Jobs at Western Sydney University

Provides strategic marketing leadership for a designated university faculty, developing recruitment and communications plans, advising stakeholders, identifying market opportunities, and coordinating content, creative, paid media, and digital teams. The role leads campaigns, product positioning, performance reporting, risk management, and continuous improvement to support undergraduate and postgraduate student recruitment targets.

Conduct field, glasshouse, and laboratory research investigating acid soil tolerance in canola. Apply plant phenotyping, molecular biology, genomic, genetic, and bioinformatics methods to identify tolerance traits, genomic regions, and candidate genes. Analyze complex datasets, publish findings, present at conferences, collaborate with academic and industry partners, mentor research students, contribute to funding applications, and support teaching and outreach.

Leads complex workplace relations, employment, enterprise bargaining, dispute resolution, investigations, misconduct, performance, and workplace conflict matters across the University. Advises senior leaders, represents the employer in negotiations and proceedings, maintains union relationships, interprets industrial instruments, develops workplace policies, and identifies industrial risks through workplace trend analysis.

Coordinate digital manufacturing projects and systems supporting applied research, industry partnerships, training, and technology demonstrations. Operate, maintain, and improve digital twins, simulation, additive manufacturing, automation, sensing, and data-driven production technologies. Provide technical advice on capability, roadmaps, and investment priorities; support partner trials and solution development; ensure safe and compliant operations; and contribute to Industry 4.0 and 5.0 workshops and credentials.

Support accurate, compliant payroll operations through validation checks, reconciliations, variance analysis, compliance reporting, superannuation and tax processing, audit support, documentation, and governance improvements. The role interprets enterprise agreements and payroll legislation, processes complex terminations and backpays, maintains employee master data and pay-code controls, advises People Operations staff, and supports internal and external audits.

Manage university-wide procurement activities, including sourcing, tendering, contract management, supplier support, procurement governance, risk management, reporting, and stakeholder training. The role ensures purchasing complies with university policies, legislative requirements, and probity obligations while improving sustainable procurement outcomes and supporting teaching, research, and operational priorities.

Provides specialist governance advice and high-level secretariat support to university committees. Coordinates agendas, papers, minutes, correspondence, meetings, outcomes and confidential records. Manages complex matters including appeals, elections, subpoenas and delegations; interprets policies and regulations; supports policy development; advises senior stakeholders; identifies governance risks; improves processes and systems; and contributes to team capability.

Provides professional counselling, psychoeducation, case management and wellbeing support to university students across individual, group, phone, face-to-face and electronic services. Responsibilities include needs and risk assessment, critical incident response, recordkeeping, referrals, advocacy, staff consultation and training, prevention initiatives, and service improvement using feedback, data and practice insights.

Provides specialist technical support for digital media teaching and research across studios, practical classes, laboratories, and facilities. Responsibilities include preparing spaces and equipment, supporting Adobe, Figma, Unity, web and app development tools, maintaining software and project templates, assisting with C# debugging, explaining technical methods, managing facilities, and improving safety, procedures, and service delivery.

Leads the Social Work discipline through academic and people leadership, advancing curriculum quality, research excellence, postgraduate supervision, community partnerships, external funding, and inclusive educational practice. The role oversees undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD education; mentors academic staff; strengthens relationships with industry, government, professional bodies, and communities; and contributes to School Executive governance and strategic direction.

Lead and advance machine learning research and teaching as a professorial lead. Set research direction across deep learning, NLP, data science and theoretical foundations; mentor staff and HDR candidates; develop curriculum; build industry, employer and government partnerships; and promote responsible, trustworthy AI with impact beyond academia.

Lead change management and adoption across a portfolio of strategic initiatives. Assess impacts, map stakeholders, develop change and communication plans, coordinate training, support senior sponsors, report to governance bodies, and create change frameworks and tools. Lead a small team while ensuring stakeholders adopt new processes, systems, and ways of working, benefits are realised, and operational risks are managed.

Lead strategic financial partnering across university portfolios, advising senior leaders on financial strategy, risk, and performance. Oversee budgets, forecasts, reporting, financial models, and scenario planning using TM1, GLwand, and Oracle. Strengthen financial controls, processes, accountability, and reporting quality while contributing to major projects and change initiatives. Mentor finance staff, represent Finance on committees, and build financial capability across the University.

Lead teaching, research, curriculum innovation, external engagement, and strategic initiatives in artificial intelligence, business analytics, digital technologies, and responsible AI. The Professor will build the discipline’s research and education capabilities, maintain an international academic reputation, secure external funding, supervise higher degree researchers, mentor academic staff, and develop relationships with industry, government, professional bodies, and communities.

Design, develop, maintain, and support secure integration services and APIs across university systems. Build Azure Data Factory pipelines, resolve complex integration issues, improve performance, implement monitoring, testing, automation, and quality assurance, and ensure alignment with architecture, security, governance, and data strategy requirements. Collaborate with data engineers, platform teams, and stakeholders while documenting technical solutions and data flows.

Provides project and operational support for the Whitlam Institute, coordinating communications, marketing, events, exhibitions, stakeholder engagement, budgets, logistics, timelines, digital channels, CRM records, publications, grants, reporting and visitor services. The role supports promotional content, invitations, events, exhibitions and public-facing activities across multiple channels while maintaining accurate operational records.

Coordinate and deliver the ARC Training Centre's education and training programs: develop the Training and Education Plan, create materials for varied audiences, organise workshops and events, manage online content and reporting, support HDR student wellbeing, and build stakeholder relationships across academics, industry and schools.

Conduct field and controlled-environment research on drought-resilient cropping systems, designing experiments, collecting and analysing field, laboratory and sensor data, publishing peer-reviewed outputs, engaging with industry stakeholders, contributing to grant development, and co-supervising students. Work includes field trials at regional NSW research centres and adherence to research governance, outreach and occasional teaching.