CSIRO Undergraduate Vacation Studentships - Strategy

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The Opportunity

• Get hands-on experience in a leading scientific organisation.
• Access CSIRO's world-class facilities and work with a supportive team to deliver solutions with real impact.
• Apply for a CSIRO Vacation Studentship today!

 
Our Undergraduate Vacation Studentships are run over the Australian summer holidays and offer high achieving and promising undergraduate students the opportunity to collaborate with CSIRO researchers in our world class facilities.

As the successful candidate, you will have the chance to work on a real project in either science, technology, or a related field such as science communication.

Participation in the Vacation Studentship Program has influenced countless students in their choice of further study and future career options. Many have gone on to pursue a PhD and/or built successful research career; either within CSIRO, universities, or industry.

Strategy Team

The Strategy team drive the formation of CSIRO's strategic direction, support portfolio investment decision making and tracking delivery. This is done through facilitating conversations, providing informed insights, and supporting performance management. Some of the key projects that the Strategy team supports for CSIRO are development of its Corporate Plan and Annual Report, strategy development and impact planning for individual Business Units, facilitating the Annual Performance and Investment Review process, and continuous performance reporting.  

Within the Strategy team, projects are being offered across 3 sub-teams: 

Planning: who support the direction setting for CSIRO at an enterprise level, across the Business Units, Teams and various strategic initiatives, and also are responsible for the investment decision process to ensure CSIRO’s resource are allocated, and progress is made towards achievement of organisational strategy.

Insights: who support strategy development, inform decision-making at various levels of the organisation through evidence backed market analysis and insight generation so that CSIRO continues to solve the complex issues of national significance.

Performance: who are responsible for managing performance reporting at the enterprise level, production of key documents such as the Annual Report and providing insight to strategy progress through performance frameworks

Projects: There are 10 projects available in Strategy team, for details please see the project list (link to excel file)

To be considered you will need:

• to be enrolled in an undergraduate degree at an Australian university;
• have completed at least 2 years (full-time equivalent) of an undergraduate course (at the time the studentship is expected to commence). This includes third or fourth-year students, including final year honours students;
• have a strong academic record (credit average or higher);
• an interest in pursuing a research career in science or technology, or a career in a related discipline; and
• the ability to undertake a full-time placement for 8-12 weeks over the university summer vacation period

Eligibility

Applications for these studentships are open to Australian and New Zealand Citizens, Australian Permanent Residents and International students who currently resides in Australia and have full work rights for the duration of the placement (do not require visa sponsorship).

Appointment to this role may be subject to conditions including provision of a national police check as well as other security/medical/character clearance requirements.

Flexible Working Arrangements

We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are working hard to recruit people representing the diversity across our society, and ensure that all our people feel supported to do their best work and feel empowered to let their ideas flourish.

About CSIRO

At CSIRO Australia's national science agency, we solve the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. We put the safety and wellbeing of our people above all else and earn trust everywhere because we only deal in facts. We collaborate widely and generously and deliver solutions with real impact.

CSIRO is committed to values-based leadership to inspire performance and unlock the potential of our people.

CSIRO is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people involved in our activities and programs, whether we are undertaking research, engaging with the public or nurturing future scientists in person or online. Source – CSIRO Child Safe policy 2023

Join us and start creating tomorrow today!

How to Apply

To apply you will be required to:

• submit a Resume/CV and Cover Letter (as one document) in the ‘Resume/CV’ field which includes:
  • the reasons why the research project/s you have selected are of interest to you and how your skills/knowledge meet the project requirements; and
  • an outline of your longer-term career aspirations and how this program will help you achieve them.
    upload your academic results in the ‘Cover Letter’ field;
• in the ‘Education’ section select your university from the Educational Institute list;
• in the ‘Job-Specific Information’ section select your two preferred research projects for Strategy in order of preference; and enter your Grade Point Average (GPA) as per the University Admission Centre’s methodology.  If you have a WAM, please read the Methodology on this site and calculate a GPA using the formula provided.

 
If you experience difficulties applying online call 1300 984 220 and someone will be able to assist you. Outside business hours please email: [email protected].