Professional Experience Team Leader

• Work closely with internal stakeholders, industry partners, and community organisations to create valuable opportunities for students.
• Lead a dynamic team to plan and coordinate student placements, driving process improvements to enhance both staff and student experiences.
• Help shape the future workforce by ensuring students gain high-quality, real-world experience through placements.
• May 2025 start

The Professional Experience Team Leader plays a pivotal role in planning and coordinating Work Integrated Learning (WIL) and student placements, ensuring compliance with policies and procedures, and leading a dedicated team to enhance the student experience. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with internal and external stakeholders to align strategic and operational objectives and promote a culture of continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the Professional Experience team, ensuring high performance and a positive workplace culture, including overseeing the allocation of responsibilities, performance reviews, and development opportunities for team members.
• Coordinating the annual professional experience calendar, ensuring timely and compliant student placement, and providing operational support and advice to senior management and academic staff.
• Developing and redefining procedures to improve placement experiences, driving a culture of continuous improvement to enhance student engagement and success.
• Fostering and maintaining productive relationships with internal stakeholders, private providers, partners, and community organisations, to promote professional experience opportunities and negotiate placements.
• Ensuring compliance with regulatory and legislative requirements and providing recommendations and insights to senior management.

 You will inspire us with your:

• Leadership skills and ability to drive high performance and cultivate a positive workplace culture.
• Eye for detail and a strong working knowledge of policy and governance requirements related to student placements.
• Outstanding communication skills and ability to build relationships across teams and disciplines. 

This continuing position is full time at a HEW 7 Higher Education Level located at Gosford campus.

About our University

The University of Newcastle stands as a global leader distinguished by a commitment to equity and excellence. Our vision is to be a world-leading University for our regions and creating a better future for our regions and the globe. Underpinned by this vision and our values of excellence, equity, engagement and sustainability, the University of Newcastle’s Looking Ahead Strategic Plan 2020-2025 outlines the University’s commitment to delivering an exceptional student experience and serving our communities. 

For more information click here – Our Uni. 

About the Unit  

The Professional Experience Unit is situated in the Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor of the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing. The College is comprised of four Schools: School of Medicine and Public Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy and School of Health Sciences, and has a strong, clinical-oriented research profile, excellent teaching and innovative learning approaches, and a focus on professional experience

What we offer

In addition to working for a university that is breaking boundaries, discovering new ways of thinking and cementing a place as a global leader, we offer a range of benefits to our employees to ensure you balance your commitments, stay healthy and work effectively. 

These include: 

• The remuneration for this position is from $103,641-$ 116,596 p.a. + superannuation and is commensurate with skills and experience
• Flexible working arrangements (in line with the University’s Flexible Work Policy
• 17% super and salary packaging
• Additional University Holiday days, generous personal leave and parental leave, annual leave loading and additional purchased leave scheme
• Discounts in private health insurance, gym memberships, software, travel and more
• Wellbeing programs

Your next steps 

Please visit here for a guide on how to apply for a role. 

If viewing this on a job board other than the University's please click ‘Apply’ to reach the University's website, where a copy of the Position Description can be accessed. Please download a copy before commencing your application. 

Your application must include: 

• Your resume
• A cover letter outlining your motivation to apply for this opportunity
•  A statement addressing the Essential Criteria listed below demonstrating your qualifications and experience with examples.

1. Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills including the capacity to build relationships and an inter-disciplinary way of working.
2. Ability to generate a strong sense of team spirit, co-operation and collaboration within and across teams.
3. Demonstrated organisational skills including attention to detail and the ability to manage and organise workflows of a team to meet competing demands and adaptability to a range of workplace expectations and responsibilities.
4. Demonstrated high level of computer competency, including familiarity with corporate software systems such as SONIA, Blackboard, TRIM and NUSTAR.
5. Demonstrated knowledge of workplace obligations to, and experience in leading and cultivating workplace practices and behaviours that promote, support and maintain a safe, healthy, equitable, diverse and respectful workplace; including responding appropriately to adverse accidents, incidents, behaviours, issues, reports and the like.

 To ensure that your application receives full consideration, it's important to structure and address the selection criteria outlined in the application process. This helps us better understand your experience and suitability for the role. We appreciate your attention to this matter and look forward to reviewing your application.

Please upload your Cover Letter and response to the requested Criteria as one PDF document.

Your Cover Letter and Response to the Essential Criteria should not exceed 4 pages (approximately 2,000 words).

For specific position enquiries, please contact Ellen Parker, Senior Manager Education and Innovation on (02) 4033 9590 or via email ellen.parker@newcastle.edu.au

Having Difficulties? Please reach out to us: employment@newcastle.edu.au

Closing date: Sunday 16^th March 2025 at 11.59pm AEST

We are excited to be Looking Ahead with you

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