Strategic Workforce Intelligence Lead

Full-time

Job Description

• Full-time, Ongoing position at HEW Level 9.
• Hawkesbury campus with flexible working arrangements.
• Salary: $134,981 – $144,149 per annum, plus 17% Super and Leave Loading.

Lead workforce data governance and drive enterprise confidence in strategic workforce insights.

The Opportunity

Western Sydney University is seeking a Strategic Workforce Intelligence Lead to steward the University’s workforce data domain and embed robust, enterprise-wide governance. This role provides authoritative leadership across workforce data standards, definitions and quality controls, ensuring the organisation can rely on consistent, accurate and trusted information for strategic decision making.

You will partner closely with the University Data Office to maintain domain stewardship and uplift workforce data maturity. The role also owns and assures a finite set of executive-critical dashboards and automated reporting cycles, enabling senior leaders to navigate workforce risk, forecasting and scenario planning with confidence. While the role influences and shapes analytics products across the organisation, operational BI production remains with other analytics teams.

This is an opportunity to contribute strategically to major organisational initiatives, ensuring that workforce data integrity, risk management and governance are at the forefront. Your work will help strengthen enterprise capability, stabilise key reporting assets and embed a cohesive workforce data environment that supports long-term planning.

What Success Looks Like:

• Enterprise workforce data governance is clearly defined, embedded and trusted across stakeholders.
• Workforce data quality controls, definitions and standards are maintained and consistently applied.
• Executive-critical dashboards and reporting cycles operate reliably, accurately and in alignment with organisational priorities.
• Senior leaders receive clear, actionable insights that support workforce forecasting, risk identification and strategic decision making.
• Data issues, anomalies and systemic risks are proactively identified, validated and escalated with appropriate enterprise responses.

Please refer to the Position Description for full details.

About You

• You bring postgraduate qualifications and/or substantial experience in workforce analytics, HRIS, business intelligence, data science or a related discipline.
• You are confident advising senior executives, distilling complex datasets and shaping strategic recommendations.
• You have proven expertise in workforce data governance, quality assurance and enterprise data standards.
• You are an effective communicator, able to translate complex issues into clear executive-ready insights.
• You work autonomously under broad direction, exercising sound judgement in complex and ambiguous environments.

Benefits

We invest in the people who make our mission possible. Beyond a rewarding career, we offer a suite of benefits designed to support your physical, financial, and family wellbeing:

• Fitness Passport: Access hundreds of gyms and pools across the state.
• Onsite Childcare: Convenient facilities with exclusive staff discounts and salary packaging options.
• Financial Benefits: Salary sacrifice options for onsite parking and novated motor vehicle leasing,
• Holistic Support: Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP) along with discounted retail and private health cover.

Application Details

• Position Enquiries: Direct to Ben Kerr, Director HR Operations & Enablement via ben.kerr@westernsydney.edu.au. Please include the job reference code REF1044I.
• Closing Date: 11:59pm, Sunday 1 March 2026.
• Working Rights: You must provide evidence of full-time working rights in Australia at application.
• How to Apply: Please note that only applications submitted via the University’s online recruitment system will be considered.

Belonging at Western

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 accessibility@westernsydney.edu.au.

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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