Director Academic Quality and Development

ArtSupport; Albany; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

South Regional TAFE is seeking an experienced leader to join the executive leadership team as Director Academic Quality and Development. This role leads academic quality, governance, and regulatory assurance across the College, shaping strategies to strengthen teaching practice and workforce capability.

Reporting to the Executive Director Capability and Partnerships, you will guide the Principal Lecturer team and specialist quality functions, providing strategic leadership on risk and regulatory

Qualifications

• Seasoned leader with expertise in academic quality and governance.
• Deep knowledge of the 2025 Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) and regulatory assurance.
• Proven ability to lead teams and drive strategic improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead academic quality, governance, regulatory assurance and improvement.
• Safeguard RTO registration and scope per 2025 Standards.
• Shape strategies to strengthen teaching practice and workforce capability.
• Lead Principal Lecturer team and quality functions.
• Provide high-level advice on academic quality and risk.
• Drive quality improvement, audits and regulatory change.
• Build relationships with regulators and sector partners.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Regulatory expertise

People leadership

Executive governance

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Shape the future of academic quality at South Regional TAFE

About the role

South Regional TAFE is seeking an experienced and forward‑thinking leader to join our executive leadership team as Director Academic Quality and Development.

This is an influential organisation-wide role with responsibility for leading academic quality, governance, regulatory assurance and the development of our academic workforce.

Reporting to the Executive Director Capability and Partnerships, you will lead the Principal Lecturer team and specialist academic quality functions, providing strategic leadership that strengthens teaching practice, academic capability and the quality of training and assessment across the College.

What you’ll be doing

You will:

• Lead the College’s academic quality, governance, regulatory assurance and continuous improvement agenda.
• Safeguard the College’s RTO registration and scope in accordance with the 2025 Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs).
• Shape strategies that strengthen teaching practice and academic workforce capability.
• Lead and develop the Principal Lecturer team and specialist quality functions.
• Provide high-level advice on academic quality, risk and regulatory matters.
• Lead key quality improvement, audit, regulatory and organisational change initiatives.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, regulators, government and key sector partners.

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for an experienced, contemporary and influential leader who can bring together academic quality, regulatory expertise, people leadership and strategic thinking.

You will bring:

• Strong leadership experience within VET, education or a similarly complex
• Strong knowledge of the 2025 Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs), RTO registration, scope and regulatory assurance.
• Experience leading academic quality, strategy, organisational improvement and change.
• The ability to lead professional teams and build academic capability across an organisation.
• Strong judgement, communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to operate effectively at executive and governance level.

Most importantly, you will understand that academic quality is about more than compliance. You will be committed to building capability, supporting excellent lecturing practice and creating the conditions for high-quality outcomes for students, industry and our regional communities.

Why Join us

At South Regional TAFE (SRT), you will be part of an organisation that is dedicated to delivering a diverse range of nationally recognised programmes throughout the Great Southern and South West regions of Western Australia. With a presence spanning 12 campuses from Bunbury to Esperance and from Albany to Narrogin, we offer flexible delivery options, including on‑site, online and workplace‑based programmes. This plays a critical role in building a skilled regional workforce and supporting local communities.

We offer a supportive and flexible working environment, along with a range of benefits including:

• Salary packaging/sacrifice facility
• 12% employer superannuation contribution
• Deferred salary scheme – receive 80% salary for four years with the fifth year as a paid sabbatical leave from the workplace
• Thirteen weeks paid long service leave after 7 years
• Fifteen days personal leave
• Four weeks annual leave and an option to accrue ten additional days extra leave each year
• Flexible working hours
• Paid parental leave – 18 weeks
• Up to Five (5) days Cultural Leave for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

We are an equal opportunity employer and we continually strive to strengthen the diversity and capability of our workforce to reflect the rich diversity of our student community. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, young people (24 years of age and under), people of diverse sexualities and genders, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and women in non‑traditional areas.

Other Conditions and Eligibility

Eligibility for employment is subject to obtaining a satisfactory Department of Education Criminal Clearance. If this position involves contact with children, the recommended occupant will also be required to obtain a Working with Children (WWC) Card.

To be eligible to work in Australia you must be able to live and work in Australia (e.g. Australian citizen, permanent residency status or current visa holder).

This selection process may be used to identify suitable applicants for similar vacancies that arise within the next twelve months.

Should no suitable applicant be identified, or an offer declined, the panel may search for further applicants beyond the closing date.

SR TAFE has a shutdown period of up to 12 working days over Christmas/New Year. Arrangements for paid leave in advance or leave without pay during the shutdown period will be negotiated with the successful applicant.

Applications close Friday 30 October 2026 at 4:00pm (WST).

Advertised Reference Number: SRG078.26S