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Operations Manager, Admissions

Job Details

  • $124K - $131K + 17% super + Leave Loading
  • Continuing role
  • Full time 35 hours per week

This is an exciting opportunity Admissions Operations Manager to join this newly created team.

About the role

The Manager, Admissions Operations role is responsible for the operational management of applications for admission to UNSW, with a focus on direct applications from Domestic Postgraduate and International Undergraduate and Postgraduate applicants. This includes managing, motivating, training and developing three teams who are responsible for admission applications within their portfolio of faculties.

About the Successful Candidate

  • A relevant degree with extensive experience or an equivalent level of knowledge gained through any other combination of education, training and experience
  • Demonstrated experience in building, leading and managing high performing and effective teams
  • Demonstrated capacity to develop and implement business improvement initiatives to achieve goals
  • High-level capacity to implement change in a complex work environment
  • Highly developed managerial skills demonstrated in a high-volume environment with critical deadlines
  • Proven capacity to build and maintain effective and productive relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
  • Knowledge and understanding of admissions within the higher education sector
  • Ability to exercise initiative, to think strategically and to adopt and active approach to problem solving
  • Proven collaborative and team-oriented approach, with ability to quickly establish and maintain a high level of personal and professional credibility at a senior management level and with the wider team
  • Ability and capacity to implement required UNSW health and safety policies and procedures.

To apply please submit your, CV, Cover Letter and answers to the selection criteria via the online portal. Please note applications sent to the contact below will not be accepted.

Contact:

Rebecca Lawrence
Head, Admissions and Scholarships
E: rebecca.lawrence@unsw.edu.au

Applications close: Sunday 19th Jan before 11 pm

UNSW aspires to be the exemplar Australian university and employer of choice for people from diverse backgrounds. UNSW aims to ensure equality in recruitment, development, retention and promotion of staff, and that no-one is disadvantaged on the basis of their gender, cultural background, disability, sexual orientation or identity. We encourage everyone who meets the selection criteria to apply.

Company

UNSW Australia’s aspiration for the next decade is to be Australia’s global university. We aspire to this in the belief that a great university which is a global leader in discovery, innovation, impact, education and thought leadership, can make an enormous difference to the lives of people in Australia and around the world.

Over the last 66 years UNSW has made contributions across the spectrum of science and the humanities. Among many achievements, UNSW has led via transformative social policy and public law and has contributed hugely to the cultural, artistic and intellectual life of our community, while also pioneering the global development of solar energy technologies, helping to control devastating epidemics such as HIV, developing new therapies for depression and anxiety, and making previously unimaginable breakthroughs in quantum computing.

UNSW is a founding member of the Group of Eight, a coalition of Australia's leading research-intensive universities, and of the prestigious international network Universitas 21. With more than 50,000 students from over 120 countries, it is one of Australia’s most cosmopolitan universities.

The main UNSW campus is located on a 38-hectare site at Kensington, seven kilometres from the centre of Sydney. Other major campuses are the Art & Design campus in the Sydney suburb of Paddington and UNSW Canberra at the Australia Defence Force Academy.

In addition to UNSW Canberra at ADFA, UNSW has eight Faculties -  Art & Design; Arts & Social Sciences; Built Environment; Business School; Engineering; Law; Medicine; and Science  – which  offer an extensive range of undergraduate, postgraduate and research programs.

UNSW prides itself on the calibre of its people, from internationally recognised academic leaders in their field to talented professionals providing technical expertise and infrastructure. Working at UNSW, you will collaborate with highly talented people and have an opportunity to learn from the best.

To find out more about UNSW and our 2025 strategy visit our website.

Company info
Telephone
+(61)2 9385 1742
Location
HIGH ST
KENSINGTON
SYDNEY
NEW SOUTH WALES
NSW 2052
AU

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