• A challenging opportunity to lead the Faculty’s load planning, curriculum management and quality assurance needs
• Utilise your high level of theoretical and applied knowledge to provide high level quality support 
• Full time Fixed Term 12 months, HEO10 position, salary of $127K plus leave loading and generous superannuation contribution.

About the opportunity 

The Manager, Curriculum and Quality within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is responsible for leading the Faculty’s load planning, curriculum management and quality assurance needs, providing high-level academic program planning advice, analysis and reporting to the Faculty Leadership Group. 

The Manager, Curriculum and Quality is responsible for overseeing the administration and compilation of academic content and materials prepared by academic staff for programs of study, including documentation required for the complex curriculum academic approval process, and maintenance of curriculum and degree program information in university systems and publications. The role provides sophisticated reporting and analysis on curriculum matters, timetabling optimisation and complex admission advice for the Faculty and oversees the coordination and reporting for TEQSA and accreditation reviews.

The Manager, Curriculum and Quality utilises their high level of theoretical and applied knowledge to provide high level support and advice to Associate Deans and works with School Managers and relevant academic staff to drive the integration and quality review of curriculum matters to successful completion on behalf of the Faculty. 

The role brings a multi-perspective understanding to the development and implementation of process change requirements to ensure adherence within the university policy and governance structure, University and Faculty objectives and contributes to innovation in education. The Manager, Curriculum and Quality will lead a small team and is responsible for the collaboration, effective communication and stakeholder engagement with staff managing faculty or university projects, supporting adaptive change and leading a strategic response to market demands across the higher education sector.

About you

The University values courage and creativity; openness and engagement; inclusion and diversity; and respect and integrity. As such, we see the importance in recruiting talent aligned to these values in the pursuit of research excellence. We are looking for a Manager, Curriculum and Quality who possesses:

• proven strategic thinking skills with ability to research, assess, interpret and synthesise information
• demonstrated ability to lead multiple complex projects
• excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• high-level data analysis, reporting and statistical modelling skills
• experience in education programs, timetabling, and curriculum administration
• experience managing a diverse group of key stakeholders through complex projects
• post graduate qualifications with extensive work experience in tertiary education environment

About us

The University of Sydney is Australia's first university and has an outstanding global reputation for academic and research excellence. Our strategy is simple: to create a place where the best researchers and most promising students can achieve their full potential. High-calibre professional staff, technically able and personally committed to both the work of the University in education and research and to its institutional values, are essential to our work.

A faculty is a group of cognate academic units concerned with a major division of knowledge for which it drives the curriculum offering and research agenda.  Faculties participate in University wide governance and decision making and provide strategic oversight of the academic endeavour as well as support collaboration between faculties and University schools.  Strategic oversight of people, talent and financial management occurs at the faculty level, as well as engagement externally, including with accreditation bodies, industry links and alumni and donor relationships that are beneficial to the faculty and the University. 

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is consistently ranked among the leading faculties of its kind, nationally and internationally.  Its mission is to conduct research and teaching across the breadth of the humanities and social sciences to make a difference in the lives of its students, staff and the broader community

The Faculty aims to create and sustain a community of adaptive scholars committed to:

• Free and open inquiry
• Academic excellence and the inherent value of teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences
• Providing opportunities for our students to develop the attributes and capacities required for leadership and global citizenship,
• Bringing the methodologies and insights of our disciplines to bear on many of the fundamental questions facing humanity today through basic research and engaged public comment and debate.

The Faculty is made up of 6 cognate schools and offers a diverse curriculum at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The Faculty comprises over 600 academic staff and 14,000 students; its senior executives include the Dean, 6 Heads of School and Associate Deans.

How to apply

For more information on the position and University, please view the candidate information pack available from the job’s listing on the University of Sydney careers website.

All applications must be submitted via the University of Sydney careers website.  Visit sydney.edu.au/recruitment and search by the reference number 423/0319F to apply.

Closing date: 11:30pm, 7 April 2019 (Sydney time)

The University of Sydney is committed to diversity and social inclusion. Applications from people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds; equity target groups including women, people with disabilities, people who identify as LGBTIQ; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged.

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