Technology Coordinator

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 26/06/2026

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial

Reference: 1451992

**Location Profile**:
Monash Tech School is one of ten Tech Schools established across Victoria. It is a funded initiative through the Statewide Programs and Tech Schools Division in the Department of Education. Hosted by Monash University, at its Clayton campus and administered by John Monash Science School, Monash Tech School¿s partner schools include Year 7-12 secondary schools and specialist education schools in the Monash local government area. In addition it has a number of industry, tertiary and research partners including the City of Monash, Holmesglen Institute and SEC Victoria.
Monash Tech School offers hands-on learning programs that offer students new STEM opportunities, whether they be incursions, excursions, industry workplace tours, public lectures, or maker faires.

The Programs
Monash Tech School designs learning programs that challenge students to tackle real-world problems and use technology to build skills such as collaboration, problem-solving and critical thinking.

Monash Tech School programs are delivered in a variety of ways:
**Onsite**: Partner school students in Years 7 - 10 come to our facility to participate in a one or two day program. They use principles such as design thinking to create potential solutions to real world problems.
**Online**: Students across Victoria participate in Zoom-delivered modules designed to challenge students to consider new ideas and concepts. They engage with hands-on resources and digital technologies to explore various skills related to the module topic.
**On Field**: Partner school students attend immersion days both onsite at Monash Tech School and at industry sites. They complete activities allowing students to investigate growth employment sectors, identify essential skill sets, and make informed decisions about future pathways and occupations.
**On Call**: Students participate in programs designed and delivered by Monash Tech School staff in collaboration with partner school teachers. Students engage with a range of physical and digital technologies to explore future-focused problems that may be delivered at Monash Tech School or at their own school.

Monash Tech School has a strong commitment to child safety. This role requires your commitment to ensuring Child Safe policies are adhered to and the safety of children is paramount. Monash Tech School is committed to the Child Safe standards, and continuously working to ensure that our students feel safe and are safe.

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC1** Demonstrated knowledge of appropriate Child Safe behaviours when engaging with children and young people.

**SC2** Demonstrated experience conducting research into emerging STEM technologies.

**SC3** Demonstrated skill, knowledge and experience in implementing STEM technologies in educational settings.

**SC4 **Demonstrated ability or capacity to work and contribute in a team driven environment that includes a variety of stakeholders of different professional backgrounds and experience.

**SC5** Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively to multiple audiences, including capacity to coach others in the effective use of technologies to meet individual or educational goals.

**SC6** Demonstrated organisational and time management skills needed to help implement high quality projects within budget, scope and deadlines.

**Role**:
Technology coordinators form the core of the tech-team. The purpose of this team is to lead the technological aspects, and to collaborate with teaching staff on the content aspects of student program development. This team also supports student program delivery.

General functions of the tech-team include coordination of technology assets in support of program delivery, maintenance of existing technology assets and physical spaces, supporting administration, and development of new technology products.

Within the tech-team your area of coordination will be specific to technology research.
You will conduct, and share your deep investigation into new technologies, and collaborate to integrate this research into student program development. This will include:

- Proactively following technology developments both locally and globally.
- Leading discussions with the team at large to determine how technologies might best be brought into the Monash Tech School context.
- Developing specialised knowledge and know-how on select emerging technologies.
- Translating findings into value for the Monash Tech School through staff training, new product development and documentation.

**Responsibilities**:
**Key responsibilities**:

- Discovering new technologies and interpreting them to bring value to the Monash Tech School context.
- Conducting deep dives to develop capability with new technologies.
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