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About the Role

The Chair of Management is a senior academic leadership role responsible for providing strategic, academic, and scholarly leadership for the Management discipline. This role is central to positioning ACAP’s Management discipline as distinctive, industry-engaged, and student-centred, leading the development and delivery of high-quality, future-focused programs.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic, academic and scholarly leadership for the Management discipline.
• Lead the development and delivery of high-quality, future-focused programs.
• Ensure academic quality, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement across all Management courses.
• Foster a strong culture of scholarship, innovation, and collegiality.
• Promote a positive, inclusive, and high-performing academic culture.
• Provide strategic advice to the Dean and Executive on discipline growth, sustainability, and market relevance.
• Represent ACAP in academic, professional, and industry contexts.
• Build partnerships that strengthen curriculum relevance, scholarship, and employability pathways.

Requirements

• Doctoral qualification in a relevant discipline.
• Experience in academic program leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to use evidence to inform strategic direction and manage change.
• Expertise and experience in curriculum design, innovation and uplift to enhance academic standards, quality assurance and regulatory compliance aligned to AQF and TEQSA requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to lead high-quality, inclusive teaching and use student data to improve progression, retention, satisfaction and achievement.
• Proven ability to lead and develop academic teams, manage performance, plan workforce needs and build a positive academic culture.
• Established scholarly profile.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to engage effectively with industry, professional bodies and institutional stakeholders.
• Strong industry connections and professional engagement (Desirable).
• Experience in Work Integrated Learning (WIL) design and implementation (Desirable).

Skills

• Academic program leadership
• Strategic direction
• Change management
• Curriculum design
• Innovation
• Quality assurance
• Regulatory compliance
• Inclusive teaching
• Team leadership
• Performance management
• Workforce planning
• Academic culture building
• Scholarly profile
• Communication
• Stakeholder engagement
• Industry connections
• Professional engagement
• Work Integrated Learning (WIL) design and implementation

Location

• Australia

Work Type

• Fractional appointments
• Flexible working arrangements

Experience Level

• Professorial level
• Senior academic leadership

Education Level

• Doctoral qualification

Benefits

• Unlimited global career opportunities across the Navitas portfolio
• Flexible working arrangements
• Salary packaging and novated leasing
• 2 paid volunteer days per year
• Up to 50% scholarships for staff enrolled in ACAP courses
• Health & well-being packages including free counselling and well-being specialist support for employees and family members
• Discounted gym memberships
• Discounted private health insurance
• Discounted movie tickets
• Discounted travel
• Discounted hotels
• Discounted insurance
• Discounted selected retailers
• Access to LinkedIn Learning
• Professional development opportunities

About the Company

• ACAP changes lives by equipping students with a deep understanding of human behaviour, skills to make a positive difference, and resilience for long, healthy careers.
• ACAP University College, part of Navitas, is Australia's leading independent tertiary education provider, delivering accredited courses in psychology, social work, counselling, coaching, criminology, law, and business management and leadership (MBA).
• ACAP is a welcoming, supportive, collegial, and collaborative working environment.
• Navitas is a leading global education provider that has helped generations of learners transform their lives through education.
• The Navitas portfolio employs over 5000 staff and supports over 60,000 students and encompasses a broad selection of partners, locations, and opportunities, including university pathway programs, English language qualifications, employment training, creative media training, and more.

Equal Opportunity

• ACAP, as part of Navitas, promotes and embraces an inclusive and diverse workforce.
• We encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, of all ages and genders, First Nations and Indigenous peoples, and people of diverse community groups.
• We believe equality, flexibility and diversity deliver a rich and collaborative environment.
• We strive to ensure that all our staff – no matter where they are from or who they are – feel safe, supported, and are given opportunities to thrive.