Melina Talanis

Leading a small team to build long-term philanthropic partnerships with individuals, corporate partners and trusts and foundations to enable impact through a plethora of education and research initiatives across the STEM portfolio. Building deep, mutual beneficial relationships to realise our partners' visions, matching their strategic priorities with the Faculties' to deliver impact through major and principal gifts.

Connecting Monash Graduate Education with alumni and industry, to foster long-term partnerships and enhance graduate students' study experience and employment outcomes. (Incl. guest lectures, industry embedded PhDs, Graduate Research Interdisciplinary Programs (GRIPs) and Public Lectures)

Domestic and international student recruitment (international agent training, career expos, school visits), event management (strategy and execution of large-scale recruitment events) and creation of marketing materials, web and social media content for the Faculties of IT & Engineering.

Enabling this tourism tours company’s fast growth and successful establishment in the Australia market, utilising a range of diverse marketing and sales channels and strategies to develop and deliver a range of food focused tours and grow the customer base across Sydney and Melbourne.