Professional Placement Officer

**Job no**: 575813
**Work type**: Part-time
**Location**: Melbourne - Burwood
**Categories**: Administration
- Based at our Melbourne, Burwood Campus (with the possibility to negotiate location)
- Part-time (0.6FTE) and fixed term to September 2026
- HEW 6 $96,276 - $103,971 + 17% Superannuation (pro rata, part time)

**Benefits for working with us**

At Deakin, we offer more than just a job — we offer a lifestyle. Across our campuses in Geelong, Melbourne, and regional Victoria, you’ll find everything you need to thrive: on-site childcare, gyms, medical centres, cafes, accessible public transport, and convenient parking. Enjoy flexible working arrangements that support your work-life balance, generous leave entitlements including extended parental leave and the option to purchase additional time off, plus a wide range of staff discounts on travel and more. Our health and wellbeing services, ongoing professional development opportunities, and inclusive, supportive culture make Deakin a place where you can grow — whether you're working remotely or immersed in the vibrant energy of campus life.

**Who are we?**

Deakin is a cutting-edge public university in Victoria, revolutionising education with 61,000 students across seven campuses: Melbourne Burwood, Geelong Waurn Ponds, Geelong Waterfront, Warrnambool, Deakin University Lancaster University Indonesia (DLI), GIFT City, India and our dynamic online Campus. We're proud to be a progressive and open-minded university, delivering the highest student satisfaction in Victoria and consistently ranked in the top 1% of the world's universities.

**As a Professional Placement Offer, you will**:

- Prioritise work and critical activities, evaluate progress, recognise barriers to achieving outcomes and find effective ways to deal with them.
- Proactively identify opportunities for improvement and take action and actively seek feedback from colleagues and stakeholders on things that are working well and areas for improvement.
- Act as a coach, work with team members to facilitate growth and development and proactively offer support, help and advice to others within and across teams.
- Actively seek information to better understand the customer’s perspective, follow through and deliver on promises, respond to feedback with openness and transparency and seek to identify ways to better service the customer.
- Build productive relationships with a diverse range of potential students or stakeholders and communicate with confidence using examples to increase understanding and support.

**To be successful, you’ll have**:

- A Degree with subsequent relevant experience; or
- Extensive experience and specialist knowledge or broad knowledge in technical or administrative fields; or
- An equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.

**Here's how to apply**:
Please submit your updated resume and a short cover letter outlining your skills.

For a copy of the position description, please see below:
PD - Professional Placement Officer.docx

**Applications for this position close on Sunday 17**th** August 2025 at 11.55pm.**

**Are You Ready?**

Deakin is a Victorian university with a global impact. We are an agile, dynamic, and innovative university committed to making a positive impact through our excellence in education, research and innovation and the contributions we make to the wider community.

We understand that our reputation has been built on the dedication and expertise of our staff and we offer a dynamic and diverse working environment with opportunities to grow and develop careers. We believe that a progressive, thriving culture will ensure that people choose to come, and stay at Deakin and contribute to our ongoing success.

**Advertised**: 01 Aug 2025 AUS Eastern Standard Time
**Applications close**: 17 Aug 2025 AUS Eastern Standard Time