This is a casual position.
Please include a brief cover letter that demonstrates your understanding of and capacity to undertake the role, including your ability to meet the selection criteria.
Closing Date: 5:00pm, Sunday 3 May 2026
Only applicants who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted.
Considerations
* You are required to have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this role. This role is not suited to a working holiday visa holder.
Further Information
For further information about this role, please contact Amanda McDonald Crowley at amanda.mcdonaldcrowley@nida.edu.au
As part of NIDA's commitment to equity and inclusion, we strongly encourage applications from people who identify with historically excluded communities such as First Nations, culturally and linguistically diverse, LGBTQI+ and people with disability. All applications will be considered without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital or disability status.
Role Overview
This casual role delivers and shapes the Cultural Policy & Practice subject within the Master of Arts (Cultural Leadership), ensuring the curriculum reflects current cultural policy debates and leadership practices. Working with the Course Leader and industry experts, the role brings senior-level, applied policy expertise informed by active engagement across the arts and cultural sector.
About Us
The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is Australia's premier training ground for future leaders and practitioners in the dramatic arts. Located at Kensington in Sydney, it is a Centre of excellence in education and training. NIDA is unique in the world for its practice-based and industry-relevant training in the range that it offers which includes Acting, Design, Costume, Properties and Objects, Technical Theatre and Stage Management, Scenic Construction, Writing for Performance, Directing and Cultural Leadership.
About the Lecturer, Cultural Policy & Practice, Cultural Leadership
This casual role develops and delivers practice-led cultural policy curriculum in collaboration with the Course Leader, embedding First Nations First principles, inclusion, diversity, sustainability, and effective online teaching. It assesses students in line with institutional requirements, maintains professional currency through active cultural policy practice, contributes sector-focused thought leadership, and complies with all WHS obligations.
About You
The role requires relevant qualifications or equivalent professional experience, with senior-level expertise and a recognised reputation in cultural policy or arts leadership. Essential capabilities include strong sector networks, experience in tertiary or professional education, effective online teaching skills, and proficiency with contemporary systems and technologies. A demonstrated commitment to First Nations leadership, inclusion, diversity, collaboration, and inclusive practice is essential, with desirable experience in practice-led research and/or lived or deep understanding of marginalised experiences.
Please download the full position description here for more information about this casual role.
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