School Operations Manager

**Job no**: 0053984
**Location**:Parkville
**Role type**:Full-time; Continuing
**Faculty**:Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
**School**:Melbourne Dental School
**Salary**:UOM 8 - $$119,742 - $129,607 p.a. plus 17% super
- **Provide operational leadership at the Melbourne Dental School, ensuring efficient processes and workforce management.**:

- **Lead a small, essential team, offering strategic guidance, mentoring, and managing special projects for impactful school operations.**:

- **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 School Operations Manager at the Melbourne Dental School (MDS) provides critical operational leadership, ensuring the efficient delivery of the School’s operations portfolio. This role oversees workforce management, supports strategic planning, and leads special projects while working closely with internal and external stakeholders. Strong leadership, advanced analytical skills, and a proactive approach are essential for ensuring operational alignment with the School’s overarching strategy.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Provide leadership to the Operations team ensuring team are supported through development programs and performance reviews to maximise their professional growth, efficiency and effectiveness.
- Lead and manage the Operations team to deliver the cyclical workload and deliver consistently high-quality support across the School.
- Provide high level support to the School Manager to identify, review, adapt and implement new processes, guidelines and workflow tools, within the context of continuous improvement and innovation to manage the School operations.
- Manage local HR administration through the supervision of staff responsible for continuing, fixed-term and casual recruitment processes, including coordination of local induction.

**Who We Are Looking For**

You will also have:

- A graduate qualification in a relevant field of study and extensive relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.
- Proven ability to interpret policies and procedures to provide accurate advice and complete tasks appropriately within a framework of broad guidelines.
- Demonstrated ability to exercise judgement, make recommendations and decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new situations, and quickly assimilate new concepts and information, and deliver positive, innovative solutions to complex operational issues.

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 - Melbourne Dental School**
The Melbourne Dental School has a strong tradition in dental research and an established international reputation in several research areas. Research in the School is an integral component of staff and student activities underpinning both the undergraduate and graduate curricula. The major research activities of the school are conducted via three divisions and four major research groups, which range translational biomedical science to clinical studies, pedagogical research. The Head of School joined the University of Melbourne in 2020 and is leading a program of change within the School focusing on strategic reviews of education, research and organisational structure, known as MDS’25.

**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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