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About the Role

Shape the public profile and strategic direction of a growing humanities institute. This is a high-trust role with broad responsibility across programs, partnerships, communications, and advancement, offering a chance to be part of a welcoming community of academics, students, and professional staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead academic and public programs, including lectures, seminars, short courses and visiting scholars.
• Manage strategic partnerships with academic, industry, civic, philanthropic and faith-based organisations.
• Oversee major projects and Institute operations from planning through to delivery.
• Manages communications, publications, website content and the Institute’s external profile.
• Support philanthropy, funding opportunities, and advancement activities.
• Maintain activity records and prepare reports, briefings and planning materials.
• Develop new programs, funding initiatives, research partnerships and public engagement opportunities.

Requirements

• Postgraduate qualification, or an equivalent combination of experience, education and training.
• Substantial experience in program management, partnerships, events or communications, including leading complex initiatives from concept to delivery.
• Experience producing briefing notes, reports and public-facing content in a setting where mission and reputation matter.
• Strong relationship-building skills, and the credibility to represent the Institute with senior external stakeholders, including civic and religious leaders.
• Excellent organisational and project-management skills, with the ability to build systems and workflows others can rely on.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including translating complex academic work for diverse audiences.
• Sound judgement and discretion in handling sensitive matters and high-trust relationships.
• Understanding of the Australian higher education sector and UNDA's distinctive profile.
• Applicants are expected to have current and valid work rights in Australia.

Skills

• Program management
• Partnerships
• Events
• Communications
• Project management
• Relationship building
• Written communication
• Verbal communication
• Organisational skills
• Strategic planning
• Public engagement
• Operations management

Location

• Sydney Campus

Work Type

• Full-time
• Continuing contract

Experience Level

• Manager

Education Level

• Postgraduate qualification

Salary/Compensations

• $151,902 pa + 15% superannuation

About the Company

• The University of Notre Dame Australia is a modern, national Catholic university that serves more than 12,000 students across its campuses in Fremantle, Broome and Sydney.
• With a community of over 1,000 academic and professional staff, Notre Dame is recognised for its personalised learning environment, strong graduate outcomes and holistic educational philosophy rooted in critical thinking, ethics and the Catholic intellectual tradition.
• The Institute for Ethics & Society (IES) is a national research institute of the University of Notre Dame Australia. We are philosophers, theologians, historians and social scientists, drawing on deep intellectual traditions to grapple with the questions that define our age: how to live well, how to live together, how to inherit the past in a changing world.
• The Institute works closely with partners across industry, civil society and faith communities. It is home to two centres — the Centre for the History of Philosophy and the Centre for Technology and Human Futures — and has wider research strengths across moral philosophy, religion and culture, and Catholic studies.

Equal Opportunity

• The University is committed to providing a safe, respectful and inclusive working and learning environment.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.
• The University of Notre Dame Australia seeks to increase the diversity of our workforce to better meet the different needs of the University and its stakeholders and to improve equal opportunity outcomes for our staff.