Senior Research Coordinator- CONNECT TBI
Job No.: 686703
Location: 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Employment Type: Part-time, fraction (0.6)
Duration: 12 month fixed-term appointment
Remuneration: Pro- Rata $110,527 - $121,227 pa HEW 7 plus 17% 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
This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of clinical research, data, and real-world impact.
As the Senior Research Coordinator, you will play a central role in delivering the nationally significant Connect-TBI project, a major initiative building a long-term data asset to improve outcomes for people with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury.
Based within the Pre-hospital, Emergency and Trauma (PET) Research Unit at our St Kilda Road Campus, you will work alongside leading clinicians, researchers, and health system partners across Australia. You will coordinate complex research activities, support governance and ethics processes, and ensure the seamless delivery of multi-site data collection and analysis.
This is a hands-on, high-impact role suited to someone who can translate strategy into execution, bring structure to complex projects, and confidently engage with senior stakeholders across clinical, academic and government environments.
In this role, you will:
- Coordinate Connect-TBI governance, planning and operational committees, ensuring effective decision-making and project progression
- Oversee the end-to-end delivery of research activities, ensuring compliance with protocols, timelines and regulatory requirements
- Lead day-to-day project operations, including multicentre data collection, data management and quality assurance
- Support and contribute to ethics submissions, governance documentation, grant applications and reporting
- Work closely with investigators and partners to drive collaboration across clinical sites and institutions
- Contribute to the development of digital tools, research outputs, publications and project materials
- Identify risks, inefficiencies and data issues, and implement practical, scalable solutions
- Maintain contemporary knowledge of clinical research methodologies, data systems and informatics practices
About You
You are a highly organised and proactive research or data professional who is comfortable operating in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
You bring:
- Demonstrated experience coordinating clinical research projects, trials, or large-scale data initiatives
- Strong project management capability, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver to deadlines
- Experience working with multicentre datasets, data linkage, or registry-based research
- A strong understanding of data quality, integrity and governance, with the ability to identify and resolve issues
- Experience supporting ethics and research governance processes
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to prepare high-quality reports and documentation
- Proven ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders across clinical, academic and external environments
You are someone who takes ownership, exercises sound judgement, and is motivated by work that improves health outcomes at scale.
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.
The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences is one of the largest and most impactful health faculties globally, and the PET Unit is at the forefront of trauma, emergency and pre-hospital research, delivering nationally significant registries and trials that shape healthcare systems.
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.
Some 20,000 staff work for Monash around the world. We have 95,000 students, four Australian campuses, and campuses in Malaysia and Indonesia. We also have a major presence in India and China, and a significant centre and research foundation in Italy.
In our short history, we have skyrocketed through global university rankings and established ourselves consistently among the world's best tertiary institutions. We rank in the world’s top-50 universities in rankings including the QS World University Rankings 2026.
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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
For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs'. Your application must address the Key Selection Criteria.
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.
This role is only available to candidates with current Australian work rights. This is a Melbourne based position that will require site attendance in line with the Univeristy EA. 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 Ornella Clavisi, Connect TBI Project Manager, ornella.clavisi@monash.edu, 0423953478
Position Description: Senior Research Coordinator
Applications Close: Sunday 3 May 2026 at 11:55pm AEDT
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