Part time, continuing appointment – 0.7 FTE
Professional Level 8 Salary - $104,888 to $118,578 pa (pro rata)
Plus 17% superannuation and 6 weeks annual leave (pro rata)
Casuarina Campus

Utilise your research impact evaluation skills to track and promote research impact at Charles Darwin University (CDU)

About the Position
As a Research Impact Officer, you will help progress the University’s Research Impact Strategic Plan which includes three main aims:

1. Developing researcher capability in understanding ways to maximise research impact
2. Improving process and systems for collecting and tracking research impact, and
3. Articulating and rewarding research impact.

You will identify, develop and facilitate activities to build capacity across the university in planning, tracking, monitoring, evaluating and showcasing CDU’s research engagement and societal impact including helping researchers draft and finalise case studies.

About You
To be successful, you will require:

• Postgraduate qualifications or progress towards postgraduate qualifications and extensive relevant experience or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training, involving skills in research impact evaluation, project administration, stakeholder engagement, training development and facilitation.
• Demonstrated understanding of research impact principles and current national and international research impact assessment trends.
• Demonstrated experience in writing for a general audience i.e. public relations, marketing, journalism.
• Demonstrated experience in supporting researchers to collect and track research impact and/or preparing research impact case studies.
• Demonstrated experience in developing interactive learning opportunities and outreach services to academic stakeholders and in developing and maintaining internal process.
• Demonstrated experience in developing interactive and online learning opportunities and outreach services to academic stakeholders and in developing and maintaining internal process documentation.
• Demonstrated experience in problem solving and providing an informed judgment that displays initiative, with an ability to independently configure information to meet project requirements.
• Demonstrated excellent customer service, communication, interpersonal and presentation skills for effective liaison with external stakeholders and with staff at all levels within the University.
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team, and under limited direction in a corporate environment, including setting and achieving priorities and monitoring workflow in a busy environment with competing demands.
• Demonstrated flexibility and ability to thrive in a changing work environment.

To view the full position description please click the apply link to be directed to the vacancy on our CDU job site and then click on job attachments.

Remuneration
Appointment to this role will be at Professional Level 8. The base salary will be in the range of $104,888 to $118,578 per annum (pro rata). The total remuneration package will be in the range of $122,718 to $138,736 per annum (pro rata), including 17% superannuation.

What’s in it for you?

• An employer who values your contribution to building a bigger, better and stronger University
• Work with a University committed to changing people’s lives for the better through training, education and research
• Opportunities for professional development, paid study and career progression
• An enviable lifestyle in the spectacular Northern Territory
• 17% superannuation
• Up to six weeks of paid annual leave (dependent on work location)
• Up to 26 weeks of paid parental leave (primary care giver), in addition to government payments (eligibility criteria apply)
• Recognition of prior service with another Australian university / NT Government for Long Service Leave (recognition applied to qualifying period only)
• Ability to negotiate transfer of leave entitlements under the Public Employment (Mobility) Act 1989
• Free on-campus parking in designated areas
• Employee Assistance Program
• Salary Packaging opportunities

How to Apply
All applications must be received online via the ‘apply’ button and should include your resume and a cover letter outlining your interest in the role and relevant skills and experience.

For a confidential discussion about the position please contact Gail Power by email [email protected]

Adjustments can be made throughout the application and selection process, as well as during employment to support applicants and employees with disability. CDU’s Workplace Adjustment Policy and Procedure can be found at https://policies.cdu.edu.au/view-current.php?id=191&version=1. If you would like to discuss adjustments, please contact the People Services Team on 08 8946 7154 or email [email protected].

Diversity and Inclusion
At CDU we actively celebrate our diversity. We innovate, embrace new ideas, and act with courage and kindness. We’re about what we can give to the world rather than what we take, and we believe in the transformative power of education. We work hard to make sure every member of our University community feels they truly belong. Understanding that it is through our focus on our people and leveraging our differences that will make CDU the most connected University in Australia, we are striving to ensure that our culture and our community are inclusive of all our staff, students, and visitors. We are committed to maintaining a culture where everyone feels respected, safe, encouraged to speak up and supported in achieving their professional goals. Applications from First Nations people, women at all levels, culturally and racially marginalised people, people with disability, neurotypical and neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ people, people with family and caring responsibilities and people at all stages of their careers are welcomed.

You make CDU. And we want you to be exactly who you are.

Applications Close: Monday 17 March 2025