Welcome - New SCS School Manager - Amanda McFarlane

Posted on behalf of Professor Peter Ebeling AO, Head, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health

I am delighted to announce that after an extensive search, Ms. Amanda McFarlane has been appointed as SCS School Manager, effective 26 February 2024. 

Amanda brings with her more than 25 years of expertise across the higher education, public and private sectors. 

Amanda is committed to achieving optimal levels of service delivery through system and process enhancements that strengthen governance and promote alignment between strategic and operational initiatives. 

She has management and leadership experience in the higher education sector, with 11 years at Monash University and nearly two years at RMIT University where she was the Manager, Planning and Operations within the School of Management, College of Business & Law and was the key point of contact for all operational, financial and pedagogical-related administrative queries for 200 academic staff and led a team of 5 professional staff. 

Prior to Amanda's role at RMIT University, at Monash University she gained extensive experience in HR as a Business Partner, worked in eSolutions as an Innovation Project Manager, with the final role as Operations Manager within the Monash Business School. During her time at Monash, she spearheaded a substantial change to the service delivery model within Monash Business School in response to a significant faculty restructuring. Her solution involved re-evaluating the service delivery model, which resulted in an extensive uplift in skills across the team, supporting the academic departments.

Between Amanda's two higher education roles, she worked in the Strategic Transformation and Delivery Command at Victoria Police as a Continuous Improvement Lead. There she initiated and delivered an Investment Logic Map at the program level as part of a holistic transformation project plan for the Command. Her most significant achievement in this role was the development and delivery of a five-year transformation strategy paper for the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police. 

I am certain Amanda will be in touch and get to know everyone as she settles into her new role as SCS School Manager.

Please make her feel welcome here at SCS!