"Deputy Faculty Manager (Engineering)"

Job Description:

Pūmanawa Tangata |People, Culture and Campus Life

Located in Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa | New Zealand

• Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
• Permanent position
• Generous annual leave provisions and professional development opportunities

Āu Mahi | What You Will Do

If you thrive in a complex environment, enjoy building meaningful relationships, and are energised by leading people, driving improvement, and contributing to big-picture strategy, this role offers the scope, variety, and impact you’re looking for.

As the Deputy Faculty Manager, you’ll work closely with the Faculty Manager, Executive Dean and Faculty Leadership Team to ensure smooth, aligned, and forward-thinking operations across the faculty. You will:

• Champion faculty operations, ensuring infrastructure, services, and support functions enable world-class teaching, research, and engagement.
• Partner in strategy and planning, using data and insights to inform decision-making and track performance.
• Provide financial leadership, supporting budgeting, forecasting, and building financial capability across the faculty.
• Lead key projects, guiding planning, implementation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Support and optimise Technical Services, ensuring capabilities, equipment, and facilities meet the needs of academic and research activities.
• Strengthen external engagement, supporting industry interactions, advisory boards, and marketing initiatives.
• Lead and develop people, coaching administrative staff and fostering a culture grounded in UC’s values.
• Champion health, safety and wellbeing, embedding best practice across faculty operations.

Mōu | Who You Are

You will have significant experience (10+ years) in operational management within a large and complex environment, as well as have:

• Strong people leadership capability—able to motivate, coach, and influence across diverse teams
• Excellent relationship-building and communication skills, with the diplomacy to navigate challenges constructively
• Proven experience in project and change management, with the ability to lead improvement initiatives
• Strong financial acumen and confidence working with budgets and forecasting
• Advanced general IT competency (Excel, Word, Teams/SharePoint)
• An alignment with our organisation's values and culture, promoting a positive and inclusive work environment.

Mahi Ngātahi | Who You Will Work With

Here at the University of Canterbury we aim to achieve our objectives through a constructive, supportive, and collaborative culture that includes and empowers all members of the UC whānau. Faculty Operations work toward the development of the Faculty Strategic Plan and its translation to annual operational plans, ensuring alignment of the operational and administrative services to the Faculty's teaching and learning and research strategic needs.

Ngā Painga o UC | Why UC

Ngā Uara | Our Values of manaakitanga, whanaungatanga and tiakitanga guide our decisions and behaviour and provide a roadmap for how we do things at UC, affirming our commitment to pastoral care and support for our ākonga and staff. They challenge and inspire us to be the best we can, and make UC a great place to work and study. For more info on Ngā Uara | Our Values visit us here.

We are committed to accessible higher education, service to the community and the encouragement of talent without barriers of distance, wealth, class, gender or ethnicity. The University explicitly aims to produce graduates and support staff who are engaged with their communities, empowered to act for good and determined to make a difference in the world.

We offer a range of fantastic benefits including flexible work practices, study opportunities and generous superannuation and leave provisions. For more information, please visit us: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/about-uc/work-at-uc/benefits-working-uc . For more information about Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury, please visit https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/

The closing date for this position is: 16 December 2025 (midday, NZ time)*Please note applications will be reviewed after the close date.*

Pēhea te tono mai | How You Apply

Applications for this position must be submitted via our careers website and should include a cover letter and resume.

Please note, we do not accept applications by email, however we are happy to answer your queries in relation to the application process, please forward these to WorkatUC@canterbury.ac.nz

You must have Aotearoa New Zealand or Australian citizenship/permanent residency or hold a valid NZ work visa to be considered for this role.

Job Details

Reference #	30200
Posted on	09 Dec 2025
Closes on	16 Dec 2025 23:55
Location(s)	Christchurch
Expertise	Administration, Communications, Consulting & Strategy, Education & Training, Engineering, Finance, General Mgmt/Executive, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, Marketing, Procurement, Project Management, Property Management, Research & Development, Sales / Relationship Management, Science & Technology, Technician, Works, Trades & Services
Job level(s)	Management
Work type(s)	Continuing (Permanent) full-time
More details (document)	Deputy Faculty Manager (Engineering) PD.pdf
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Posted: 09/12/2025