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Performance Management Scheme for Academic Staff

How to Establish a Career Development Plan

The preparation of your Career Development plan within the context of the Performance Management Scheme will require reference to the strategic plan of the faculty/department/work unit and the Monash Plan. Some helpful websites include:

The Career Development Plan will include your suggestions in relation to your desired future career direction. This may involve, for example, increasing involvement in some areas, delegating tasks in others, or participating in or assuming responsibility for new assignments. To make the plan meaningful, it should include practical steps to achieving planned outcomes and deadlines.

The plan should specify training and development needs and how these might be met eg. completion of the Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, involvement in a mentoring arrangement, advanced training in Excel, development of expertise in teleteaching, development of research skills through involvement in a collegial group, leadership and management development, etc.

Writing a Career Development Plan is an opportunity to develop both long term goals and the shorter term objectives that are needed to reach those goals. For example, an Assistant Lecturer aspiring to achieve Senior Lecturer status within six years would establish an overall goal. The shorter term objectives would include those activities that facilitate the possibility of promotion firstly to Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer.