Job No.: 695338
Location: Clayton campus
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: Continuing appointment
Remuneration: $145,062 - $153,976 HEW 9 plus 17% employer superannuation
The Opportunity
Lead a specialist team supporting the safety and wellbeing of Monash staff and students impacted by complex and high-risk problem behaviour and mental health concerns. As Manager, Safer Community Unit, you will lead the case management function and provide expert oversight of serious and complex matters, including sexual harm, family violence, stalking, threats, assault, child safety concerns and mental health crises. You’ll lead a team of Case Specialists, oversee service delivery and ensure responses are evidence-based, trauma-informed, victim-centred and aligned with best practice, legislation and University policy.
This is an opportunity to make a significant impact across the Monash Group by strengthening capability, service quality and operational excellence. You’ll manage high risk cases, provide expert advice to senior leaders, lead complex case meetings and strategic responses, and use data, trends, case reviews and research to drive service innovation and continuous improvement. You’ll also build strong relationships with internal and external partners, including Victoria Police and specialist support services, to support effective risk management and outcomes.
About You
As the successful candidate, you’ll bring postgraduate qualifications or equivalent relevant experience, together with extensive experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing complex behavioural risk and mental health presentations. You’ll have strong expertise in risk and threat assessment and management, including matters involving sexual harm, family violence and child safety, as well as clinical assessment and management of complex mental health risks.
You’ll be a confident and highly experienced leader with exceptional judgement, communication and relationship management skills, able to navigate sensitive and complex issues with professionalism and care. You’ll bring strong strategic and analytical capability, a commitment to trauma-informed, victim-centred and culturally safe practice, and the ability to drive continuous improvement and deliver high-quality services in a complex organisational environment.
About Monash University
At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground breaking – a place where great things happen.
We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.
Some 20,000 staff work for Monash around the world. We have 95,000 students, four Australian campuses, and campuses in Malaysia and Indonesia. We also have a major presence in India and China, and a significant centre and research foundation in Italy.
In our short history, we have skyrocketed through global university rankings and established ourselves consistently among the world's best tertiary institutions. We rank in the world’s top-50 universities in rankings including the QS World University Rankings 2026.
Today, we have the momentum to create the future we need for generations to come. Accelerate your change here.
Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents
To Apply
For instructions on how to apply, please refer to ' How to apply for Monash Jobs'. Your application must address the Key Selection Criteria.
Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr-recruitment@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.
Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.
Enquiries: Dr Elli Darwinkel, Director, Safety & Support Services, elli.darwinkel@monash.edu
Applications Close: Sunday 6th of September 2026, 11:55pm AEST
Monash University is Australia’s largest and most international university. Its extensive educational offering, delivered via our 10 faculties, includes undergraduate, postgraduate and research courses. Monash is a research-intensive university, known for some significant and lasting discoveries that have delivered impact beyond the academic community.
The university is home to a range of world-leading facilities and technologies, giving it wide-ranging capabilities across many fields, sectors and industries. Monash works with a variety of industry, government and community groups, allowing its researchers to share their discoveries with the world.
Monash is a truly global institution, with five Australian campuses, a campus in Malaysia, a joint graduate school in China, a learning centre in Italy, and a research centre in India. At Monash, cultural experiences are lived, not described.
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