School Partnerships Specialist

**Role type**:Fixed term for 12 months
**Faculty**:Faculty of Education
**Department**/ School**:Melbourne Metrics
**Salary**:Level B $122,212 - $145,121 p.a. (pro-rata for part-time) plus 17% super
- Co-design transformative programs and collaborate with diverse education partners to drive meaningful learning impact.

Investing in you - benefits package including salary packaging, health and wellbeing programs, discounted services, and professional development opportunities.**The University of Melbourne**
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**Your next career opportunity**
Join Melbourne Metrics as a School Partnerships Specialist, where you'll play a pivotal role in advancing our mission to scale the use of next-generation assessment tools, credentials, and services. You'll co-design and deliver innovative school partnership programs, empowering educators to assess and credential the complex competencies learners need to thrive. This unique opportunity allows you to leverage your expertise in teaching, assessment, and school leadership while collaborating with diverse educational partners both domestically and internationally.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Program Design and Delivery: Co-design, review, develop, and refine content and materials for online and face-to-face delivery of school partnership and professional learning programs.
- Facilitation and Coaching: Facilitate convenings and professional learning for educator cohorts, conduct coaching and mentoring sessions, and support participants in embedding new practices.
- Resource Development: Design and produce engaging artefacts and teaching materials, utilizing assessment technologies, tools, and resources to enhance participant experience.
- Continuous Improvement: Contribute to the reporting, evaluation, and quality management of partnerships and programs, using insights to drive continuous improvement.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with external education stakeholders, thought leaders, and team members to contribute effectively to partnerships and programs.

**You may be a great fit if**:
You are an experienced educator with a passion for driving transformation in assessment and recognition practices, possessing strong facilitation and coaching skills, and a commitment to continuous learning and professional development.

**You will also**:

- Have a deep understanding of contemporary assessment approaches, teaching and learning practices, and school leadership.
- Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders effectively.
- Demonstrate strong project management and organizational abilities, with a focus on delivering high-quality programs.
- Exhibit a collaborative and solutions-oriented mindset, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Hold relevant qualifications and experience in education, assessment, or a related field.

For further information please refer to the attached PD.

**What we offer you**
We offer the opportunity to be part of a vibrant community and enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits to support your success and sense of fulfillment, including:

- Supportive flexible work arrangements underpinned by our commitment to inclusion and well-being
- Progressive, considerate leave provisions to empower your work-life balance
- Salary packaging and access to a range of discounted services including Bupa health insurance
- Health and well-being services including a leading Employee Assistance Program

**Your new team - Melbourne Metrics**
Melbourne Metrics is a University of Melbourne social-purpose initiative within the Faculty of Education. It provides next-generation assessment tools, credentials and services, empowering educators to assess and credential the complex competencies learners need to thrive now and in the future. Melbourne Metrics works though research and development partnerships, domestically and internationally, with schools and other educational institutions, system authorities, and industry organisations. It researches, designs, builds, validates, and brings-to-scale trusted, research-based innovative, useful assessment and credentialing products and associated services that respond to the needs of its partners, and of the industry.

Faculty of Education fosters staff productivity, growth and engagement in a collective effort to enrich the contribution that education makes to society. We conduct research and teaching that leads to the transformation of education practice both within and beyond the profession. The Faculty stimulates learning that enriches the potential of students from around the world, enabling meaningful careers and profound contributions to communities.

**Be yourself**
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