Jobs at University of Sydney

Lead the School of Social and Political Sciences, overseeing academic teaching, research, student experience, accreditation, finances, staffing, workplace culture, and strategic performance. Build internal and external partnerships, strengthen the School’s reputation, support research funding and industry collaboration, and contribute to Faculty and University leadership goals. The role includes formal financial and people-management responsibilities and requires effective decision-making across a complex higher-education environment.

Secures philanthropic investment for the University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences by identifying and engaging high-net-worth donor prospects, aligning their interests with strategic priorities, building donor pipelines, and soliciting gifts of $100,000 or more. The role requires strong relationship-building, communication, emotional intelligence, confidentiality, and a proactive, results-oriented approach.

Lead the University’s research analytics strategy and specialist team, delivering trusted insights for research performance, investment, rankings, benchmarking, and institutional decision-making. Partner with senior academic and professional leaders, oversee reporting and external assessments, advance predictive analytics, visualization, and self-service capabilities, and establish strong data governance, quality, security, and compliance frameworks. Monitor research policy and funding trends while building organizational capability and fostering continuous improvement.

Provides confidential executive assistance and secretariat support to the Head of School and Dean, including diary and meeting management, correspondence, travel coordination, expense processing, approval workflows, briefing documentation, and school administration projects. The role requires independent judgment, discretion, strong communication, stakeholder liaison, and advanced administrative and Microsoft Office skills.

Implements pharmaceutical-sponsored and investigator-initiated clinical trials under supervision, following protocols and regulatory requirements. Coordinates with trial stakeholders, supports research meetings and communication, and maintains compliance across trial documentation, ethics applications, participant data capture, and verification. The role also promotes workplace health and safety, participates in drills and training, and identifies safety improvements.

Leads strategic planning, coordination, delivery, and stakeholder engagement for a portfolio of alumni, supporter, community, cultivation, stewardship, and large-scale events. The role primarily manages the Community Festival while advising on and contributing to additional event initiatives throughout the year. Responsibilities require strong project administration, communication, organisation, prioritisation, problem-solving, and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.

Conduct interdisciplinary research on harmful child and adolescent sexual behaviours in digital and offline contexts. The Fellow will collect and analyse data, develop an independent research program, publish findings, engage academic, government and community stakeholders, contribute to research impact and knowledge exchange, and teach law-related courses for six months. The role requires a PhD and empirical research experience, with focus areas including children’s rights, digital harms, sexual violence, justice and child protection.

Provides psychological assessment, evidence-based therapy, follow-up assessment, and care coordination for young people aged 12–25 experiencing mental health, alcohol, and other drug concerns. The role works within a multidisciplinary headspace team, maintains clinical records, liaises with families and community providers, participates in clinical governance, quality improvement, research, training, and community awareness activities.

Provides strategic, governance, policy, financial planning, risk, compliance, reporting and executive support to Indigenous Strategy and Services leadership at a university. The role coordinates portfolio initiatives, prepares executive and committee materials, monitors strategic priorities and operational plans, and builds partnerships across faculties and internal stakeholders. It requires understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, higher education or government governance, organisational planning and senior stakeholder engagement.

Lead the end-to-end delivery of a nationally significant mental health upskilling project focused on eating disorder identification and early intervention. Responsibilities include project planning, governance, stakeholder engagement, national rollout of eLearning and digital interventions, financial oversight, risk management, reporting, evaluation, and compliance across research, clinical, and digital workstreams.

Leads a data governance and privacy workstream within a university-wide resilience program. Responsibilities include coordinating data discovery and remediation across Microsoft 365 environments, developing scalable governance processes, identifying data owners, managing retention requirements, coordinating technical and business teams, tracking risks and dependencies, reporting progress, and supporting adoption of information governance practices.

Provides intellectual and academic leadership in jurisprudence, legal theory, and philosophy of law. Responsibilities include developing world-leading research, publishing, securing funding, teaching and supervising students, mentoring researchers, contributing to school governance, building international scholarly networks, and engaging with legal, academic, and public communities.

Manage venue operations and event delivery across Sydney Conservatorium of Music locations. Program concerts, masterclasses, recitals, community events and other performances; coordinate performers, staff, clients and technical teams; provide venue, policy and procedural support; develop stakeholder relationships and marketing materials; manage event schedules, contractors, invoices, budgets and financial controls; and ensure safe, high-quality rehearsals and productions, including regular evening and weekend work.

Coordinate a portfolio of research projects, events, workshops, conferences, partnerships, and digital communications. Track progress, prepare reports, manage budgets and financial processes, and engage researchers, artists, industry collaborators, and other stakeholders to support successful outcomes. The role requires strong project coordination, event planning, communication, organisation, and digital platform skills in a university, arts, research, music, or environmental setting.

Lead the establishment and operational success of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Advanced Peptide and Protein Engineering. Responsibilities include strategic planning, governance, reporting, compliance, financial and administrative oversight, stakeholder coordination, outreach support, and advising the Centre Director and leadership team across a national research network.

Provide scientific leadership and operational oversight for a translational organ-perfusion laboratory. Lead experiments on metabolism, mitochondrial physiology, tissue repair, and regeneration; interpret experimental and multiomic data; supervise research staff and PhD students; coordinate multiple research streams; troubleshoot laboratory work; and contribute to publications, reporting, and long-term research strategy.

Supports multiple clinical trials by maintaining documentation, coordinating meetings and administrative tasks, tracking submissions, payments, invoices, recruitment, supplies, and study data. The role assists ethics and regulatory processes, manages databases and records, supports study sites and collaborators, and contributes to process improvement while maintaining ICH Good Clinical Practice knowledge.

Supports single-cell proteomics research infrastructure by overseeing laboratory operations, experiments, instrumentation maintenance, data analysis, researcher training, safety procedures, vendor coordination, and fee-for-service activities. The role provides specialist expertise across mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography, microscopy, and cell-sorting platforms while mentoring users and ensuring high-quality, compliant laboratory outcomes.

Provides academic leadership, strategic direction, and external representation for the Khuda Women in STEM Program. Responsibilities include advising on evidence-based program quality, shaping strategy and governance, building relationships with donors and stakeholders, supporting long-term funding, representing the initiative in media and public forums, and strengthening its research evidence and impact.

Provide operational project management support for a national eating-disorder upskilling program: coordinate activities, monitor progress, maintain documentation and reporting, manage logistics and stakeholder engagement, and support continuous improvement of project methods and training platforms.