Jobs at University of Sydney

Lead a team of Insights Analysts delivering market research, analytics, and actionable insights for strategic decision-making and student experience improvements. Oversee projects from design through implementation, advise senior stakeholders, promote evidence-based decision-making, and ensure data quality, governance, innovation, and operational excellence. Build team capability, manage competing priorities, and translate complex data into clear recommendations for executive audiences.

Provides administrative and operational support for a university mass spectrometry research facility. Responsibilities include researcher onboarding and inductions, purchasing and invoicing, seminar and event coordination, stakeholder support, and day-to-day office administration. The role requires strong organisation, communication, finance administration, Microsoft Office, and Excel skills, with research or university experience and familiarity with relevant administrative systems desirable.

Leads and oversees the delivery of digital projects and initiatives for the Library. Develops project plans, coordinates activities and deliverables, monitors milestones, manages communications, and collaborates with stakeholders across the Library and University. Advises on digital services and platforms, evaluates emerging technologies, supports service enhancements, and manages competing priorities through sound judgment and problem-solving.

Provides high-level administrative, operational, executive, HR, finance, facilities, events, and stakeholder support for Sydney Pharmacy School. Responsibilities include coordinating meetings and events, managing correspondence and complex enquiries, supporting purchasing and financial administration, preparing reports and documentation, maintaining records, advising on policies, and contributing to process improvement and service excellence.

Leads operational readiness and technical service establishment for a biomedical research and clinical translation facility. Responsibilities include planning infrastructure, equipment, staffing, workflows, safety systems, procurement, commissioning, asset management, budgets, and workforce capability. The role coordinates University and health district stakeholders, supports organisational change, and ensures laboratory and clinical operations comply with relevant regulations and workplace health and safety requirements.

Process and manage donor and alumni gifts, ensuring accurate transaction receipting, data maintenance, and adherence to documented procedures. The role supports fundraising, gift implementation, development, and alumni relations activities through organized, detail-focused business process administration. Success requires strong communication, Salesforce experience, analytical problem-solving, prioritization, and the ability to meet deadlines in a complex operational environment.

Leads the University of Sydney’s Advancement Services function, overseeing prospect development, data and analytics, business intelligence, gift administration, and advancement systems. Provides strategic and operational leadership across philanthropy and alumni engagement, strengthening governance, digital capability, processes, performance, and continuous improvement. Partners with ICT, Finance, Legal, and governance teams while leading complex organisational change and high-performing teams in a regulated, matrixed environment.

Provides technical and operational support for preclinical imaging research at a university core facility. Responsibilities include operating PET, MRI, ultrasound, optical imaging, microCT, DXA and EchoMRI systems; training users; assisting with imaging studies, data analysis and reporting; supporting animal handling and in vivo procedures; maintaining equipment and laboratory resources; and ensuring quality, safety, animal welfare and policy compliance.

Leads major-gift fundraising for museums and cultural engagement initiatives at the University of Sydney. Builds relationships with high-net-worth donors, cultivates and solicits six- and seven-figure gifts, develops compelling proposals, aligns donor interests with institutional priorities, and partners with senior leaders. The role also involves team leadership, mentoring, strategic long-term planning, cultural competence, and advancing philanthropy across the university.

Provides evidence-based psychological assessment and intervention for children and families while supporting clinical research, trials, grant activities, data analysis, reporting, and research dissemination within a child and family mental health clinic.

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.

Leads strategic reviews, planning initiatives, and organisational development projects within the University of Sydney’s Advancement Portfolio. The role focuses on reviewing the International Foundations program, developing philanthropic opportunity frameworks, conducting research and analysis, preparing business cases and executive recommendations, and establishing governance and implementation models. Success requires strong project leadership, analytical problem-solving, stakeholder influence, communication, and the ability to deliver practical outcomes in a complex, matrixed environment.

Lead major-gift fundraising across university faculties and schools, managing relationships with Deans and Heads of School. Identify and engage high-net-worth prospects, align donor interests with university priorities, and solicit gifts of $1 million or more. Manage a fundraising pipeline, lead team performance, mentor junior development colleagues, achieve stretch financial targets, and build strong internal and external stakeholder relationships.

Leads major-gifts fundraising for the University’s Law School and broader strategic priorities. Identifies, cultivates, and solicits high-net-worth donors, securing gifts of $100,000 or more while building the donor pipeline. The role requires strong relationship management, communication, negotiation, financial-target achievement, stakeholder engagement, autonomy, emotional intelligence, and excellent organization.

Supports a multidisciplinary Community Paediatrics Research Group through qualitative and quantitative research, data collection, analysis, reporting, stakeholder communication, meeting coordination, ethics and governance applications, and grant and publication submissions. The role focuses on child health, health equity, community-based care, and research involving diverse, Aboriginal, rural, and regional families.

Leads the design, delivery, and evaluation of digital and face-to-face learning solutions supporting framework, process, and technology adoption across the University. Translates complex concepts into accessible eLearning, videos, workshops, and reference materials; conducts learning needs analyses; facilitates training; engages stakeholders; and drives organisational readiness and capability development.

Provides strategic advice to researchers developing competitive grant applications, manages research development services and stakeholder relationships, identifies funding opportunities, coordinates faculty initiatives, supports policy and process improvements, and contributes to team culture and compliance across health and medical research funding.

Leads operational management of a veterinary teaching hospital and contributes to hospital strategy, business planning, service delivery, and continuous improvement. Oversees support staff, workplace health and safety, risk management, resource allocation, facilities, infrastructure upgrades, equipment projects, and external engagement. The role supports clinical services, veterinary student teaching, research, and business activities during a fixed-term parental leave cover appointment.

Supports a multiple sclerosis neuroimaging study through MRI data processing, preprocessing pipeline execution, image registration, quality control, Python and shell scripting, longitudinal dataset management, and research coordination. The role also involves stakeholder collaboration, study administration, documentation, ethics and governance records, reporting, and compliance activities within a multidisciplinary research team.

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.