Jobs at The University of Melbourne

Lead and manage Indigenous employment initiatives university-wide, designing and improving programs that support recruitment, retention and career development. Partner with HR and leaders to embed culturally safe practices, grow participation and pathways, monitor performance, manage risks, and produce high-quality reports and briefings to inform strategy.

Supports research finance through financial accounting, revenue recognition, interest distribution, sponsor reporting, reconciliations, variance resolution, audited financial statements, and funding compliance. Provides expert advice on complex agreements and governance requirements, builds relationships with external funders and auditors, and leads continuous improvements to processes, controls, documentation, and Excel reporting templates.

The Head of School will provide strategic, academic and operational leadership for the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Responsibilities include advancing research and teaching excellence, developing strategy, managing resources, fostering an inclusive high-performing culture, supporting staff and students, building interdisciplinary and external partnerships, and strengthening the School’s international reputation and broader impact.

Lead world-class research and teaching in Equity and Trusts, secure competitive funding, design JD and postgraduate curriculum, supervise PhD students, mentor early-career scholars, provide collegial leadership, and engage with profession, government and community to advance the field and the school’s international reputation.

Coordinate marketing campaigns, communications content, and community events supporting rural health education, student engagement, partnerships, placements, and scholarships. Create accessible, culturally safe content across digital, social, web, and print channels; maintain online platforms; collaborate with students, clinicians, academics, health services, and community partners; and support marketing operations, reporting, event logistics, and concurrent project delivery.

Coordinates multiple mental health policy and systems research projects, including planning, delivery, budgets, reporting, ethics, governance, contracts, stakeholder engagement, and regulatory documentation. Supports grant applications, literature reviews, publications, presentations, and knowledge translation. Maintains project management systems and operational processes while collaborating with academic, government, service, and lived-experience partners to ensure research impact and compliance.

Leads complex strategic advisory projects supporting executive decision-making and university-wide transformation. Responsibilities include developing strategic proposals and business cases, conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis, facilitating stakeholder workshops, defining project scopes and success measures, and managing advisory workstreams, risks, dependencies, timelines, and outcomes. The role requires extensive consulting or strategic advisory experience, executive communication skills, advanced problem-solving ability, and capability to deliver complex projects in large organisations.

Provides technical and scientific support for poultry behaviour and welfare research. Responsibilities include detailed video coding and behavioural analysis, experimental design, data collection, trial coordination, research infrastructure management, compliance with animal ethics and safety requirements, and technical training for students and researchers.

Provide reception and administrative support in a busy university health clinic. Responsibilities include patient enquiries, check-in, appointment scheduling, billing, clinical records, confidentiality, infection control, OHS, accreditation support, and coordinating with clinicians to resolve issues and improve clinic operations.

Lead and manage the exam timetabling and data analytics team to produce and quality-assure exam schedules, build analytics and dashboards for forecasting and capacity planning, integrate timetabling with student systems, support alternative exam and digital delivery arrangements, and contribute to planning large-scale graduations and commencement events.

Support high-impact international partnerships (India & South Asia) through intelligence briefs, market analysis, business cases, regional strategy support, partnership development, business development for education programs, and coordination of visits, delegations, events and stakeholder engagement.

Develop and customise a cross-collection search portal using Ruby on Rails and Blacklight. Integrate with Apache Solr and a DAM platform, implement metadata ingestion, natural language search, visual exploration and recommendations, contribute to architecture, CI/CD, Agile backlog and sprint work, and support secure, scalable deployments and monitoring.

Lead and deliver Indigenous graduate research strategy, programs and flagship events to support Indigenous PhD candidates in health. Build partnerships, secure funding, provide academic support, and advise leadership to strengthen doctoral pathways and Indigenous research leadership.

Lead and mentor a research finance partnering team across faculties and institutes. Develop strategic finance frameworks, oversee planning, budgets, forecasts and monthly reporting, advise on funding proposals and compliance, identify sector trends, drive improvement projects, and champion data-driven approaches to ensure financial sustainability and support executive decision-making.

Design, build and maintain secure databases and data lakes; develop software to link pathogen, immune, clinical and epidemiological data; implement data integration and sharing workflows for AI/ML; liaise with governance and stakeholders; contribute to grants, presentations and supervision to support pandemic therapeutics research.

Lead neonatal research, clinical services and education across the University and hospital partnership. Drive internationally recognised research programs, secure funding, translate discoveries into clinical practice, build multidisciplinary collaborations, and provide exemplary neonatal clinical care and mentorship.

Lead clinical-academic program in obstetrics and gynaecology across the University of Melbourne and The Royal Women’s Hospital. Provide strategic leadership in research, clinical care and education; build internationally competitive research programs, mentor clinician-scientists, foster multidisciplinary collaborations, and drive translation of research to improve outcomes for women, babies and families.

Lead institutional readiness for Horizon Europe Pillar II by translating EU funding frameworks into strategy, building researcher capability, developing proposal pipelines, coordinating complex pre-award activity, identifying readiness gaps, and implementing tools and guidance to support compliant international consortia participation.

Provide expert solution-state NMR training and user support; manage, calibrate and maintain multi-user NMR instruments; develop new NMR methods and workflows; contribute to platform strategy, reporting, funding and community engagement while ensuring safe, compliant operations.

Lead and manage advanced solution‑phase NMR capabilities, provide expert user training and technical support, operate and maintain NMR instruments, develop new NMR methods and pulse sequences, collaborate on experimental design and publications, and contribute to grants, governance, reporting and safety for the Melbourne Magnetic Resonance platform.