Professional Experience Team Leader

**Work closely with internal stakeholders, industry partners, and community organisations to create valuable opportunities for students.**:

- ** Lead a dynamic team to plan and coordinate student placements, driving process improvements to enhance both staff and student experiences.**:

- ** Help shape the future workforce by ensuring students gain high-quality, real-world experience through placements.**:

- ** May 2025 start**

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading the Professional Experience team, ensuring high performance and a positive workplace culture, including overseeing the allocation of responsibilities, performance reviews, and development opportunities for team members.
- Coordinating the annual professional experience calendar, ensuring timely and compliant student placement, and providing operational support and advice to senior management and academic staff.
- Developing and redefining procedures to improve placement experiences, driving a culture of continuous improvement to enhance student engagement and success.
- Fostering and maintaining productive relationships with internal stakeholders, private providers, partners, and community organisations, to promote professional experience opportunities and negotiate placements.
- Ensuring compliance with regulatory and legislative requirements and providing recommendations and insights to senior management.

You will inspire us with your:

- Leadership skills and ability to drive high performance and cultivate a positive workplace culture.
- Eye for detail and a strong working knowledge of policy and governance requirements related to student placements.
- Outstanding communication skills and ability to build relationships across teams and disciplines.

This continuing position is full time at a HEW 7 Higher Education Level located at Gosford campus.

A**bout our University**

The University of Newcastle stands as a global leader distinguished by a commitment to equity and excellence. Our vision is to be a world-leading University for our regions and creating a better future for our regions and the globe. Underpinned by this vision and our values of excellence, equity, engagement and sustainability, the University of Newcastle’s _Looking Ahead_ Strategic Plan 2020-2025 outlines the University’s commitment to delivering an exceptional student experience and serving our communities.

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**About the Unit**

The Professional Experience Unit is situated in the Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor of the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing. The College is comprised of four Schools: School of Medicine and Public Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy and School of Health Sciences, and has a strong, clinical-oriented research profile, excellent teaching and innovative learning approaches, and a focus on professional experience

**What we offer**

In addition to working for a university that is breaking boundaries, discovering new ways of thinking and cementing a place as a global leader, we offer a range of benefits to our employees to ensure you balance your commitments, stay healthy and work effectively.

These include:

- The remuneration for this position is from $103,641-$ 116,596 p.a. + superannuation and is commensurate with skills and experience
- Flexible working arrangements (in line with the University’s Flexible Work Policy
- 17% super and salary packaging
- Additional University Holiday days, generous personal leave and parental leave, annual leave loading and additional purchased leave scheme
- Discounts in private health insurance, gym memberships, software, travel and more
- Wellbeing programs

**Your next steps**
- Your resume
- A statement addressing the Essential Criteria listed below demonstrating your qualifications and experience with examples.
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills including the capacity to build relationships and an inter-disciplinary way of working.
- Ability to generate a strong sense of team spirit, co-operation and collaboration within and across teams.
- Demonstrated organisational skills including attention to detail and the ability to manage and organise workflows of a team to meet competing demands and adaptability to a range of workplace expectations and responsibilities.
- Demonstrated high level of computer competency, including familiarity with corporate software systems such as SONIA, Blackboard, TRIM and NUSTAR.
- Demonstrated knowledge of workplace obligations to, and experience in leading and cultivating workplace practices and behaviours that promote, support and maintain a safe, healthy, equitable, diverse and respectful workplace; including responding appropriately to adverse accidents, incidents, behaviours, issues, reports and the like.

**Please upload your Cover Letter**and** response to the requested Criteria as**one** PDF document**.

Your Cover Letter and Response to the Essential