Jobs at Western Sydney University

Provides strategic legal advice on complex property, construction, environmental, and planning matters for a university. Leads legal strategies, risk management, contract drafting and negotiation, property transactions, major project structures, disputes, regulatory compliance, and external legal provider management. Advises senior stakeholders and mentors junior legal staff while delivering commercially sound outcomes.

Provides administrative and business support across Western Sydney University units while completing a Certificate III in Business Administration. Responsibilities include record keeping, filing, data and information systems, document preparation, meeting and event coordination, stakeholder support, communications, and prioritizing tasks. The trainee will work collaboratively across university campuses and may support Indigenous student programs, faculty operations, research initiatives, student engagement, or people and culture activities.

Coordinate the development and implementation of data, analytics, and AI strategies, roadmaps, operating models, and governance activities. Prepare strategic documentation, plans, reports, executive presentations, and benefits frameworks. Monitor milestones, risks, dependencies, deliverables, and benefits across concurrent initiatives. Analyze complex information, provide recommendations, engage stakeholders through workshops and governance forums, and support compliance with information governance, privacy, records management, and risk obligations.

Leads industry partnerships and oversees an advanced manufacturing innovation facility. Translates university research, expertise, facilities, and technology into industry and regional outcomes; develops commercial and government funding opportunities; supports workforce development and student engagement; and manages governance, planning, risk, reporting, operations, and continuous improvement.

Leads governance, integration, and delivery of Western Sydney University's transnational education programs and international partnerships. Coordinates academic operations, curriculum approvals, quality controls, risk management, student administration, and partner engagement across campuses and jurisdictions. Advises executives on program feasibility, readiness, expansion, and sustainability while overseeing delegations, graduations, mobility, scholarships, and other strategic initiatives. Requires extensive senior experience in higher education, international education, academic governance, or complex institutional operations.