Role Overview
Role type: Full Time; Continuing
Department: Chancellery – Museums and Collections
Salary: UOM 5 - $86,943 - $99,864 p.a. plus 17% super
Highlights: Work in leading university museums and galleries, blend sales excellence with event planning, join a collaborative, values‐led team. Apply now to combine your sales and event skills in a distinctive cultural setting with real impact. Investing in you – 17% superannuation and a benefits package including salary packaging, health and wellbeing programs, discounted services, and professional development opportunities.
Job Description
In this role, you will drive venue hire revenue, customer service excellence, and deliver high‐quality events across a unique venue portfolio inclusive of galleries and museums. You will partner with clients, colleagues and suppliers to create seamless experiences in distinctive cultural environments, while refining your sales, financial administration and event coordination skills and contributing to the University's cultural strategy.
What you will deliver
* Manage the inbound venue hire sales cycle, from enquiry and proposals, through to confirmed bookings and contracts.
* Coordinate seamless delivery of events, including client liaison, site inspections, calendar management and logistics planning.
* Develop and monitor financial processes, supporting accurate invoicing, payment tracking and revenue reporting.
* Maintain accurate records of enquiries, bookings and client data using event and space management systems – Elite.
* Collaborate with internal teams and suppliers to enhance client experience, operational efficiency and compliance across venues.
* Support marketing and business development activities including attending networking events and tradeshows, updating client‐facing materials and third‐party listings.
Who you are
* Bring demonstrated sales experience in events, venue hire or GLAM organisations.
* Plan and deliver events in complex, multi‐stakeholder environments with strong attention to operational detail.
* Manage invoicing, payment tracking and reconciliation for multiple events at once.
* Balance competing deadlines using effective organisational and time‐management skills in a fast‐paced environment.
* Build productive relationships with diverse clients, colleagues and external suppliers to achieve positive event outcomes.
* Use event management or CRM systems and contribute ideas to improve processes and client service.
Benefits
* Build future financial security with 17% superannuation.
* Supportive flexible work arrangements underpinned by a commitment to inclusion and well‐being.
* Career development opportunities, including access to a range of tailored programs such as Academic Women in Leadership and learning platforms including LinkedIn Learning.
* Progressive, considerate leave provisions to empower work‐life balance and well‐being, including parental leave, gender affirmation leave and cultural leave.
* Salary packaging and access to a range of discounted services including Bupa health insurance, and unique cultural and recreational benefits such as discounts for the Melbourne Theatre Company.
* Health and wellbeing services including a leading Employee Assistance Program.
Team
Museums and Collections bring together Buxton Contemporary, Science Gallery Melbourne and the Ian Potter Museum of Art. It also stewards the Grainger Museum and other cultural assets within a shared Cultural Commons vision. You will join the Operations team, working with colleagues who value collaboration and inclusion. Together, you support vibrant, commercially sustainable programs that enhance student experience and public engagement across the University.
Equal Opportunity
The University of Melbourne is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a child‐safe organisation. Diversity enriches our community, and we are committed to creating an inclusive and fair workplace where everyone is valued, respected, and empowered to succeed. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. Discover more about Diversity and Inclusion at UniMelb.
We are committed to a barrier‐free recruitment process and ongoing workplace support, providing adjustments throughout. We warmly encourage applications from people with disabilities. Learn more about how we support an accessible recruitment process.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Applicants: We aspire to be the University of choice for Indigenous Australians. Visit our Indigenous staff page to learn about our investment and support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff. Indigenous applicants are encouraged to connect with our Indigenous Employment & Development team at korin‐korin@unimelb.edu.au.
Applications Close
Thursday 11 June 2026 11:55pm Melbourne time zone.
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