"Manager, Education Innovation and Design"

• Full time, 2-year fixed term or secondment opportunity until April 2028 - located at Darlington Campus (J12), within the Faculty of Engineering
• A rare opportunity to lead a team of 6+ Educational Designers, while providing sound strategic advice and operational support.
• Contribute to learning and teaching improvement projects within a Faculty that is a passionate leader in creating a digital, sustainable and healthier future.
• Base Salary HEO9 $146,197 - $154,260 + 17% superannuation

About the opportunity

The Faculty of Engineering is welcoming applications for Manager, Education Innovation and Design.

We are seeking an outcomes-driven Manager with strong people leadership and a clear service focus. This role leads a high-performing team to deliver consistent, meaningful, high-quality and impactful work in a complex academic environment.

You will lead through collaboration, working closely with academic leaders and professional staff to understand needs, solve problems, and improve quality, consistency, and the student experience, with a strong focus on information management, clarity of content, multi-media knowledge and tech-enabled ways of working. The role requires the ability to set clear priorities, drive delivery, and provide confident, effective leadership.

As Manager, you will lead Engineering unit reviews, Canvas site design, start to semester tasks and the implementation of teaching and learning materials, ensuring content is clear, student friendly, and fit for purpose. You will combine this with strong leadership to guide the team and stakeholders toward practical, high-impact outcomes. Excellent stakeholder engagement is critical to success in this role, as is the ability to balance strategic thinking with responsive, high-quality service delivery.

The Education Design team, embedded within schools, plays a pivotal role in advancing the Faculty's education agenda. The team partners with academics in schools to deliver hands-on support in contemporary education design, digital capability, and student-centred learning, enabling scalable, high-impact programs across a diverse portfolio of initiatives.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight, working closely with the Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching), Head of Education Services and key stakeholders to communicate progress and delivery outcomes
• Lead the design and delivery of high-quality learning experiences at unit level, overseeing assessment design, ensuring constructive alignment, evidence-based pedagogy and a user-centred approach across the LMS and related tools
• Drive excellence in standards and practice, ensuring effective use of platforms and compliance with institutional and external requirements
• Lead complex, multi-stream initiatives, managing scope, ambiguity, timelines, risks, dependencies and governance across faculties and central units
• Build and lead a high-performing team of educational designers, providing coaching, clear workload direction and ongoing capability development

About you

The University values courage and creativity; openness and engagement; inclusion and diversity; and respect and integrity. As such, we see the importance of recruiting talent aligned to these values and are looking for a Manager Education Innovation and Design who has:

• excellent planning, organisational and time management skills, paired with the ability to work both autonomously and within a team environment while managing diverse and concurrent tasks with multiple deadlines during busy periods
• demonstrated experience in the supervision, training, mentoring and performance management of staff; as well as experience managing and resolving a diverse range of HR issues
• experience delivering education programmes, preferably in a tertiary education environment
• experience with working knowledge of using Learning Management Systems such as Canvas
• extensive knowledge of University policies and procedures and administrative processes within a tertiary environment

Work Rights

You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this employment to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment.

How to apply

Applications (including a cover letter, CV, and any additional supporting documentation) can be submitted via the Apply button at the top of the page.

For employees of the University or contingent workers, please login into your Workday account and navigate to the Career icon on your Dashboard. Click on USYD Find Jobs and apply.

For a confidential discussion about the role, or if you require reasonable adjustment or any documents in alternate formats, please contact Deepna Chand, Recruitment Operations by email to recruitment.sea@sydney.edu.au or Sylvia.lohrengel@sydney.edu.au, Head, Education Services at Engineering.

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Applications Close

Thursday 09 April 2026 11:59 PM