Senior Project Coordinator

Senior Project Coordinator

Job No.: 698681

Location: Clayton campus

Employment Type: Full-time

Duration: 12 months fixed-term appointment

Remuneration: $110,527 - $121,227 pa HEW Level 07 (plus 17% employer superannuation)

• Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University
• Join our inclusive, collaborative community
• Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them

The Opportunity

Monash University is one of Australia's leading research-intensive universities, and the projects shaping its future need sharp, experienced coordination behind them. Based at the Clayton campus, this Senior Project Coordinator role sits within the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC), a world leader in injury prevention research and training.

This role presents a genuine opportunity to drive operational support, post-award project delivery, and graduate research administration within a transdisciplinary research centre dedicated to safety science and injury prevention.  Working as part of a collaborative professional team, and closely with research staff, you will act as a key liaison point and subject matter expert across project delivery, graduate research administration, and executive operations. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Facilitating post-award project coordination across research teams including contract administration, project invoicing and budgets, maintaining project records in Pure and coordinating project meetings, agendas, and minutes.
• Maintaining central document repositories, project databases, and external communication channels.
• Coordinating graduate research student administration end-to-end, providing procedural advice, managing PhD milestone tracking, and supporting new candidature enquiries.
• Coordinating delivery of Professional Development Education events and programs, and assisting with unit administration.
• Providing high-level executive administrative support to the Director and assisting with day-to-day office operations.

What you'll bring:

• High-level project management skills with a proven track record of successfully supporting projects to completion within agreed standards, timeframes, and budgets.
• Highly developed planning and organisational skills, with experience working to deadlines across multiple teams.
• Strong financial literacy and analytical skills, with experience managing budgets and interpreting project data.
• Highly developed relationship management and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively and gain cooperation across varied stakeholder groups.
• Knowledge of (or the ability to quickly develop expertise in) graduate research processes, university policies, and database management systems.

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Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.

To Apply

For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs'.

Please upload a recent CV along with a cover letter addressing the following four Key Selection Criteria areas found in the attached Position Description:

• KSC2 - Project Management skills
• KSC3 - Planning and organisation skills
• KSC6 - Mathematical and financial literacy skills
• KSC7 - University processes and graduate research knowledge

Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at

hr-recruitment@monash.ed

in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.

Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.

Enquiries: Ms Jess Fimmel, Operations Manager, +61 3 990 51839

Position Description: Senior Project Coordinator

Applications Close: Thursday 22 October, 11:55pm AEDT

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