Senior Academic Director, Learning and Teaching
Job No.: 680070
Location: Clayton campus
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: Continuing appointment
Remuneration: Level E - A competitive remuneration package will apply
- 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
As the Senior Academic Director, Learning and Teaching, you’ll be at the heart of educational innovation, driving excellence across the University. This is your opportunity to provide visionary academic leadership, guiding strategic education initiatives that elevate the student academic experience and shaping world-class professional development programs within the Monash Education Academy to support teaching and learning. You’ll be overseeing teams that enhance learning and teaching, and ensure that quality assurance mechanisms are leveraged to create meaningful improvements.
In this pivotal role, you’ll work closely with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) to lead the implementation and delivery of key programs. You will foster partnerships across the portfolio, with faculties, campuses, and academic and professional staff both within and beyond the University. Your expertise in education, coupled with a strong track record in educational leadership, will empower you to advance education practices and drive impact that fuels an inspiring education for students across Monash University. This is a position for a forward-thinking leader who thrives on shaping strategy and fostering academic excellence.
To be successful in this role, you will bring:
- Proven expertise in educational leadership, with an international reputation for driving improvements in student learning outcomes and academic excellence
- Extensive experience in leading strategic education projects, developing frameworks for evaluation, and shaping institutional learning and teaching priorities
- Strong ability to mentor and lead high performing teams to deliver excellence in professional development, education development and education technologies
- Deep expertise in digital learning, ensuring a relevant, strategically aligned suite of digital learning products and platforms are widely adopted and used effectively
- Commitment to advancing the scholarship of teaching and learning, career pathways for educators and policy development
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, enabling strong and constructive partnerships across faculties, campuses, and external education communities
If you’re an experienced leader and educator, with a passion for innovation and the ability to lead transformative educational programs, this role is your chance to make a lasting impact. Your leadership will ensure Monash University continues to offer a distinctive, consistent, and strong academic experience for students. Join us, and be part of a team that shapes the future of learning and teaching at one of the world’s leading Universities!
About Monash University
At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground-breaking – a place where great things happen.
We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.
Together with our commitment to academic freedom, you will have access to quality research facilities, infrastructure, world-class teaching spaces, and international collaboration opportunities.
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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
While we don't require you to address the Key Selection Criteria as a separate document, we do ask that in addition to your CV, you submit a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) that addresses:
1. Your motivation for applying for this role
2. How your skills and experience align with the Key Selection Criteria
For instructions on how to apply, please refer to
'How to apply for Monash Jobs'.
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.edu 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 Naomi Barmakov, Senior Recruitment Consultant, naomi.barmakov@monash.edu
Position Description: Senior Academic Director, Learning and Teaching
Applications Close: Sunday 21 June 2025, 11:55pm AEST
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