Assistant Grants Officer (Awards)
Job No.: 681290
Location: 211 Wellington Road, Mulgrave
Employment Type: Part-time, fraction (0.6)
Duration: Fixed-term appointment until the end of the academic year 2025
Remuneration: Pro-rata of $83,424 - $95,825 pa HEW Level 5 (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
If you are a current Monash Master’s or PhD student and can work 3 days per week, the Monash Research Office has an exciting opportunity for you - Join the Awards team as an Assistant Grants Officer!
The MRO Awards team has a number of vacancies for part-time (0.6FTE), 1 year fixed-term positions as an Assistant Grants Officer. In this role you will be trained to follow existing business processes to provide a range of professional and high-quality post-award administrative services, including:
- Responding to enquiries via phone and email,
- Working in Pure and UniCRM
- Award set-up activities
- Drafting multi-institutional agreements (MIA’s),
- Processing variations to funding agreements
- Submitting progress and final reports.
Further, you will maintain service standards, including prompt issue resolution, data integrity and adherence to privacy, confidentiality and compliance requirements.
Ideal candidates will bring a strong educational background or substantial relevant skills and work experience. The role requires a tertiary qualification in a relevant field; or substantial relevant skills and work experience; or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training. Law students are particularly encouraged to apply.
About Monash University
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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.
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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
Please submit a current copy of your resume along with a cover letter in which you address how you meet 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 Michelle McMurtrie, Associate Director, +61 3 9905 8770
Position Description: Assistant Grants Officer (Awards)
Applications Close: Thursday 21st August 2025, 11:55pm AEDT
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