Jobs at Griffith University

Develop and implement marketing initiatives to recruit international students from China. Manage education agents, strategic partners, and stakeholders; support student counselling, conversion, and enrolment outcomes; identify recruitment opportunities; and strengthen Griffith University's profile in Greater China. The consultant will work cross-culturally, operate independently, support compliance with Australian higher education frameworks, and travel regularly within China and occasionally to Australia.

Leads Griffith University's four-year Cyber Security Improvement Program, overseeing strategy, governance, budgets, resources, risks, suppliers, assurance, reporting, stakeholder engagement, organisational change, and benefits realisation. Advises executives and governance committees, coordinates multiple projects and workstreams, leads program staff, and ensures measurable improvements in cyber resilience, maturity, capability, and compliance.

Creates, edits, and optimizes strategic content for Griffith University’s marketing, brand, and student recruitment activities. Produces copy for websites, publications, emails, and other owned channels; translates complex information into accessible narratives; manages multiple projects and stakeholders; champions writing standards, content quality, and consistency; and supports content strategy and approved AI-tool adoption. The role requires strong writing, audience insight, content optimization, and stakeholder influence.

Manages financial reporting and compliance for research projects, including preparing financial statements, journals, budgets, project closures, and funding-body requests. Liaises with Chief Investigators and external stakeholders, ensures data accuracy and adherence to reporting standards, prioritizes portfolio activities, and contributes to problem-solving, knowledge sharing, and process improvement.

Coordinates cyber security uplift projects by maintaining schedules, reports, risk and action registers, budgets, procurement records, contracts, and governance documentation. Supports project and program managers with stakeholder communication, vendor coordination, financial tracking, reporting, and escalation of risks and dependencies. The role also assists with change management, communications, and user adoption activities across cross-functional technical and business teams.

Coordinates research development initiatives, capacity-building programs, strategic projects, grant activities, partnerships, communications, and research governance. Provides advice to university leaders and researchers, analyzes performance data, prepares reports and briefings, supports funding success, and enhances research visibility and impact across the School of Education and Professional Studies and Griffith Institute for Educational Research.

Leads research development initiatives across the School of Education and Professional Studies and Griffith Institute for Educational Research. Coordinates research groups, capacity-building programs, grants, partnerships, communications, knowledge translation, reporting, governance, and strategic planning. Advises senior leaders and researchers, analyzes research performance data, supports funding success, and builds relationships with internal and external stakeholders to strengthen research culture, visibility, impact, and engagement.

Supports online and on-campus library clients and staff by providing information services, complex enquiry guidance, training, service evaluation, policy development, and client-experience improvements. The role collaborates across library teams, contributes to small projects and engagement activities, and supports responsive, user-focused services across Griffith University locations.

Manages end-to-end contracts for commercial research projects, including review, negotiation, execution, compliance, and supporting documentation. Advises stakeholders on legal and institutional policies, prepares complex tenders and proposals, coordinates with academics, legal teams, insurers, ethics teams, and industry partners, and drives process improvements across research administration. The role also provides paralegal review of agreements and expert policy guidance.

Manages end-to-end contracting for commercial research projects, including contract review, negotiation, execution, compliance, and supporting documentation. Advises stakeholders on legal and institutional policy requirements, prepares complex tender and proposal materials, coordinates with academic, legal, insurance, ethics, government, and industry partners, and leads process improvements across research administration.

Leads medtech commercialisation and strategic partnerships for university research, including identifying intellectual property, assessing early-stage technologies, negotiating licences and research agreements, and establishing start-ups. Manages the full IP commercialisation process while building relationships with researchers and external partners. Requires strong medtech or digital health expertise, business development capability, and experience negotiating commercialisation transactions.

Leads medtech commercialisation for Griffith University, identifying and assessing intellectual property, developing partnerships, negotiating licences and research agreements, and establishing start-ups. Manages the commercialisation and IP process from early-stage research through deal completion, working with researchers and external partners across medical devices and digital health. Requires strong medtech technical knowledge, business development expertise, IP management capability, and experience negotiating commercial transactions.

Prepare and maintain clinical teaching laboratories and simulation environments for Nursing and Midwifery students. Provide technical support for practical classes, manage equipment, consumables, stock control and procurement, and promote safe, compliant work practices. Collaborate with academic and professional staff to support high-quality student learning and continuous improvement. The role requires practical experience in healthcare, clinical learning, laboratory, simulation or technical support environments, along with strong organisation, communication and problem-solving skills.

Provides advice and intake services for complaints, academic integrity matters, reviews, and appeals. The role triages cases, conducts risk assessments, manages low-risk student matters, coordinates confidential records, supports governance committees, and administers declarations of interest. It also improves complaints frameworks and systems, monitors trends and systemic risks, develops guidance and training resources, and collaborates across the university to ensure compliant, consistent case resolution.

Leads the University's privacy compliance program, overseeing RTI and privacy complaint investigations, regulatory liaison, policy updates, training, audits, risk assessments, privacy impact assessments, reporting, and corrective actions. Advises senior leadership and privacy champions, monitors legislative changes, manages systemic privacy issues, and supports continuous improvement of the University's privacy framework.

Conduct doctoral research on the responsible design, evaluation, and governance of infrastructure for agentic AI systems. Develop methods to improve reliability, accountability, and resilience in shared runtimes, including agent memory, shared state, tool-use workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, context management, and runtime monitoring. The candidate will collaborate with academic, industry, and interdisciplinary partners through an ARC Linkage Project.

Leads the Mechanical Workshop team delivering fabrication, machining, welding, assembly, repair, and prototyping services. Coordinates projects, procurement, schedules, resources, quality, safety, and client requirements. Provides technical guidance on equipment, maintenance, training, and operations while mentoring staff and driving continuous improvement. Requires TIG welding expertise, broad materials and workshop equipment experience, and preferably CNC manufacturing capability.

Manage the formative development of the Griffith Head and Neck Centre by supporting strategy, business planning, governance, partnerships, programs, major projects, financial oversight, performance monitoring, and long-term sustainability. The role works across Griffith University, Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, and external industry, government, philanthropic, academic, and clinical partners. This is a part-time, five-year fixed-term position based at the Gold Coast campus.

Manufacture, modify, maintain and repair mechanical equipment and components for teaching, research and consultancy. Interpret technical drawings, operate machining and welding equipment, advise staff and students, diagnose faults, conduct repairs, provide workshop safety training, manage records and inventory, support procurement, and maintain a safe, compliant and efficient mechanical workshop.

The School Manager advises the Head of School and executive team on university policies, operations, business processes, budgeting, resource management, and external engagement. The role supports academic work allocation, leads business improvement and change initiatives, manages professional staff, and contributes to strategic and operational objectives. It also requires preparing briefings, reports, and financial information while supporting high-quality teaching and student experiences.