Associate Director, Faculty Partnerships Full-time Job

About the job

Full-time, continuing position as an Associate Director, Faculty Partnerships

Key leadership position supporting Sydney Future Students

SPS A - Competitive remuneration package plus 17% superannuation

About the opportunity

The Associate Director, Faculty Partnerships, is a key operational leadership role responsible for supporting the Associate Vice-President, Sydney Future Students, in developing and implementing faculty- and school-level recruitment strategies and services for the University of Sydney. This includes establishing, implementing, and reviewing evidence-based approaches to resource planning, priority setting, and decision-making across the Faculty Partnerships function, and maximising the application of insights from data, market-specific knowledge, consultation, benchmarking, and other relevant information to improve service-level operations and support university- and faculty-level decision-making.

The role of Associate Director, Faculty Partnerships has been designed to lead the team in providing a highly professional, specialised, and effective student recruitment service through activities and strategic partnerships, supported by high-quality market- and product-specific insights and guidance. This is an excellent opportunity to bring your extensive higher education, operational expertise, service model, people leadership, and large-scale management, and exceptional stakeholder management skills to the forefront of your role. This role is one where your initiative, creativity and leadership experience will help to deliver excellence to our stakeholders and support the Associate Vice-President in our objective of delivering best-in-market student recruitment expertise and product insights to the University of Sydney's faculties and schools.

The Associate Director, Faculty Partnerships will work under the broad direction of the Associate Vice-President and will work collaboratively with stakeholders to continuously improve the Faculty Partnerships offering on behalf of Sydney Future Students. The Associate Director will apply significant knowledge and experience to focus on the continuous improvement approaches to support the delivery of highly professional student recruitment outcomes in line with the broader University and faculty/schools' strategic goals. Acting as a delegate for the Associate Vice-President, this role is pivotal in shaping the team's service offering and representing the team at senior levels across the institution.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

support the Associate Vice-President to lead the team's key strategic planning activities, including the development of strategic, operational, and business plans, a course training program for Sydney Future Students (SFS) and other strategic projects and initiatives

lead and provide high-level analysis and information in support of the achievement of SFS's strategic goals

work with the Senior Managers to develop and deliver high-quality reports on market and student demand trends, intake scenarios, profiles, course and field of education, and subject-specific rankings and changes, and competitors' activities. Utilise the reports and analysis to recommend short- and long-term opportunities for the Faculty Partnerships team, including risk liability strategies, in relation to the local, regional, and international market for the respective courses

ensure the Faculty Partnerships team has a clear understanding of faculty and school-level objectives and a means to provide regular updates on student recruitment activities to the Associate Vice-President, SFS leadership, Deans, faculty and school staff and faculty/school Marketing and Communications teams

manage the allocation of resources, ensuring alignment with the strategic direction of student recruitment, including developing and monitoring the allocated faculty/school-level budgets within Faculty Partnerships

facilitate evidence-based decision-making by supporting the development of data, product, market, and student recruitment reporting literacy for the Faculty Partnerships team as required

build and foster a culture of innovation, creativity, excellence, collaboration and accountability.

About you

substantial understanding of faculty/school-based needs in managing their student recruitment objectives

high-level planning and organisational skills, and the ability to coordinate multiple streams of stakeholders

highly developed leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, including skills in large-scale, complex team and stakeholder management and internal relationship building, negotiation, influencing and motivation, and the ability to prioritise and effectively manage team workloads

superior relationship management skills and capacity to manage competing needs of diverse stakeholders, with various time and resource limitations

previous experience in higher education leadership, and working knowledge of university, faculty, and school-level planning, reporting and governance.

Sponsorship / work rights for Australia

You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this employment to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment.

Pre-employment checks

Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all role required pre-employment or background checks in terms satisfactory to the University. Similarly, your ongoing employment is conditional upon the satisfactory maintenance of all relevant clearances and background check requirements. If you do not meet these conditions, the University may take any necessary step, including the termination of your employment.

EEO statement

At the University of Sydney, our shared values are trust, accountability and excellence and we strive to be a place where everyone can thrive. We are committed to creating a University community that thrives through diversity and reflects the wider community that we serve. We deliver on this through our commitment to diversity and inclusion, evidenced by our people and culture programs, as well as key strategies to increase participation and support the careers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people living with a disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and those who identify as LGBTQIA+. We welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds.

We are proud to be recognised as an Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) Platinum Employer. Find out more about our work on diversity and inclusion.

How to apply

Applications (including a cover letter, CV, and any additional supporting documentation) can be submitted via the Apply button at the top of the page.

For a confidential discussion about the role, or if you require reasonable adjustment or support filling out this application, please contact Kristy Fairweather, Recruitment Operations, by email to kristy.fairweather@sydney.edu.au

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