About Flinders

Our bold vision, captured in our Strategic Plan: making a Difference: The 2025 Agenda, is to be internationally recognised as a world leader in research, an innovator in contemporary education, and the source of Australia’s most enterprising graduates.

To realise this ambition, we recently made a significant organisation change to a six College structure with a professional staff and services alignment.

We recognise the key to our success is exceptional people and we’re seeking an outstanding individual to join the team of our transformed university.

Employment Type:
Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Position Summary
Fixed-term, full-time available until 31 January 2022

Compensation Grade:
Higher Education Officer Level 8

Salary Range:
$98,466 - $109,009 pa

Reporting to:
IDS Planning & Analytical Services Lead

Information and Digital Services (IDS)

Under broad direction, the role is responsible for the design, development and implementation of data models and analytical assets, for consumption by the relevant stakeholders, in accordance with IDS data and analytics architecture principles, guardrails and design standards.

The role is also responsible for supporting and aligning with the capability hub where all relevant IDS planning, data and analytics resources have either a full or dotted reporting line into.

Key Position Responsibilities

Technical Management & Support​

• Leading the design, development and implementation of data models and analytical assets in accordance with IDS data and analytics architecture principles, guardrails and design standards to support the creation and delivery of information assets.
• Supporting the University's data and analytics architecture and strategy.
• Providing governance and assurance services for solution designs and technology options to ensure alignment with data and analytics architecture frameworks, principles, guardrails and design standards.
• Working as required, directly or indirectly with project teams to support the delivery of project outcomes.

Technical Vision & Roadmap

• Supporting the relevant stakeholders in the development, implementation and management of the vision and associated roadmap for IDS data and analytics architecture, ensuring the vision and roadmap is aligned to the strategic objectives and relevant governance principles of IDS and Flinders.
• Maintaining the relevant supporting artefacts and leading the periodical review of the IDS data and analytics vision and roadmap to ensure it is kept up to date and well understood by relevant stakeholders.
• Supporting the development of business cases for new or enhanced technologies and solutions to support the delivery of the roadmap.

Technical Knowledge & Excellence

• Conducting formal and informal market scanning and benchmarking activities to be aware of emerging market offerings and trends.
• Periodically participating in knowledge building activities and events to be aware of latest/best practices related to the role and to keep skills and knowledge up to date.
• Managing the provision of timely and effective advice and support to customers and stakeholders by identifying improvements to support services and providing technical expertise to enable customers to adopt new technologies and processes.

Risk, Governance & Ways of Working

• Managing day-to-day vendor interactions and relationships using sound commercial judgement in accordance with University procurement policies.
• Establishing and maintaining an agile based way of working to manage, groom, and prioritise the activity backlog based on relevant customer and IDS priorities.  Balancing the need to support day to day operations in a stable and reliable manner, with the need to undertake functional enhancements and new features for customers.
• Identifying, managing and mitigating risks related to the activities being undertaken by the role in line with IDS and Flinders University policies and procedures.
• Ensuring compliance with all relevant IDS and Flinders University policies and procedures.

Other Responsibilities

• Any other responsibilities in line with the level of the role as assigned by the Supervisor and/or the University.

Key Position Capabilities

• Appropriate tertiary qualification in Information Technology or relevant technical area, and / or equivalent relevant experience in an IT environment.
• High level strategic thinking, planning and analytical skills to support outcomes and meet the University’s strategic goals.
• Broad experience in planning and prioritising customer priorities.
• High level skills in leading a team to its full potential, including high level interpersonal and relationship management skills.
• Broad experience in building and managing customer relationships and expectations. 
• Broad experience in Agile ways of working including exposure to scaled agile methodologies and/or collaborating and delivering through a matrix structure.
• High level self-improvement and growth mindset/approach to the role and as part of a wider team.
• High level interpersonal influence and demonstrated ability to negotiate and communicate effectively with staff and customers across a diverse organisation particularly during the design, management and implementation of customer solutions.
• Highly developed oral presentation, persuasion and negotiation skills and significant written communication skills.
• High level experience in business intelligence design, or the use of associated tools, or with processes of implementation.
• High level experience in enterprise data modelling and database design in a large organisation.

For application enquiries please contact: Mrs Ewa Seidel

In addition, it is a requirement of this position that the incumbent maintain a current Working With Children Check which is satisfactory to the University in accordance with the Child Safety (Prohibited Persons) Act 2016 (SA).

Information for Applicants:

You are required to provide a suitability statement of no more than three pages, addressing the key capabilities of the position as outlined above. In addition, you are required to upload your CV.

A valid National Police Certificate which is satisfactory to the University will also be required before the successful applicant can commence in this position.

We are seeking to increase the diversity to improve equal opportunity outcomes for employees, and therefore we encourage female applicants, people with a disability and/or from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders descent to apply.

Please note, late applications and applications sent via agencies will not be accepted.

Applications Close 11:59 pm:

27 Apr 2021