Job Description

UNSW Business School

• Employment Type: Full time (35 hours per week)
• Duration: 2 years fixed term
• Remuneration: Level 8 from $127,351 plus 17% superannuation contributions and annual leave loading
• Location: UNSW Kensington Campus, Sydney

About UNSW

UNSW isn’t like other places you’ve worked. Yes, we’re a large organisation with a diverse and talented community; a community doing extraordinary things. Together, we are driven to be thoughtful, practical, and purposeful in all we do. Taking this combined approach is what makes our work matter. It’s the reason we’re one of the top 20 universities in the world (QS top 20) and a member of Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight. If you want a career where you can thrive, be challenged and do meaningful work, you’re in the right place.

The Project and Communications Manager plays a key role within UNSW Business School in providing strategic and practical project management and communications support for the Business School’s Academic Calendar Transition (flex-semester) and related curriculum transformation activities.

The role entails designing and implementing the Faculty’s change approach, coordinating stakeholder engagement and readiness activities, developing clear and consistent staff and student communications, and supporting Schools to manage inquiries and adoption in a structured and consistent manner. The role integrates the Business School’s messaging and engagement approach with central program office governance and student communications processes. In addition, the role provides day-to-day project support to the Project Manager to assist with the coordination and delivery of the broader Academic Calendar Project.

The role will support the Education Portfolio and Faculty leadership in enabling consistent implementation across eight Schools. The role works closely with School leaders, Student Communications Coordinators, student Experience Business Partner, Student Inquiries Operations Manager and the Academic Calendar Program Communications Lead in the Provost Office.

This is a full-time, fixed-term opportunity for two years, offering the chance to play a visible and influential role in a major faculty-wide transformation. You will sit at the intersection of change, communications and project delivery, helping academic and professional staff navigate new ways of working with confidence and clarity. Success in this role will see you translating complex requirements into practical guidance, building strong relationships across diverse stakeholder groups, and ensuring messaging and engagement activities are timely, consistent and effective. It is well suited to an experienced change or communications professional who enjoys working in a complex environment, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, and contributing to outcomes that directly shape the staff and student experience.

The role reports to the Academic Calendar Transition Lead Project Manager and has no direct reports.

Some Key Skills Required

• Relevant tertiary qualification with subsequent relevant experience or equivalent competence gained through any combination of education, training and experience.
• Proven experience in change management or stakeholder engagement, with an understanding of change frameworks, readiness assessment approaches and structured engagement planning.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to translate complex policy, governance and operational information into clear and practical guidance.
• Demonstrated success working effectively and collaboratively on initiatives with a range of people at different levels within an organisation, including academic leaders and professional staff.
• Experience coordinating communications within formal governance or approvals environments.
• Ability to develop and monitor a change approach, including stakeholder analysis, engagement planning and readiness tracking.
• Demonstrated capability to assess and manage change- and project-related risks and issues, and implement practical mitigation strategies.
• Experience designing and delivering workshops, briefing sessions and guidance materials to support stakeholder understanding and adoption.

To learn more about this position and view the full list of criteria a copy of the Position Description can be accessed by clicking on the position description button below this ad.

Benefits and Culture

People are at the core of everything we do. We recognise it is the contributions of our staff who make UNSW one of the best universities in Australia and the world. Our benefits include:

• Flexible Working Options (work from home, flexible hours etc)
• Career development opportunities
• 17% Superannuation contributions and additional leave loading payments
• Additional 3 days of leave over Christmas period
• Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness)

How to Apply

Make each day matter with a meaningful career at UNSW. Submit your application online before Sunday 14th June 2026 at 11:55pm Please upload your CV and a document (max 1-2 pages) outlining how your skills and experience match the skills and experience listed in the position description (Selection Criteria). A copy of the Position Description can be on JOBS@UNSW.

You should systematically address the selection criteria listed within the position description in your application.

Pre-Employment Checks

Aligned with UNSW’s focus on cultivating a workplace defined by safety, ethical conduct, and strong integrity preferred candidates will be required to participate in a combination of pre-employment checks relevant to the role they have applied for.

These pre-employment checks may include a combination of some of the following checks:

• National and International Criminal history checks
• Entitlement to work and ID checks
• Working With Children Checks
• Completion of a Gender-Based Violence Prevention Declaration
• Verification of relevant qualifications
• Verification of relevant professional membership
• Employment history and reference checks
• Financial responsibility assessments/checks
• Medical Checks and Assessments.

Compliance with the necessary combination of these checks is a condition of employment at UNSW.

Get in Touch

Anabel Wason

Talent Acquisition Partner

a.wason@unsw.edu.au

Please apply through the application portal and not via the contact above.

UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion. Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff. The University reserves the right not to proceed with any appointment.