**Job no**: 0057001
**Location**:Brisbane
**Role type**:Part time (0.4 FTE); Fixed-term for 3 years
**Faculty**:Faculty of Business and Economics
**Department/School**:Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
**Salary**:Level A - $97,558 - $104,717 p.a. plus 17% super
The University of Melbourne would like to acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campuses are situated, the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung Peoples, the Yorta Yorta Nation, the Dja Dja Wurrung People. We acknowledge that the land on which we meet and learn was the place of age-old ceremonies, of celebration, initiation and renewal, and that the local Aboriginal Peoples have had and continue to have a unique role in the life of these lands.
**About - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research**
The Melbourne Institute is a research-only department within the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. It is Australia's leading and longest standing research institute in the field of economics, undertaking cutting-edge research into key issues relevant to modern economic and social policy.
The Melbourne Institute has a core faculty of some 40 academics and academic specialists, a team of research staff that include expertise in data science and analytics, a team of professional/administrative staff that support the mission and operations of the department, honorary fellows and PhD students. Reflecting the standards of research excellence achieved at the Melbourne Institute, staff are expected to publish in internationally acclaimed peer reviewed journals and to lead the public debate on economic and social policy.
**About the Role**
The incumbent will be working on the Intensive Early Childhood Education and Care Research Project (IECECRP) which is being conducted by the University of Melbourne and Parkville Institute. The Parkville Institute is a registered charity established to support infants and young children living with significant family stress and social disadvantage to enter school as confident and successful learners who are developmentally and educationally equal to their peers. The Chief Investigators from the Melbourne Institute are A/Professor Yi-Ping Tseng and Nichola Coombs. The team will also be working closely with researchers from Parkville Institute lead by A/Professor Brigid Jordan and Dr Anne Kennedy, both of whom also hold honorary positions at the University of Melbourne.
The project is to conduct the evaluation of an intensive early childhood education and care program. Previous research conducted by University of Melbourne shows that an intensive ECEC program can significantly improve the developmental trajectories of children who participated in the intervention, compared to children in the control group (who did not receive the targeted intervention). This research project will test whether similar positive impacts can be found in multiple sites at different locations for children experiencing significant family stress. A very rich set of child development outcomes will be collected in this project to allow rigorous evaluation of children's developmental trajectories.
Responsibilities include:
- Coordinate all participant activity within the research trial Queensland sites.
- Conduct child development assessments and administer parent questionnaires.
- Work with Research team to acquit reporting, administration and accountability requirements for the study
- Manage measurement resources, including maintaining research equipment, ordering standardised assessments and updating questionnaires as appropriate
- Work with the research childcare centre manager to navigate the interface between the research and service industry and ensure the integrity of the research trial remains intact alongside the service industry interface
**About You**
You will bring a flexible approach and ability to work in a changing and dynamic work environment. Comfortable with flexible working arrangements. As well as a professional manner in dealing with staff. children, families and community partners and the ability to work effectively within a team. You will also hold highly developed interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills, time management skills and have a very high attention to detail.
You will also have:
- Tertiary qualifications in Psychology (Pearson Clinical Assessment User Lever A)
- Advanced qualifications in Infant and/or Child Mental Health
- Experience in conducting and interpreting standardised developmental assessments
- Proven skill and substantial clinical experience assessing and treating infants with psychosocial vulnerabilities and working with families with complex needs.
- A demonstrated understanding and capability for working with diversity
- Ability to function independently as a clinical researcher and to provide a full range of clinical and psychometric assessments.
- To ensure the University