About the Role
The Senior Partner ensures effective partnerships with Deakin's leaders to facilitate contemporary solutions in the digital and physical environments.
Empowered to make decisions, informed by frameworks and governance practices, the Senior Partner provides expert advice, critical thinking and consultancy services across the full range of their specialist area.
Key Responsibilities:
* Build and inspire university leaders to develop and implement digital and physical strategies that align with the university's overall goals and ensure alignment with university strategic priorities.
* Collaborate with senior leaders to define business needs, project objectives, scope, and deliverables, ensuring physical and digital projects/initiatives meet the needs of business areas.
* Identify potential risks related to projects and develop strategies to mitigate.
* Understand environmental trends and integrate this knowledge into business strategies focused on value, revenue, quality, people, efficiency and investment.
* Establish long-term partnerships with leaders, act as a trusted advisor, change direction in alignment with learnings and offer expert solutions and strategies that best serve the area's needs.
Requirements:
* Proven expertise in the management of significant human and material resources.
* Postgraduate qualifications and extensive relevant experience in providing high level and complex advice and services to senior leaders through the establishment of meaningful relationships.
* Experience facilitating leaders through robust practices to enable strategic thinking and solutions for the future.
* Experience as a partner or consultant providing specialist knowledge to stakeholders within a business context.
About Us
Deakin is a Victorian university with a global impact.
We are agile and innovative, and committed to making a positive impact through our excellence in education and research and the contributions we make to the wider community.
We aim to be a catalyst for positive change for the individuals and the communities we serve.
We aspire to be recognised as Australia's most progressive university.
The Infrastructure and Digital Division drives digital innovation at Deakin to deliver intelligent, future-focused solutions that anticipate and respond to digital needs.
We collaborate with managers and members of the University Executive, as well as teachers and students, researchers, support and professional staff, and other members of the University community to harness our digital potential.
Why Work at Deakin
You will enjoy a range of benefits, including various leave options such as generous parental leave and the ability to purchase additional leave; flexible working arrangements to help manage your work-life balance; ongoing learning and development opportunities to advance your career; an inclusive, supportive culture and environment to work in, both online and on campus.
We value diversity and aim to build an inclusive environment that champions, embraces and respects differences.
We support and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people of all abilities, cultures, sexual orientation and genders.