Director, Oceanography Researcher Development

UNSW; Milano; On-site; EUR 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

17% Superannuation

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Job summary

UNSW in Sydney, Australia, invites applicants for the Graduate Director role to lead an integrated researcher development program across five partner universities, coordinating PhD students, early career researchers and postdocs. You will foster mentoring, professional development and collaborative networks across disciplines and institutions.

The role requires a PhD in a related field, strong leadership, and a record of mentoring and securing funding.

Qualifications

• A PhD in a related discipline, and/or relevant work experience.
• Proven commitment to proactively keeping up to date with discipline knowledge and developments.
• Demonstrated experience in providing mentorship and professional development for HDR students and early career researchers at scale.
• A track record of collegial leadership and a capacity to build and maintain effective collaborative partnerships within and external to the Centre to achieve the mission and objectives of the Centre of Excellence.
• Proven influencing and communication skills to work with and motivate diverse groups of people, both within and outside the University, to achieve agreed goals.
• Experience implementing educational technologies and online delivery methods.
• Evidence of teaching effectiveness and passion for educational excellence and fostering this in others.
• Demonstrated success in initiating curriculum development and improvement.
• Demonstrated experience with industry or work-integrated learning.
• Evidence of ability to support and inspire students from diverse backgrounds and support student equity diversity and inclusion initiatives.
• Demonstrated track record in research with outcomes of high quality and high impact with clear evidence of the desire and ability to continually achieve research excellence as well as the capacity for research leadership.
• Experience in successfully recruiting and supervising high calibre students.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team, collaborate across disciplines and build effective relationships.
• Evidence of highly developed interpersonal and organisational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to interact with the profession and industry and attract funding for learning and teaching initiatives. An understanding of and commitment to UNSW’s aims, objectives and values in action, together with relevant policies and guidelines.
• Knowledge of health and safety responsibilities and commitment to attending relevant health and safety training.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop and implement the Centre’s inter-disciplinary Researcher Development Program in Oceanography. This program includes fundamental scientific research and communication skills, professional development, mentoring and leadership opportunities and will involve all Centre researchers.
• Provide advice and mentoring to students and early career researchers in the Centre of Excellence.
• Design and develop learning activities and resources using a range of suitable approaches and learning environments for post-graduate students and early career researchers.
• Maintain and develop links within the discipline industry and profession (e.g. contribute to professional development activities).
• Attract quality research students by nurturing and developing an interest and awareness of research in prospective students, research students and postdoctoral fellows.
• Conceptualise, coordinate and run a suite of training and development opportunities for students and early career researchers including scientific winter schools, writing workshops, technical training sessions and sessions that address professional and personal development.
• Establish a research performance culture that fosters and develops research students in order to maintain high PhD completion rates and employment opportunities.
• Develop strategies to recruit and retain students and researchers from under-represented groups.
• Work in collaboration with enrolling institutions to identify student internships and other work integrated learning opportunities for graduate students in the Centre.
• Work collaboratively to identify and apply for additional funding that benefits the Centre of Excellence and the career progression of the Centre’s HDR and ECR cohorts.
• Make a positive contribution by leading Centre meetings and seminars and be a member of Centre committees as required.
• Make independent contributions to research that have a significant impact in their field of expertise and create a nationally recognised research track record.
• Undertake independent research in discipline or related area (as per the norms of the discipline), making an independent contribution through professional practice and expertise.
• Develop research groups in area of specialist expertise and research methods that are appropriate to the discipline.
• Attract peer recognition and establish research network/s (based on the norms of the discipline) at national level.
• Obtain research income from nationally competitive research grants (and/or research fellowships) and research end-users as a member or leader, at or above the level that is relevant to the discipline in leading universities.
• Mentor and guide students, groups, and colleagues; supervise HDRs to timely completion as primary supervisor; and contribute to HDR review panels.
• Align with and actively demonstrate the Code of Conduct and Values
• Cooperate with all health and safety policies and procedures of the university and take all reasonable care to ensure that your actions or omissions do not impact on the health and safety of yourself or others.

Job description

UNSW in Sydney, Australia, invites applicants for the Graduate Director role to lead an integrated researcher development program across five partner universities, coordinating PhD students, early career researchers and postdocs. You will foster mentoring, professional development and collaborative networks across disciplines and institutions.

The role requires a PhD in a related field, strong leadership, and a record of mentoring and securing funding.