Associate Professor OR Professor, Social Impact OR Principal Industry Fellow

• Role within the Centre for Social Impact, School of Business, Law & Entrepreneurship
• Ongoing position at our Hawthorn campus
• Academic Level D or E salary and benefits with flexible working options

About the Role
In this leadership position, you will be focused on providing outstanding and energetic leadership in research, teaching and other professional activities within the Centre for Social Impact and the School. Working with other senior staff, the position will foster a culture of innovation and excellence and advance cross-disciplinary programs relevant to social impact in the School and more broadly the University.

You will be required to attract significant external research funding in a field relevant to one or more of:

• Social entrepreneurship and social finance
• Measuring and communicating social impact
• Community services innovation
• Outcomes-based funding and commissioning
• Employment and employment service system reform for marginalised groups.

You will lead research teams in generating research income, undertaking research, and producing high quality knowledge translation products of value to both academic and industry/sector partners.

For more information and details around the different levels of appointment, please see the Position Descriptions attached at the bottom of the page.

About You 
To be suitable for this role you will need to have experience in the below key accountabilities: 

• A strong record of initiating, obtaining and managing competitive external research income through competitive grants/income and/or industry collaboration 
• Demonstrated links with relevant industries, organisations and research communities and demonstrated competence in working with relevant professions in industry and government
• Demonstrated high interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to liaise with a wide variety of academics, work within a consultative, team environment, including an ability to work effectively with external members of the School, University and relevant professions in industry and government.

Qualifications

• Relevant qualifications listed in the Position Description

To Apply
Please submit your CV and cover letter addressing your suitability for this position. 

To review the Position Description and to apply, please scroll down to the bottom of the page.

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For more information about this role, please contact Eve at [email protected]

Please Note: Appointment to this position is subject to passing a Working with Children Check.

If you are experiencing technical difficulties with your application, please contact the Swinburne Talent Acquisition Team on [email protected] .

Applications Close: Sunday February 4th at 11PM

Swinburne offers flexible working options, leave and parenting/carer policies to support work life balance.

Equity and Diversity
Swinburne is a large and culturally diverse organisation and we are proud of our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion through key initiatives.  For further information on all our initiatives visit our Equity & Diversity website.

We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

We are committed to making the recruitment process fair and equitable for all our candidates. If you have specific accessibility or support requirements please contact [email protected]

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Applicants
We welcome and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. 

For any support please contact [email protected] or for more information on our Indigenous strategies please follow the link to our RAP Reconciliation Action Plan .

Victoria’s Commitment to Action: Improving international student employment outcomes
As a signatory to Victoria’s Commitment to Action , Swinburne seeks to remove barriers to international graduate employment. We welcome and encourage applications from international graduates.  

We are a 2023 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.

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