initiative in problem-solving.

You will also have:

- A tertiary qualification in a relevant field, with subsequent relevant experience or an equivalent com