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Associate Director, Research Ethics

University of Melbourne
  • Job no: 0049223
  • Work type: Continuing
  • Location: Parkville
  • Division/Faculty: Chief Operating Officer
  • Department/School: Research Innovation and Commercialisation
  • Role & Superannuation rate: Professional - Full time - 17% super
  • Salary: to be negotiated

Research, Innovation and Commercialisation (RIC)

RIC is a specialist team dedicated to enabling the University's research and enterprise mission working closely with our academics, professional colleagues, industry partners, funding agencies and government agencies.  We have a passion to see our academics and their collaboration partners succeed, achieve research excellence and translate their discoveries into real-world innovation and impact.  RIC operates University-wide across all ten Faculties and Chancellery. 

About the role

The Associate Director, Research Ethics is a new position created to lead and manage the animal ethics and human ethics functions within the Office of Research Ethics and Integrity (OREI) at The University of Melbourne. The position works closely with the Director, (OREI) and Associate Director, Research Quality and Governance (OREI), reporting to the Director.

This is a rare opportunity to oversee the development and continuous improvement of animal and human research ethics as a shared service. The aim of this service is to ensure the University’s commitment to the responsible conduct of research is effectively and professionally supported.  

The shared service represents a change in the delivery of ethics support, education and review. Key functions of the new service will include dedicated teams to support and deliver the various service offerings. In addition to providing outstanding leadership to the teams, you will proactively develop and implement innovative approaches to performance analysis, reporting and strategies to ensure a focus on service excellence and continuous improvement in service delivery.

Maintaining close working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders will be vital to your success in the role.  You will consult widely with the University of Melbourne research community to achieve high client satisfaction, work collaboratively with other support functions in the research portfolio, and effectively lead and manage staff resources. This is a fantastic opportunity to use your outstanding leadership and management skills to build and enhance the functions capacity to support educational programs and build capability in the ethics team and beyond.

About you

Overseeing a large team, your extensive leadership experience will enable you to build a strong and highly collaborative cohort and connect effectively with multiple external stakeholders. You will be a proactive change catalyst, confident in dealing with sensitive information and making high-stakes decisions.

We want you to succeed and envisage you will:

  • Have a postgraduate qualification and extensive experience working within a large, complex organisation and change environment
  • Have very well-developed leadership skills and an ability to communicate with influence and effectively lead a team through change
  • Be highly skilled at developing actionable and pragmatic solutions for risk management, policy and process
  • Be proactive in building and managing relationships with a range of stakeholders as well as a creative problem-solver and independent thinker
  • Have strong demonstrable experience in exercising initiative and judgement

Benefits

In return, this role offers multiple benefits in a large and prestigious organisation, such as a Salary Packaging scheme, flexible family friendly policies, providing generous leave and working conditions and a substantial discount to eligible staff and their immediate families in undertaking further studies at the University of Melbourne, just to name a few.

To find out what else is on offer in this culturally rich environment, please go to http://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/working/benefits  

On offer is a generous salary, an annual leave loading allowance and the choice of 17% superannuation.

Culture

The University is a vibrant campus. We have well-established clubs and networks giving the opportunity to engage and collaborate with other staff around the University. We strive to create an environment where staff and students promote culturally inclusive behaviour and activities, ensure cultural differences are heard and explored, and actively seek to learn from other cultures.

How to apply

Your application submitted should include a CV along with your responses against the selection criteria found in the Position Description for the role. Click on Apply Now.

Please note that previous applicants need not apply.

*For information to assist you with compiling short statements to answer the selection criteria/competencies, please go to http://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/search/info/selection-criteria

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