Executive Director, Office of the Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor
- Employer
- UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Closing date
- 9 Dec 2019
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- Job Type
- Senior Management & Heads of Department, Directors
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
- Unique senior leadership opportunity at the University of Sydney
- Located at Camperdown Campus
- Full-time, continuing Senior Professional Staff D with attractive remuneration package and 17% superannuation
About the opportunity
The role of Executive Director (ED) is a senior role, reporting directly to the newly-appointed Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) and working collaboratively across the Faculties and Portfolios. This is an opportunity for an experienced, talented and energetic executive to:
- provide strategic analysis and advice to the Provost and DVC
- drive institution-wide change programs, multiple individual projects and initiatives
- support the work of the Provost and DVC together with the Deans to ensure the successful strategic outcomes of the Faculties and budgets
- develop and maintain strong relationships between the Provost and DVC’s office and other portfolios
A dedicated and experienced leader, the ED will also manage a small team that supports the Provost and DVC portfolio.
About you
We are looking for a highly experienced Executive Director who has:
- excellent influencing, diplomacy and negotiation skills to build and maintain relationships locally as well as across a large and complex organisation;
- experience in an environment of complex business transformation and change;
- appropriate tertiary qualifications and a sophisticated understanding of the higher education sector;
- a record of achievement in senior leadership encompassing the conceptualisation and delivery of concurrent, complex and potentially sensitive strategic priorities and projects;
- the ability to influence, problem-solve, think creatively, take initiative and exercise effective judgment in a dynamic environment;
- high level analytical skills, with experience developing business cases, undertaking data analysis, reviewing budgets and preparing reports for senior executives regarding strategic initiatives;
- outstanding interpersonal skills; and
- an unwavering commitment to the ethos of excellent service to the mission of the University.
About us
The Provost and DVC has overall responsibility for the University's:
- faculties, including strategies and budgets
- academic programs
- academic performance
- libraries
Since our inception 160 years ago, the University of Sydney has been making an impact and leading research to improve the world around us. We believe in education for all and that effective leadership makes lives better. These same values are reflected in our approach to diversity and inclusion and underpin our long-term strategy for growth. We’re Australia's first university and have an outstanding global reputation for academic and research excellence. Across our campuses, we employ over 7600 academic and non-academic staff who support over 70,000 students.
We are undergoing significant transformative change which brings opportunity for innovation, progressive thinking, breaking with convention, challenging the status quo, and improving the world around us.
For more information:
To learn more about this unique opportunity please contact our advising consultants Kirsten Ludlow and Simone Goldsmith at Boyden on +61 2 9225 7400 or kirsten.ludlow@boyden.com.
Applications close: 9 December 2019
Company
The University of Sydney was established in 1850 and is consistently recognised, both locally and internationally, for its outstanding teaching and research excellence. Sydney alumni include Prime Ministers, Governor Generals, Nobel Prize winners and leaders in every field of endeavour.
The University offers a comprehensive range of courses, including a number of disciplines unique in Australia. Teaching is spread across nine different state-of-the art campuses, located across New South Wales.
The University of Sydney’s commitment to excellence in research has resulted in an outstanding record in national competitive funding and underpins an approach to teaching which has won nominations for excellence and resulted in high student satisfaction ratings. The University has 78 research centres and institutes and is home to three ARC Centres of Excellence.
The teaching, research and cultural life of the University is supported by extensive facilities, including the largest library collection in the Southern Hemisphere, the world-class Nicholson Museum of archaeological antiquities, the Macleay Museum of natural history and ethnographic collections and the University Art Gallery. Its outstanding sporting and recreation facilities provide a training centre for students and Olympic athletes.
The University of Sydney is a key member of the Group of Eight Australian major research-intensive universities, and the Worldwide Universities Network.
Campuses
The University of Sydney has nine official campuses.
1. Camperdown/Darlington Campus.
2. Cumberland Campus. Home to the Faculty of Health Sciences (based in Lidcombe).
3. Mallett Street Campus. Home of the Sydney Nursing School.
4. Sydney Conservatorium of Music Campus. In Macquarie Street, central Sydney.
5. Rozelle Campus. Home to Sydney College of the Arts.
6. Surry Hills Campus. Home to the Faculty of Dentistry.
7. Camden Campus. Contains facilities connected to the Faculty of Veterinary Science and the Faculty of Agriculture and Environment.
8. Burren Street Campus. Facilties are currently under development.
9. Sydney Medical School campuses. These include the School of Rural Health (in Dubbo and Orange), the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Concord Hospital, Westmead Hospital, the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Nepean Hospital, Northern Clinical School, Sydney Adventist Hospital, Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health, and Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health.
Faculties
The University of Sydney has 16 faculties.
1. Agriculture and Environment
2. Architecture, Design and Planning
3. Arts and Social Sciences
4. Business (Business School)
5. Dentistry
6. Education and Social Work
7. Engineering and Information Technologies
8. Health Sciences
9. Law (Sydney Law School)
10. Medicine (Sydney Medical School)
11. Nursing and Midwifery
12. Pharmacy
13. Science
14. Sydney College of the Arts
15. Sydney Conservatorium of Music
16. Veterinary Science
Number of Employees
Full-time employees: 7616
For more information, please visit: http://sydney.edu.au/
- Telephone
- +(61) 2 9351 2222
- Location
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UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
NEW SOUTH WALES
2006
Australia
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