Senior Research Fellow - SPRINT Sari
Job No.: 692434
Location: 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Employment Type: Full time
Duration: 12 month fixed-term appointment
Remuneration: $150,841 - $173,931 pa Level C plus 17% superannuation
- Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University
- Join our inclusive, collaborative community
- Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them
The Opportunity
An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced clinician researcher, epidemiologist or critical care researcher to join the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC) within Monash University’s School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Working at the forefront of respiratory surveillance and intensive care research, you will play a key leadership role in the nationally significant SPRINT-SARI Australia program.
SPRINT-SARI Australia delivers near real-time surveillance of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) patients admitted to intensive care units across Australia, providing highly granular national data that informs pandemic preparedness, public health response and critical care decision-making. The program contributes directly to national surveillance initiatives and supports key Australian Government public health priorities.
As Senior Research Fellow, you will make an independent and influential contribution to respiratory infection and critical care research while helping shape the future direction of large-scale surveillance and research initiatives. Embedded within ANZIC-RC at the Alfred Hospital precinct, you will collaborate with leading clinicians, researchers, government stakeholders and ICU networks across Australia and New Zealand.
This role offers the opportunity to:
- Lead and contribute to nationally impactful research projects
- Work with large-scale ICU surveillance datasets and public health initiatives
- Drive clinical trial methodology, research design and data interpretation
- Develop competitive grant applications and high-impact publications
- Strengthen national and international research collaborations
- Contribute to research leadership and capability building within a globally recognised research environment
About You
You are an established researcher with expertise in infectious diseases, sepsis, critical care, emergency medicine, epidemiology or a closely related discipline. You bring a strong publication track record, experience working with complex clinical or registry datasets, and the ability to lead collaborative research initiatives in multidisciplinary environments.
You will also demonstrate:
- A doctoral qualification in a relevant discipline
- A strong record of peer-reviewed publications and research outputs
- Success in securing external research funding or contributing to competitive grant applications
- Experience leading or mentoring research staff and collaborating across multidisciplinary teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organisational and project management capability
- Experience working in acute care, ICU, infectious diseases or related clinical environments
Experience working with registries, surveillance systems, linked datasets or public health research initiatives will be highly regarded.
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.
The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences is Australia’s largest health faculty and internationally recognised for excellence in medical research, education and translational impact. The School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine is one of the leading public health schools in the Asia-Pacific region, with strong expertise spanning epidemiology, clinical trials, health systems, biostatistics and implementation science.
Located at the Alfred Hospital precinct, ANZIC-RC is a major clinical research centre with an internationally recognised reputation in intensive care and critical care trials and surveillance research.
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.
Together with our commitment to academic freedom, you will have access to quality research facilities, infrastructure, world-class teaching spaces, and international collaboration opportunities.
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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: Tony Trapani, Senior Research Manager, Tony.Trapani@monash.edu
Position Description: Senior Research Fellow SPRINT
Applications Close: Friday 12 June at 11:55pm AEST
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