Content Strategy Lead

About the Role

The Content Strategy Lead supports the Associate Director, Content and Digital Library Strategy in delivering the Flinders University Library's strategy and operations.

This role oversees the Collection Strategy and Information Management Strategy teams, ensuring the delivery of relevant collections, high-quality research publications metadata, open access compliance, and effective records management and archival services. The position is also responsible for the financial management of the collections budget and for meeting agreed budget targets.

As a critical member of the Library leadership team, this role gives you the opportunity to have real influence while you contribute to our strong “One Library” ethos. This collegial team enjoy the benefits of seeing their work in action, in real time, while working towards Flinders bold ambition of Changing 10 million lives for the better by 2035

About You

With demonstrated senior experience in an academic library, you have comprehensive people leadership skills, including the ability to lead through workplace change, manage projects and coordinate teams to achieve successful outcomes. Your depth of knowledge with analytics and data management enable you to provide an evidence basis for strategic decision- making, alongside a well‑developed grasp of financial planning and budget oversight.

Your exemplary written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills in both digital and face-to- face environments will be key to your success as you develop new initiatives, while creating and leveraging collaborative relations across and outside the organisation, (including vendors and publishers).

The ideal candidate will also hold a relevant university degree in the information science domain: (e.g. Library and information Science,) or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training. Eligibility for membership of the Australian Library and Information Association is desirable.

If you feel you don’t have all of the experience we are asking for, but that your skills are transferrable, we’d still love to hear from you.

About Flinders University Library

The Library is a vital part of the student experience, creating welcoming spaces and meaningful support for all students, including those far from home. Out initiatives are shaped by student voices through collaborating with, listening to and adapting their ideas, such as expanding student access across all of our campuses, introducing a Sensory Space at the Central Library and developing Ai tools, to name just a few. We empower learning, expand access and drive impact to foster academic excellence, and are deepening our impact as a research partner by driving innovation, expanding support and strengthening global visibility

Our cornerstone is the commitment to fostering a connected, inclusive and forward-thinking Library, to ensure that our community has the spaces, support and recourses to continue to thrive.

Life at Flinders

We're transforming and investing in people and facilities to create contemporary, stimulating, and satisfying learning and work environments that reflect our core values of excellence, innovation, courage, and integrity. Flinders is refocusing its strategic priorities with the aim of elevating its performance to be a top ten Australian university, and amongst the top 1% in the world.

Reaching beyond the limits of buildings, borders, and backgrounds, ours is an inclusive culture that believes absolutely in equality and opportunity for all. We don't just accommodate differences; we embrace and celebrate them. So, why work at Flinders? Click on the link to read about the many benefits of working for Flinders, from Wellbeing, Leave& Career Development to Salary & Superannuation and Life on Campus

Our Commitment to Reconciliation and Indigenous Employment

Flinders University is proud to be an organisation that is committed to our Reconciliation Action Plan and Indigenous Workforce Strategy. Our vision is to be a preferred employer for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We are committed to progressing Indigenous advancement in education, research, employment, and wellbeing, and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for all Flinders vacancies.

• Please see here for our Reconciliation Action Plan
• Please see here for our Indigenous Workforce Strategy

Prescribed Conditions for Employment

Flinders University is committed to providing a safe, respectful and inclusive environment, free from gender based violence. Appointment to this role is conditional on the completion of required pre employment checks and declarations, each of which must be satisfactory to the University. This includes a Gender Based Violence declaration, in accordance with the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender Based Violence (2025), and a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify a candidate from consideration. Each case will be assessed on its individual merits and relevance to the inherent requirements of the role.

How to Apply and Information

You are required to submit a Resume along with a Suitability Statement as a separate document of no more than 3 pages, addressing the below Key Position capabilities of the position description.

• Demonstrated broad to extensive experience in leading and supporting managers to deliver responsive, effective, consistent and innovative services.
• Demonstrated broad to extensive experience in managing budgets, financial analysis and reporting
• Demonstrated experience in planning, prioritising and allocating human and financial resources to meet strategic priorities.
• Broad to extensive consultation, negotiation and interpersonal communication skills with capacity to influence people and behaviour; effective written and verbal reporting skills.

For more information regarding this position, please contact Melinda Dodd

Certification
National Police Certificate - Australian Federal Police

Applications to be submitted before 10.00pm:
20 May 2026

At Flinders we embrace and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, ethnicities, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities.

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