Director, enablement (hobart)

Position Details

Title: Director Enablement

Work type: Full time

Location: Statewide (all locations in Tasmania)

Categories: Management

About the Opportunity

The Director Enablement will act as a strategic and operational partner to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Student Services and Operations, ensuring strong performance, clear direction, and high-impact decision-making across the division. In this role, you will maintain a real-time view of priorities, risks, and opportunities, equipping leaders with the insights needed to lead with confidence. You will translate strategy into action, aligning people, resources, and initiatives to deliver measurable outcomes. Leading a specialist enablement team, you will drive continuous improvement, coordinated program delivery, and people-centred transformation across the University. Operating at the centre of the division, you will influence at pace, strengthen capability, and foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and sustained performance. You will shape how Student Services and Operations deliver impact across the institution.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain oversight of priorities, risks, and opportunities to support informed decision-making.
• Enable delivery of key programs and effective ways of working.
• Lead initiatives that improve effectiveness and delivery capability.
• Translate strategy into action, aligning people, resources, and initiatives to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Lead a specialist enablement team, drive continuous improvement, coordinated program delivery, and people-centred transformation.
• Operate at the centre of the division, influence at pace, strengthen capability, and foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and sustained performance.

Qualifications and Experience

• Demonstrated experience operating as a trusted adviser or chief of staff to a senior executive in a large, complex organisation, with the ability to manage sensitive information and exercise sound judgement.
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously, managing competing priorities and progressing complex work with minimal direction while maintaining alignment to broader organisational goals.
• Strong financial acumen, including experience contributing to divisional budget planning, workforce planning, and resource management.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear executive briefings, reports, and presentations for senior governance audiences.
• Experience building credibility and collaborative relationships across a matrixed organisation, influencing without direct authority across diverse teams and senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain performance frameworks, governance structures, and reporting mechanisms that drive accountability and continuous improvement.
• Proven ability to lead and deliver continuous improvement, service design, or program enablement functions, with experience applying structured methodologies such as Lean, human-centred design, and agile in a professional services context.
• Experience in higher education or a similarly complex public sector environment, with an understanding of the governance, regulatory, and cultural context in which universities operate (desirable).

Qualifications and Licenses

Completion of a degree level qualification and/or an equivalent combination of skills, training and experience in executive support in a large complex organisation preferably in higher education.

Benefits

• 26 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers.
• 17% Superannuation contribution.
• Health and fitness membership options.
• Accommodation and car hire discounts.
• Health insurance and banking.
• Novated leasing.

How to Apply

If this role is of interest, we look forward to hearing from you.

Please provide your up-to-date resume and:

• A one-page cover letter outlining your motivation for the role and the University of Tasmania.
• A separate addressal of the selection criteria outlining how your skills and experience align with the role-specific skills, knowledge and experience in the Position Description.

To be eligible for this position, you must have Australian citizenship, permanent residence or a current valid visa that allows you to fulfill the requirements of this role.

Applications close: 21 June 2026 (Tasmania Standard Time).