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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.

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.

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.

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.