Strategic Leader, Faculty Partnerships & Recruitment

University of Sydney; Darlington; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Sydney is seeking an experienced Associate Director, Faculty Partnerships to lead the delivery of strategic student recruitment services across faculties and schools. This role shapes the Faculty Partnerships offering, aligns strategic plans with university targets, and partners with Sydney Future Students to drive evidence-based recruitment strategies.

You will lead planning, data-driven reporting and senior-level stakeholder engagement, manage budgets, and foster a culture of

Qualifications

• substantial understanding of university faculty/school-based needs in managing their student recruitment objectives
• high-level planning and organisational skills, and the ability to coordinate multiple streams of stakeholders
• highly developed leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, including skills in large-scale, complex team and stakeholder management and internal relationship building, negotiation, influencing and motivation, and the ability to prioritise and effectively manage team workloads
• superior relationship management skills and capacity to manage competing needs of diverse stakeholders, with various time and resource limitations
• previous experience in higher education leadership, and working knowledge of university, faculty, and school-level planning, reporting and governance.

Responsibilities

• lead the team’s key strategic planning activities, including the development of strategic, operational, and business plans aligned with university-wide targets and faculty priorities
• lead and provide high-level analysis and information in support of the achievement of SFS’s strategic goals
• work with the leadership team to develop and deliver high-quality reports on market and student demand trends, intake scenarios, profiles, course and field of education, and subject-specific rankings and changes, and competitors’ activities.
• ensure the Faculty Partnerships team has a clear understanding of faculty and school-level objectives and a means to provide regular updates on student recruitment activities to the Associate Vice-President, SFS leadership, Deans, faculty and school staff and faculty/school Marketing and Communications teams
• support university product development, review and market analysis projects, contributing to university-wide and faculty curriculum projects, engaging and coordinating input from other members of the Sydney Future Students leadership team
• manage the allocation of resources, ensuring alignment with the strategic direction of student recruitment, including developing and monitoring the allocated faculty/school-level budgets within Faculty Partnerships
• facilitate evidence-based decision-making by supporting the development of data, product, market, and student recruitment reporting literacy for the Faculty Partnerships team as required
• build and foster a culture of innovation, creativity, excellence, collaboration and accountability.

Skills

Strategic planning

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Data analytics

Project management

Job description

The University of Sydney is seeking an experienced Associate Director, Faculty Partnerships to lead the delivery of strategic student recruitment services across faculties and schools. This role shapes the Faculty Partnerships offering, aligns strategic plans with university targets, and partners with Sydney Future Students to drive evidence-based recruitment strategies.

You will lead planning, data-driven reporting and senior-level stakeholder engagement, manage budgets, and foster a culture of