Position Description	

College/Division:	ANU College of Health and Medicine	
Faculty/School/Centre: 	National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health	
Department/Unit: 	Centre for Mental Health Research	
Position Title: 	Research Fellow	
Classification:	Academic Level B/C (part-time)	
Position No:		
Responsible to:	Associate Professor Michelle Banfield	

PURPOSE STATEMENT:
The Centre for Mental Health Research (CMHR) aims to improve the mental health of Australians through research and development, training, policy and dissemination of health information. Within CMHR, the Lived Experience Research Unit was established to provide leadership in mental health and suicide prevention research that focuses on lived experience expertise. Staff and students within the Unit are experts by virtue of their lived experience of mental health issues and/or suicidal thoughts and behaviours, and undertake research in partnership with others with lived experience in the community.
This exciting new position combines roles with the ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation and ACACIA: The ACT Consumer and Carer Mental Health Research Unit. The ALIVE National Centre is an entity administered by the University of Melbourne across 15 university partners including ANU, non-government and government agencies and researchers across disciplines. The ALIVE vision is to transform mental health and well-being through primary care and community action. The research objectives are to: embed novel preventive life course models; implement models of care that lead to longer, healthier lives in priority populations; and be informed by lived experience models and leadership. ACACIA undertakes research in partnership with and for the benefit of mental health consumers and carers in the ACT, and leads research capacity-building within the ACT mental health sector. 
The Research Fellow will work across these two initiatives, conducting lived experience-led mental health research and training. They will use both their lived expertise and research training to develop and implement research projects, and train others with lived experience in research principles and methods.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITY AREAS:
Position Dimension & Relationships: 
The position will be based at CMHR and report to A/Prof Michelle Banfield. The Research Fellow will be responsible for the day-to-day management of research and capacity-building activities associated with the ALIVE and ACACIA initiatives. This will include both qualitative and quantitative research, extensive stakeholder partnership and co-ordination of outputs. The position would suit an experienced researcher in co-production, participatory action research, implementation science or similar, in a suicide prevention or mental health research context. The position is funded for a period of 2 years from appointment and anticipated 0.8FTE. 

Role Statement:
Level of responsibility will be adjusted to suit academic level. Under broad direction, specific duties may include:
•	the conduct of high quality quantitative and qualitative research as a member of the lived experience team, including ethics applications, data collection and analysis;
•	collaboration on the development of a mental health research training program;
•	contributing to the production of conference papers, publications and grant applications;
•	supervision of research support staff and research trainees;
•	guidance in research methods for lived experience researchers and others with lived experience associated with the initiatives;
•	involvement in professional activities including, subject to availability of funds, attendance at conferences;
•	contributing to organisation and implementation of research co-creation activities, including liaising with partner organisations, people with lived experience, and community stakeholders;
•	administrative functions connected with the research projects;
•	occasional contributions in the teaching program within the field of research;
•	supervision of honours or postgraduate research projects;
•	attendance at meetings associated with the work of the organisational unit to which the research is connected, together with Centre meetings and School meetings
•	other duties as allocated by the supervisor or the Vice-Chancellor consistent with the classification of the position.

This position is being offered as an Academic Level B or C. Applicants are expected to demonstrate a track record commensurate with their career stage and the level at which they are applying.

Skill Base

A Level B Academic will normally have completed a relevant doctoral qualification or have equivalent qualifications or research experience. For this role, they are expected to have had post-doctoral research experience that has resulted in publications, conference papers, reports or professional or technical contributions that give evidence of research ability.

A Level C Academic will normally have completed a doctoral qualification and be making independent and original contributions to research, which have a significant impact on their field of expertise. At Level C, there will be a strong research track record of published work and funding, acknowledged as influential at a national level. A Level C academic will demonstrate leadership in research, training and supervision.

SELECTION CRITERIA:
1.	A PhD in a relevant discipline and an excellent record of research in mental health or suicide prevention as evidenced by a strong publication track record and the capacity to attract research funding.
2.	Lived experience of mental health issues or suicidal thoughts and/or behaviour, either personally or as a carer/family member/friend, and a willingness to use this expertise to lead lived experience research.
3.	Extensive experience in the use and interpretation of qualitative and quantitative research methods. Experience in the development of research training highly desirable.
4.	Demonstrated ability to work as a part of a diverse team under limited supervision.
5.	Demonstrated inclusive, respectful and productive working relationships with research partners and people with lived experience of mental health issues.
6.	Excellent organisational and project management skills to achieve research objectives, including experience in effective supervision of staff, students and research trainees.
7.	Highly developed oral and written communication skills.
8.	A demonstrated understanding of equal opportunity principles and policies and a commitment to their application in a university context.
	
Supervisor/Delegate Name:	A/Prof Michelle Banfield	Date:	14/07/22	

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Supervisor/Delegate Name:	A/Prof Michelle Banfield	Date:	14/07/22		Date: