Role & Superannuation rate: Professional – Part time – 17% super
Founded in 1853, the University of Melbourne is Australia’s #1 university and is consistently ranked amongst the leading universities in the world. We are proud of our people, our commitment to research and teaching excellence, and our global engagement.
About the Melbourne Law School
www.law.unimelb.edu.au
Melbourne Law School is Australia’s first all-graduate law faculty. Melbourne Law School was the first faculty in Australia to teach law and awarded this country’s first law degrees. The Law School is now fully graduate with its Juris Doctor for admission to practice recognised as a high-level qualification in Australia and beyond. Coupled with the unrivalled excellence of the Melbourne Law Masters and its excellent Research Higher Degree programs, the Law School offers a unique opportunity for the integration of scholarship and teaching.
Its faculty is a vibrant community of creative scholars, committed to a highly collegial, research-intensive institutional life. The Law School has particular strengths in comparative analysis. It aims to integrate teaching with research and engagement activities and to engage with local, national and global communities.
The Law School is a single department faculty located in a custom designed building in University Square. The Law School has approximately 2,200 graduate students (including JD, Melbourne Law Masters and Research High Degrees).
About the Role
This role is positioned with the Legal Academic Skills Centre at MLS which supports JD, Masters, and PhD students with resources and programs designed to foster skill development. The LASC takes a coaching approach and grounds all programs and resources in the knowledge that everyone can improve their skills throughout their studies and professional lives. The legal research advisor will work closely with academic and professional staff, particularly the Director of the LASC and law librarian colleagues, and play an important role in the design and delivery of legal research workshops as well as in the provision of student support and academic enrichment related to research skills.
In a typical week at work, you may:
- Utilise legal research skills pedagogy and a variety of teaching methods, design and deliver workshops, and present short courses and group tutorials.
- Review and develop high quality print and online research and review materials and advice for law students.
- Work with academic and Law Library staff to monitor, review and evaluate research skills programs and develop strategies for continual improvement.
- Provide customised legal research support to Melbourne Law School students.
About You
You will initiate and build effective relationships with colleagues and students. You are a strong team player who thrives in working collaboratively and are motivated to share your knowledge and skills.
Ideally, you will further have:
- A legal qualification.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver effective legal research skills programs within a tertiary environment.
- Depth of knowledge and skills for learning and teaching in higher education, such as pedagogy, learning design and digital learning.
- Demonstrated experience in and capacity to engage with new technologies in teaching and learning environments.
- Sound organisational and time management skills, including the ability to set priorities and perform well under pressure.
Benefits of Working with Us
In addition to having the opportunity to grow and be challenged, and to be part of a vibrant campus life, our people enjoy a range of rewarding benefits:
- Flexible working arrangements and generous personal, parental and cultural leave
- Competitive remuneration, 17% super, salary packaging and leave loading
- Free and subsidised health and wellbeing services, and access to fitness and cultural clubs
- Discounts on a wide range of products and services including Myki cards and Qantas Club
- Career development opportunities and 25% off graduate courses for staff and their immediate families
To find out more, please visit https://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/staff-benefits.
Be Yourself
At UoM, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions that each person brings to our community, and we encourage and celebrate diversity. Indigenous Australians, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, females, people of all ages and culturally diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply for our roles. Our aim is to create a workforce that reflects the community in which we live.
Join Us!
If you feel this role is right for you, please submit your application including a brief cover letter, your resume and your responses against the selection criteria* (found in the ) for the role.
- For information to help you with compiling short statements to answer the selection criteria and competencies, please go to http://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/selection-criteria
Should you require any reasonable adjustments with the recruitment process, please contact the Talent Acquisition team at [email protected].
Due to the impacts of COVID-19, we are currently prioritising applications with current valid working rights in Australia and candidates who are not affected by travel restrictions. Please see the latest updates to Australia’s immigration and border arrangements: https://covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au/
