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Manager, Athena Swan

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Australia
December 12, 2024
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Overview:
  • Full-time, Fixed Term position until end February 2026
  • Salary Level HEW 9 + 17% Superannuation and Flexible Working Arrangements
  • Based at the Melbourne CBD campus, and hybrid ways of working

    • About You You are a strategic leader passionate about driving gender equity, diversity, and inclusion. With expertise in managing intersectional gender equality initiatives, you excel at building strong partnerships, fostering inclusion, and driving measurable outcomes through SMART frameworks.

    You bring experience in policy development, risk management, and leveraging demographic data to inform decisions and evaluate success. Your understanding of compliance requirements, including SAGE Athena Swan guidelines and related legislation, ensures alignment with best practices and external benchmarks.

    Skilled in managing complex projects and collaborating with stakeholders, you thrive in fostering meaningful change and creating a culture of inclusion that supports underrepresented groups.

    To be successful in this position, you'll have as a minimum:

  • Proven ability to provide clear direction, effective leadership, and ongoing coaching to team members and key stakeholders, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth.
  • Strong experience and demonstrated achievement in the design, delivery and evaluation of gender, equity, diversity and inclusion strategies and frameworks with an intersectional focus within a complex environment.
  • Ability to lead change and develop sustainable solutions that ensure an improved lived-experience and opportunity for the University's workforce, and that enhance the external standing of the University.
  • Strong experience in partnering with internal stakeholders, across the sector, and with government agencies, professional and peak bodies.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and undertake quantitative and qualitative research, consultation, and engagement to conceptualise, design and implement impactful initiatives at a system, leadership, team and/or individual level.
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including experience in consultation, coaching, group facilitation and presenting to leadership groups with a proven ability to influence, establish credibility and appropriately challenge across all leadership levels.
  • Exceptional project management, research, data handling, and analytical skills with a demonstrated ability to deliver outcomes on time, to agreed quality.
  • Proven ability to be agile, customer focused and build collaborative partnerships across diverse groups with all levels of leadership and stakeholders.

    • Please Note: Appointment to this position is subject to passing a Working with Children and National Police Check.

    About the Portfolio

    RMIT's Research and Innovation Portfolio supports researchers to help shape the world. The Portfolio has an engaged, energetic, talented, and collaborative team focused on enabling excellent research and innovation outcomes. With a global presence, community, and industry connections, we support cutting-edge research and careers that make a positive impact on communities.

    The Research and Innovation Portfolio supports researchers and graduate researchers with research partnerships, grants and research contracts, funding opportunities, capability development, research training, ethics and integrity, intellectual property, commercialisation, internships, communication, and profile.

    Click here to find out more about research and innovation at RMIT University and the Research and Innovation Portfolio.

    To Apply

    Please submit your CV and covering letter addressing your suitability for this position by clicking on the ‘ ' link at the top of this page.

    For further information about this position, please see the Position Description hyperlinked below or contact Professor Kay Latham via email [email protected].

    Position Description – Manager, Athena Swan

    Please note, if you are viewing this advert from an external site, please click ‘apply' and you will be redirected to RMIT's Jobs website to access the Position Description at the bottom of the page. Due to recent upgrades, position description links may not work on LinkedIn advertisements.

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    Applications Close:

    12 Dec 2024 11.59 pm

    RMIT is an equal opportunity employer committed to being a child safe organisation. We are dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Isla n der community.

    At RMIT, we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply to RMIT (including alternate formats of application forms) . To discuss adjustment requirements, please contact Dani, v ia [email protected] or visit our Careers page for more contact information - https: // www. rmit.edu.au/careers.

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