Senior Change Analyst, Artificial Intelligence Platform

Western Sydney University; City of Parramatta; Hybrid; AUD 121,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff banking offers

Parking salary sacrifice

Onsite childcare discounts

EAP & flu vaccination

Fitness Passport access

Job summary

Western Sydney University seeks a Senior Change Analyst to lead change analysis, readiness, and adoption insights for its enterprise-wide AI Platform implementation. You will design assessments, stakeholder analyses, and capability evaluations to guide adoption and planning.

You will develop adoption dashboards, training resources and communications, translating complex impacts into practical plans while advising senior leaders across faculties and professional units.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate qualification in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience as a Senior Change Analyst or similar in digital transformation.
• Advanced knowledge of change methodologies including impact assessment, stakeholder analysis and readiness evaluation.
• Strong analytical capability to translate complex information into practical insights.
• Highly developed engagement, facilitation and influencing skills in a higher education context.

Responsibilities

• Lead change analysis, readiness and adoption insights for the AI Platform program.
• Design and deliver change impact assessments, stakeholder analyses, readiness assessments and capability evaluations.
• Translate organisational impacts into practical adoption plans, training and communications.
• Develop adoption measures, dashboards and reporting frameworks across stakeholders.
• Provide senior specialist advice on readiness, resistance, workforce implications and gaps.

Skills

Change analysis

Stakeholder analysis

Readiness evaluation

Impact assessment

Analytical capability

Engagement & facilitation

Influencing skills

Higher education context

Education

Postgraduate qualification in a relevant discipline

Job description

• Full-time, 12-month fixed term contract at HEW level 8
• Parramatta South campus with flexible working arrangements
• Salary: $120,754 – $134,051 per annum, plus 17% Super and Leave Loading.

Lead change analysis, readiness and adoption insights that support the University’s enterprise-wide AI platform implementation and related initiatives.

The Opportunity

You will lead the change analysis, organisational readiness, adoption insights and capability assessment workstream for the University’s enterprise-wide AI Platform implementation and related initiatives. Your work will provide the evidence needed to guide implementation planning, program decisions and successful adoption.

You will design and deliver change impact assessments, stakeholder analyses, readiness assessments and capability evaluations. You will translate complex organisational impacts into practical adoption plans, capability initiatives, training requirements, communications and user-focused resources.

Working across organisational change, program delivery, technology, data, Faculties, Schools and professional units, you will develop adoption measures, dashboards and reporting frameworks. You will provide senior specialist advice on readiness, resistance, workforce implications and capability gaps while strengthening change maturity and continuous improvement across the program.

What Success Looks Like:

• Deliver robust change impact, stakeholder and readiness assessments that inform implementation and adoption planning.
• Provide evidence-based advice on adoption risks, workforce implications, resistance patterns and capability gaps.
• Establish meaningful adoption measures, dashboards and reports that produce actionable insights.
• Develop practical training, guidance, communication and capability resources that support new ways of working.
• Build productive relationships across program, technology, data and business areas to validate findings and support adoption.

Please refer to the Position Description for full details.

About You

• Postgraduate qualification in a relevant discipline, or an equivalent combination of relevant experience, education and training.
• Extensive experience as a Senior Change Analyst or in a similar role supporting complex digital transformation initiatives.
• Advanced knowledge of contemporary change methodologies, including impact assessment, stakeholder analysis and readiness evaluation.
• Strong analytical capability, with the ability to translate complex information into practical insights and recommendations.
• Highly developed engagement, facilitation and influencing skills, including experience working with senior leaders and within a higher education context.

We invest in the people who make our mission possible. Alongside a rewarding career, we offer a range of benefits designed to support your financial, personal and family wellbeing.

• Financial benefits: Access to staff-only products and offers with selected banking partners, salary sacrifice options for onsite parking, and novated motor vehicle leasing.
• Health and wellbeing support: Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP), complimentary annual flu vaccination, eligibility for Fitness Passport membership, and access to discounted private health cover.
• Onsite childcare: Long day care and early learning services operate at our Campbelltown, Hawkesbury, Parramatta, and Penrith campuses. Staff may be eligible for discounted fees and salary packaging, with places subject to centre capacity.
• Working Rights: You must provide evidence of full-time working rights in Australia at application.

We are committed to substantive equality as outlined in our Equal Opportunity Policy. We actively encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, candidates of all gender identities and expressions, people of all abilities, and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

For Reasonable Adjustments during the application process, please contact [e-mail].

About Western

This is your opportunity to be part of something bigger. By joining Western Sydney University, you become a valued member of our community. As our region changes, so too does our university. Western is boldly different, energetic, global, diverse, dynamic, and youthful.

Our mission is to deliver student success, impactful research, and stronger communities. As part of our team, you will have a stake in shaping the future of education, broadening horizons, and changing lives. Making a difference starts at Western.

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