Change Management Specialist

Position Details

• Fixed term (December 2026) | Full-Time

• Higher Education Officer Level 8 | $113,677 - $125,848

• Location: Bedford Park / Kaurna Country

• View Position Description

About the Role

As a Change Management Specialist, you will lead the design and delivery of comprehensive change strategies that enable successful adoption of new processes, systems, and ways of working across student and education projects.

You will partner with senior leaders, project managers, and stakeholders to assess readiness, identify impacts, and develop tailored engagement plans. Your work will include creating communication strategies, facilitating workshops, and providing coaching to build change capability across the University.

This role is critical to ensuring that transformation initiatives deliver measurable benefits and align with Flinders’ strategic objectives.

To learn more about the role and responsibilities, please view the Position Description

About You

You are an experienced change practitioner with a strong understanding of change management frameworks and methodologies. You excel at building relationships and influencing stakeholders at all levels, and you have a proven ability to manage resistance and foster commitment to change.

Your communication skills allow you to translate complex concepts into clear, actionable messages. Experience in higher education or large-scale transformation programs will be highly regarded, along with a proactive, solutions-focused mindset.
 

About the Office of Academic Quality and Enhancement, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Students) Portfolio

The Office of Academic Quality and Enhancement, led by the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic Quality and Enhancement), is responsible for key functions that support the University’s academic standards and student experience. These include Curriculum Services, Student Policy and Integrity Services, Academic Quality, Compliance and Risk and Strategic Projects.

Within the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Students) Portfolio, the Strategic Projects team plays a vital role in supporting strategic and operational priorities across student-related and academic services. This work underpins the University’s values and ethos, strengthens our impact and engagement, and supports our vision to be internationally recognised as a world leader in research, an innovator in contemporary education, and the home of Australia’s most enterprising graduates.

Life at Flinders

We're transforming and investing in people and facilities to create contemporary, stimulating, and satisfying learning and work environments that reflect our core values of excellence, innovation, courage, and integrity. Flinders is refocusing its strategic priorities with the aim of elevating its performance to be a top ten Australian university, and amongst the top 1% in the world.

Reaching beyond the limits of buildings, borders, and backgrounds, ours is an inclusive culture that believes absolutely in equality and opportunity for all. We don't just accommodate differences; we embrace and celebrate them.

So, why work at Flinders?

• 17% Superannuation + salary packaging options.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Our commitment to wellbeing through our Thriving@Flinders initiative

• Wide range of professional development activities and services, including exclusive staff study offers.

• We embrace diversity and promote equity and inclusion for all students and staff, as shown through our three SAGE Cygnet Awards.

• Vibrant campus life and amenities including on campus health care services, gym and childcare centre (Bedford Park, South Australia).

Our Commitment to Reconciliation and Indigenous Employment

Flinders University is proud to be an organisation that is committed to our Reconciliation Action Plan and Indigenous Workforce Strategy. Our vision is to be a preferred employer for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.  We are committed to progressing Indigenous advancement in education, research, employment, and wellbeing, and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for all Flinders vacancies.

• Please see here for our Reconciliation Action Plan 

• Please see here for our Indigenous Workforce Strategy 

Prescribed Conditions for Employment

• A current Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check which is satisfactory to the University will be required by Flinders University before the successful applicant can commence in this position. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify a candidate from consideration. Each case will be assessed on its individual merits and relevance to the inherent requirements of the role.

How to Apply and Information

• You are required to submit a CV, along with a Suitability Statement as a separate document.  This should be no more than 3 pages, and address the Key Position Capabilities of the position description

• For more information regarding this position, please contact Michelle Berrigan

Please note, late applications and applications sent via agencies will not be accepted.

At Flinders we embrace and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, ethnicities, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities.

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