- Full time continuing opportunity
- Exciting opportunity to connect strategy, operations, and stakeholder leadership in one role
- Base Salary $131,108 - $147,858 + 17% superannuation
About the opportunity
About the Role
This is a unique opportunity to step into a leadership role spanning both a clinical school and precinct environment within the Faculty of Medicine and Health.
Operating at the intersection of university and health systems, this role plays a critical part in ensuring the smooth delivery of day-to-day operations while enabling strong collaboration across academic, clinical, and health service partners.
You will be a key connector across teams, helping to keep priorities moving, strengthening relationships, and ensuring operational effectiveness in a complex and fast-moving environment.
As Operations Manager, you will lead operational and administrative functions across the Clinical School and Precinct, working closely with senior academic and clinical leaders.
This role requires someone who is equally comfortable managing systems and processes as they are working with senior stakeholders to navigate competing priorities and deliver outcomes.
Your key responsibilities
You will play a key role in keeping the precinct running smoothly by:
- leading operational and administrative service delivery across the clinical school and precinct
- coordinating workflows and priorities across multiple teams and stakeholders
- building and maintaining relationships with external health partners, including local health districts
- managing the flow of information, correspondence, and reporting across leadership teams
- preparing key documentation including reports, agendas, and meeting materials
- overseeing financial processes including expenditure tracking and budget support
About You
You are an experienced operations professional who thrives in complex, relationship-driven environments where influence is just as important as process. While the role is predominantly based in the Susan Wakil Health Building you are willing to travel across Central precinct locations (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney Dental Hospital and Canterbury Hospital)
You bring:
- experience in operational leadership or professional services management
- strong stakeholder engagement skills across academic, clinical, or health environments
- proven ability to work across organisational boundaries in complex settings
- sound financial management experience, including budgets and expenditure oversight
- strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities
- clear and effective communication skills, with the ability to translate complexity into actionable information
Sponsorship / work rights for Australia
You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this employment to be eligible to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment.
Pre-employment checks and declarations
Your employment is conditional upon the successful completion of all pre-employment or background checks required for the role in terms satisfactory to the University. Also, to meet the University’s obligations under the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Eliminate Gender-Based Violence you will be asked to declare if you have been investigated for, or found to engaged in, sexual harm or gender-based violence in the course of previous employment or in a legal process. Similarly, your ongoing employment is conditional upon the satisfactory maintenance of all relevant clearances and background check requirements. If you do not meet these conditions, the University may take any necessary step, including the termination of your employment.
EEO statement
At the University of Sydney, our shared values are trust, accountability and excellence and we strive to be a place where everyone can thrive. We are committed to creating a University community that thrives through diversity and reflects the wider community that we serve. We deliver on this through our commitment to diversity and inclusion, evidenced by our people and culture programs, as well as key strategies to increase participation and support the careers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people living with a disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and those who identify as LGBTQIA+. We welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds.
We are proud to be recognised as an Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) Platinum Employer. Find out more about our work on diversity and inclusion.
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 Lena Germinarios, Recruitment Operations by email to [email protected]
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Applications Close
Tuesday 07 July 2026 11:59 PMSkills Required
- Unrestricted work rights in Australia (visa sponsorship not available)
- Experience in operational leadership or professional services management
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills across academic, clinical, or health environments
- Proven ability to work across organisational boundaries in complex settings
- Sound financial management experience, including budgets and expenditure oversight
- Strong organisational skills with ability to manage competing priorities
- Clear and effective communication skills; ability to translate complexity into actionable information
- Willingness to travel across Central precinct locations (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Concord, Sydney Dental Hospital, Canterbury Hospital)
- Ability to prepare reports, agendas, meeting materials and manage information flow
- Successful completion of pre-employment/background checks and declarations (including disclosures related to gender-based violence investigations)
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