Jobs at The University of Queensland

Coordinates community-led environmental and cultural research projects on Minjerribah, including scheduling, milestones, reporting, culturally safe engagement, data organization, knowledge sharing, and communication between Quandamooka communities and university researchers.

Leads the Graduate Research School’s professional services and strategic direction, supporting more than 4,000 higher degree research candidates. Oversees service delivery, workforce and resource planning, business transformation, cultural change, and operational excellence. Builds partnerships across the university, leads a professional team, and improves the candidate journey from enquiry through thesis submission.

Leads the end-to-end delivery of teaching awards, grants, fellowship programs, and recognition initiatives. Coordinates concurrent program cycles, advises applicants and committees on requirements and governance, manages stakeholder relationships, prepares reporting and recommendations, and improves systems and processes through data-informed decision-making. The role requires strong planning, communication, judgement, attention to detail, and experience managing complex programs or processes.

Coordinates partnerships, stakeholder engagement, research translation, projects, events, budgets, grants, reporting, procurement, HR processes, communications, and university operations supporting climate action initiatives.

Provides specialist technical support across robotics teaching and research laboratories. Responsibilities include designing, operating, maintaining, repairing, and calibrating robotic systems; developing laboratory safety procedures and risk assessments; integrating sensors, actuators, PCBs, embedded systems, ROS2, and hardware-software platforms; and leading training, mentoring, procurement, and infrastructure improvement. The role supports mobile robots, robot arms, aerial platforms, and motion capture environments in a university setting.

Lead end-to-end delivery of concurrent university-wide technology, cybersecurity, digital accessibility, transformation, and service improvement initiatives. Manage schedules, budgets, risks, benefits, dependencies, vendors, governance, and stakeholder communications. Coordinate technical, operational, change, and governance workstreams while supporting application security, risk remediation, compliance, executive reporting, organisational change, and business readiness.

Lead end-to-end pre-award activities for complex national and international research grant rounds. Advise researchers and teams on funding rules, eligibility, compliance, and non-standard matters; coordinate timelines and competing inputs; review applications; deliver guidance, workshops, presentations, and briefings; mentor staff; and improve grant administration systems, workflows, and service delivery.

Partner with senior leaders and chief investigators to provide financial advice, analysis, reporting, cost management, funding oversight, and governance support. The role builds stakeholder relationships, manages complex financial matters, ensures compliance with financial policies and controls, and facilitates collaboration between finance advisory and transaction services teams.

Develop and implement strategic communication and stakeholder engagement programs for infrastructure, campus development, corporate, industry, and government initiatives. Create communication plans and materials, assess stakeholder and reputational impacts, build trusted relationships, support reputation management, and contribute to incident and emerging-issue responses. The role requires strong writing, interpersonal, organisational, analytical, and relationship-management skills in complex environments.

Provides administrative, governance, stakeholder engagement, event, travel, and financial support to a university medical school and its academies. Responsibilities include coordinating meetings and committees, preparing documentation and minutes, tracking actions, maintaining communications and web content, supporting events and recognition initiatives, and assisting senior academic leaders. The role requires strong organization, communication, judgment, Microsoft Office proficiency, and flexibility for occasional out-of-hours event work.

Lead the University’s planning and business intelligence function, advising senior leaders on institutional performance, strategic planning, reporting, analytics, student demand, funding, and resource allocation. Oversee business intelligence, government reporting, forecasting, admissions modelling, dashboards, and strategic analysis. Manage a multidisciplinary team, support evidence-based decision-making, and represent the University with government agencies, sector bodies, and stakeholders.

Provides in-house legal advice across property, commercial, contractual, governance, administrative, privacy, and compliance matters. Drafts and negotiates agreements, leases, property documents, procurement materials, and collaboration contracts. Advises senior leaders, manages legal risks, supports statutory interpretation and policy development, and builds stakeholder relationships. The role requires a Queensland-admitted solicitor or barrister with relevant property and commercial law experience and strong drafting, negotiation, judgment, and communication skills.

Lead the strategic and operational delivery of payroll, superannuation, salary packaging, remuneration, and employee benefits across a large university. Manage a team of specialists, ensure legislative and governance compliance, oversee reporting and payroll risk, advise stakeholders on complex remuneration matters, and drive process, systems, and service improvements.

Independently manage editorial and production lifecycles for adult fiction, nonfiction, and children’s titles from manuscript to print. Responsibilities include structural and copy editing, manuscript assessment, author and supplier relationship management, project coordination, cover copy and marketing content creation, and collaboration with sales and marketing teams while meeting deadlines and budgets.

Leads UQ International Development’s project delivery portfolio, overseeing complex internationally funded programs, governance, finances, contracts, risk, monitoring, evaluation, and stakeholder relationships. Provides strategic leadership, manages multidisciplinary teams, drives process improvement, supports tenders and business planning, and develops long-term international development opportunities with governments, donors, researchers, contractors, and global partners.

Seeking candidates for casual administrative roles at the University of Queensland, including tasks like managing diaries, organizing travel, and conducting research.

The Indigenous Graduate Program at UQ offers recent Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander graduates career acceleration through practical skill development and tailored training for professional growth.