Address- Flexible location
- Part-time (22.05 hours per week) and fixed term to December 2025
- HEW 7 $97,940 - $107,842 + 17% Superannuation (pro rata, part time)
Why work with us?
At Deakin you will have access to benefits such as a variety of leave options including generous parental leave and the ability to purchase additional leave; flexible working arrangements to help manage your work-life balance; ongoing learning and development opportunities to grow your career; an inclusive and supportive culture and environment to work in, both online and on campus.
Who are we?
Deakin is a cutting-edge public university in Victoria, revolutionising education with 61,000 students across five campuses: Melbourne Burwood, Geelong Waurn Ponds, Geelong Waterfront, Warrnambool, 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.
The Sustainable Health Network (SHN) delivers research, education and partnerships relating to the overlapping themes of enabling a sustainable world and improving health and wellbeing. Our priorities closely align to global and local mandates for change including the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
The SHN is a trusted leader in generating knowledge and translating evidence to real world solutions with a multi-disciplinary, co-designed and systems approach to Sustainable Health.
As a Project Coordinator, Sustainable Health Network, you will:
- Manage all operational aspects of the SHN, ensuring co-ordination of meetings, collaborative project activities, interdependencies across projects and staff working across these projects, and achievement of key milestones.
- Collaborate closely with leads of sub-streams of SHN.
- Work closely with SHN researchers, to ensure successful delivery of core SHN research activities.
- Support and co-ordinate grant funded SHN projects- providing support with ethics proposals and grant submissions, as well as providing project management support to funded SHN projects.
- Represent SHN at faculty and university-wide research meetings of relevance to the SHN to remain up to date on research policies, support structures and make appropriate contribution on behalf of SHN.
To be successful, you’ll have:
- A degree in health-related discipline.
- Experience in operational and/or project management in a research environment.
- Experience in coordinating multidisciplinary, cross institution and cross sector projects
- Understanding of funding context in the health sector.
- Demonstrated ability to work within organisational systems and processes including working on projects that involve universities and health care settings such as hospitals.
Here's how to apply:
Please submit your updated resume and a short cover letter outlining your skills and experience.
For a confidential discussion regarding this role, please contact Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Associate Dean, Research on 03 9251 7***
For a copy of the position description, please see below:
PD - Project Coordinator, Sustainable Health Network 556489.pdf
Applications for this position close on Sunday 16 June.
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.
We value diversity and aim to build an inclusive environment that champions, embraces and respects differences. We support and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people of all abilities, cultures, sexual orientation, and genders.
