Director Of The Bachelor Of Design Program

The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne is the leading educational and research institution within the Asia-Pacific region engaging in scholarship centred on the comprehensive design and realisation of inhabited environments. With nearly 200 staff and around 3000 students, as well as a longstanding international reputation for excellence in built environment and urban research, it offers an undergraduate degree program enabling majors in architecture, landscape architecture, property, construction, and urban planning. The Faculty incorporates the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), which offers postgraduate courses in cognate subject areas.
Presently, the Faculty is seeking an accomplished professional to become the Director ofthe Bachelor of Design Program, ensuring sound academic leadership and the articulation of a distinct vision and strategy as the driver for the broad and continued success of the degree. Holding a variety of responsibilities, the Director is critical to planning, educational, student, marketing and recruitment functions, and liaises widely with a variety of external stakeholders to enhance the degree's profile and considerable industry standing.
Reporting to the Custodial Dean, the Director plays a key role in maintaining and enhancing the program's academic standards and supports best-practice teaching methods to ensure a consistent and high-quality student experience. As a scholar of considerable pedigree, the Director is vital to supporting Faculty staff in the development and delivery of the program, whilst also maintaining an active teaching role, including into the degree itself.
The successful candidate will possess a demonstrated record of success in university-based teaching and learning, a strong and active research profile or equivalent practice-based experience, as well as finely honed leadership and academic performance management skills. The ability to plan and deliver complex programs and services at both the strategic and operational level, along with effective interpersonal, communications, and conflict resolution skills will be essential to success in the role.
To discuss this opportunity in confidence, please contact Sanha Lee by phone on +61 3 9221 6220, or by email at .
For further information, or to submit an application, please visit quoting reference number 7210.
Applications close at midnight AEST, Friday 12th April.
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The University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings consistently placing us as Australia's leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and one of the world's top 50*.
Melbourne attracts the best and brightest students and researchers and, with a history of over 160 years, we occupy a special place at the heart of our city's cultural scene.
Melbourne is a leading research university, widely renowned for its teaching and the social and economic contributions it makes through knowledge transfer. The University's performance in international rankings puts it at the forefront of higher education in the Asia-Pacific and beyond.
Internationally, the University is consistently ranked among the leading universities in the world, with its international peers placing it in the top 20 worldwide, and employers placing it in the top 10. In the recent Times Higher Education rankings of the world's top 200 universities, Melbourne ranked top in Australia and 33 in the world.
Melbourne's international research pre-eminence was also acknowledged with a top 100 ranking in the Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings. Ranked No. 44 in 2015, the University has climbed steadily in the rankings since first appearing at No. 92 in 2003.
The Melbourne Model introduces undergraduate programs characterised by both breadth and depth, followed by a graduate professional degree, a research higher degree or entry directly into employment.
In 2008 Melbourne commenced offering six New Generation undergraduate degrees in Arts, Biomedicine, Commerce, Environments, Music and Science. The Melbourne Model also introduces a new graduate school experience to Australia, providing the best and brightest with a more focused, intense and professionally relevant degree in areas such as Law, Architecture, Teaching and Nursing. With the Melbourne curriculum now aligning the University with the world's top universities in Europe, North America and Asia, we enable our students to develop the skills and attributes required by employers all over the world.
More than 50,000 students from over 120 countries take courses in the University's 12 faculties and graduate schools.
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*Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 - 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015
Company info Telephone +61 (3) 8344 4000 Location
Parkville
Melbourne
Victoria
VIC 3010
Australia
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