DEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLOR (RESEARCH and INNOVATION) Applications Close: 18 June 2018
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INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES FOR THE POSITION OF DEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLOR (RESEARCH AND INNOVATION) Applications close: 18 June 2018 Office of the Vice-Chancellor CONTENTS Message from the Vice-Chancellor and Provost 1 The University 3 Research and Innovation Portfolio 7 Role Statement 9 Selection Criteria 10 How to Apply 11 Why choose Canberra? 13 b Recruitment Services | Human Resources, ANU MESSAGE FROM THE VICE-CHANCELLOR AND PROVOST The Australian National University (ANU) is unique in Australia. Ranked in the world top 20 by QS, and based in our capital city, ANU is a charting a new strategic course to redefine the role of a contemporary national university. The Australian National University (ANU) occupies a special our engagement with public policy and, most prominently, our position in Australia. While located in Australia’s capital, the influential research, we will prepare Australia for the challenges University sits alongside the best in the world in terms of its and opportunities of the twenty-first century. research output and the educational experience it offers to The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation) plays students (Ranked in top 20 globally in 2018 QS World University a vital role in realising this vision. The position will oversee Rankings). Since its establishment in 1946 as part of Australia’s the University’s research priorities and strategies to improve post-war nation-building effort, ANU’s ground-breaking research performance and impact. We are looking for an exceptional has changed the world and our understanding of Australia’s leader who can collaborate with other universities and sectors, place in it. Five of the eight Nobel Prizes awarded for work diversify our income sources and build commercialisation undertaken in Australia went to ANU researchers, including to opportunities for our research. As part of the University’s our Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt. More broadly, our Executive Leadership, you will also contribute to the broader expertise has influenced policy in Australia and across the Asia strategic direction of ANU and shape its distinctive role as a Pacific region. national institution and world-class university. The pursuit of excellence underpins everything we do – from our If you are a researcher and university leader of distinction, and breakthrough research, to our innovative industry partnerships, want to be a part of shaping the future at Australia’s national to the transformative education we provide to the world’s university, we would welcome your application. future leaders. This excellence is encapsulated in our five-year Strategic Plan, which makes clear our commitment to world- leading research that will have impact. Through our teaching, Professor Brian P. Schmidt AC FAA FRS Professor Michael Calford Vice-Chancellor and President Provost The Australian National University The Australian National University 1 Recruitment Services | Human Resources, ANU The Australian National University is like no other university. Established in 1946 as a nation-building institution, ANU has a distinct national and global mission, and a reputation that places it among the finest universities in the world. 2 Recruitment Services | Human Resources, ANU THE UNIVERSITY The Australian National University (ANU) is one of the world’s foremost research universities. Distinguished by its relentless pursuit of excellence, the University attracts leading academics and outstanding students from Australia and around the world. Further information about ANU can be found at: http://www.anu.edu.au/about. History Research-intensive education The University was established by the Commonwealth As the specially-chartered national university, the University Parliament in 1946 specifically to lead the development of the conducts research at the highest levels in all of its colleges, and intellectual capacity of the nation through research and research offers a unique research-led education to undergraduate and training in line with the best international standards. It is the postgraduate students as well as postdoctoral fellows. only Australian university established by a Commonwealth Act The University advances the national intellectual and creative of Parliament. In 1960, the University accepted responsibility capacity in three key ways: for undergraduate education along with an expectation that the highest standards of education would be achieved. 1. Through broad-based research and research-intensive education in the disciplines fundamental to all knowledge: Scale the humanities, the sciences and the social sciences, 2. By supporting research and research-intensive education in The University has 4,300 staff, 10,286 undergraduates and a spectrum of professional disciplines, and 6,925 postgraduate students. Its annual revenue exceeds $1.0 billion and consolidated assets are worth $2.5 billion 3. By studying Australia in its various contexts. It is the aim of the University to achieve its objectives by creating Partnerships an inspirational working environment for all its staff,students and visitors. The University has strong links with leading research institutions In each of its endeavours, the University strives to achieve at the in Australia and overseas. It is a founding member of the levels of the world’s great universities. International Alliance of Research Universities, a co-operative network of 10 eminent international research-intensive universities which includes: Location > University of Cambridge The University campus has over 200 buildings and occupies > University of Oxford 145 hectares adjacent to the city centre of Canberra. The > University of California, Berkeley University also has a number of smaller campuses: > Yale University > Mount Stromlo Observatory (west of Canberra) > Peking University > Siding Spring Observatory (near Coonabarabran, western > National University of Singapore New South Wales) > University of Tokyo > North Australia Research Unit (Darwin, Northern Territory) > University of Copenhagen > Kioloa (coastal campus near Bawley Point, on the New South Wales South Coast) > ETH Zurich > ANU Medical School – The Canberra Hospital campus > ANU Medical School – Calvary Hospital > Health Facilities in South East New South Wales 3 Recruitment Services | Human Resources, ANU UNIVERSITY COLLEGES ANU has seven colleges, each made up of the research and education schools and centres that contribute to the various broad disciplines. The ANU Colleges link research and teaching at undergraduate, postgraduate and higher degree levels. They undertake world-class research, and provide education programs at the highest standards. The University recognises the need to strengthen strategic planning, align administrative support with these plans and ensure consistency of policy and procedure. The aim of the college structure is to promote and formalise cooperation among the different contributors to disciplines in ANU and to remove barriers in their path. anu.edu.au/admin/ANUColleges/index.php ANU College of Asia & the Pacific economics, finance, international business, management, marketing and statistics. It endeavours to do this through the The ANU College of Asia and the Pacific (CAP) hosts the largest provision of a range of undergraduate and graduate programs, assembly of scholars dedicated to working on Asia and the and through its research, publications and contributions to the Pacific in the English-speaking world. Organisationally the College associated professions, commerce, industry and government. comprises three large Schools - the School of Culture, History » cbe.anu.edu.au and Language (CHL); the School of International, Political and Strategic Studies (IPS); and the Crawford School of Public Policy - and two Research Centres: the Regulatory Institutions Network ANU College of Engineering & (RegNet) and the Australian Centre on China in the World. Computer Science » asiapacific.anu.edu.au The ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) comprises the Research School of Engineering and the ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences Research School of Computer Science. It offers undergraduate degrees in engineering, information technology and computer The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) is the science along with masters and doctoral postgraduate research and education college for the broad disciplines of the programs. The College undertakes basic and applied research creative arts, humanities and the social sciences. The College in information and communications technologies, materials and has two research schools and an Institute – a Research School manufacturing, formal methods and logic, machine learning and of Social Sciences; a Research School of Humanities and the vision, robotics and energy systems. Arts; and the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute – that cover the main disciplines to deliver leading » cecs.anu.edu.au research and degree programs. » cass.anu.edu.au ANU College of Law The ANU College of Law (CoL) is Australia’s national law school, ANU College of Science committed to legal education and research at the highest level, and to striving for continuous improvement in the law for the The College consists of the Research Schools of Physics benefit of national and international communities. The College and Engineering, Earth Sciences, Chemistry, Astronomy offers LLB and LLB (Graduate) degrees, a Graduate Diploma in and Astrophysics, and Biology, plus the Fenner School of Legal Practice through the