Project Coordinator

**Job no**: 0058261
**Location**:Parkville
**Role type**:Full time; Fixed-term for 3 years
**Department**: Office of the Provost
**Salary**: UOM 7 - $102,338 - $110,780 p.a. plus 17% super
- Coordinate and contribute to major strategic projects, focusing on teaching and learning portfolios
- Join a growing, dynamic and collaborative team
- 17% super, excellent benefits (including discounts on graduate courses for family and friends) and a flexible hybrid work environment

**About the Role**
This is a unique opportunity to be part of a collaborative team that is at the centre of setting the strategic direction for the University. You’ll work in a space where you can enable that direction with by supporting the successful design and delivery of strategy projects. You’ll quickly gain exposure to the breadth of the University’s teams, services and strategies, and high achievers will be well-placed to progress within Chancellery or other areas of the University.

In a typical week at work, you may:

- Contribute to the design and implementation of strategic projects, including ideation, consultation, planning, monitoring, and reporting procedures
- Conduct desktop research, benchmarking and other analyses as required to develop high quality project resources and develop a deep understanding of projects and stakeholders
- Manage project stakeholders and collaborate with the broader Office of the Provost team to ensure that project deliverables are produced, and milestones are met

**About You**
You will be a motivated self-starter, who shows initiative and takes ownership of your projects. You’ll have strong conceptual and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders. Rather than a highly structured approach to project management, your approach will be adaptive, creative and stakeholder focused. Your excellent judgement and ability to anticipate project and stakeholders' needs, will set you up for success in this role.

Ideally, you will further have:

- A tertiary qualification or equivalent experience
- Experience coordinating successful projects, preferably in a teaching and learning, higher education or public policy setting and using project management tools
- Exceptional writing skills, showing flexibility across a range of purposes, audiences and styles, as well as strong attention to detail
- Demonstrated ability to develop positive and productive relationships with colleagues at different levels of seniority
- Ability to critically evaluate information; reconcile conflicts; analyse, interpret and generate insights from data and use this information to guide decision-making
- To ensure the University continues to provide a safe environment for everyone, this position requires the incumbent to hold a current and valid Working with Children Check._

**This role requires current valid work rights for Australia.**

**Your new team - “Office of the Provost”**
Led by the Provost, the Office of the Provost supports achievement of the vision and objectives for education and community contained in the Advancing Melbourne strategy. The Office of the Provost portfolio sits alongside other divisions (Research, International, Strategy & Culture) within Chancellery.

**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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**Join Us**
- Project management experience (ideally in a teaching and learning, higher education or public policy setting), including development/im