The Senior Manager Centre Of Excellence Digital at TAFE NSW will lead educational excellence, industry engagement and innovation through the Institute of Applied Technology Digital. The work connects digital skills education with emerging technologies, employer needs, applied research and the future NSW workforce. View the official job ad .

This is a permanent full-time role with location negotiable across NSW, subject to campus availability, and the Centre of Excellence Digital team is based at Meadowbank. The package is $230,530, including a base salary of $203,592. Applications close Sunday 6 September 2026 at 11:55pm AEST.

Role title

Organisation

Organisation TAFE NSW

Job location

Job location Location negotiable across NSW, subject to campus availability; team based at Meadowbank

Job reference number

Job reference number

Work type

Work type Permanent full-time

Total salary package

Total salary package $230,530, including base salary of $203,592

- Current resume.
- Copies of qualifications, where applicable, uploaded as one PDF file.
- Response to 1 targeted question in the online application, maximum 300 words.
- Degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent skills, knowledge and experience.
- Willingness and ability to travel to Centre of Excellence campuses as required.
- Valid NSW Working with Children Check before commencing.
- Australian National Criminal Record Check for the preferred applicant.
- Australian citizenship, Australian permanent residency, or Recent Zealand citizenship with a current New Zealand passport.

NSW Government Candidate Requirements

The panel needs evidence that you can lead digital education in a setting shaped by rapid changes in AI,



cybersecurity, data and automation. The following evidence areas reflect the leadership, education and partnership work described for the role rather than a published focus-capability list.

Candidate Requirements For Senior Manager Centre Of Excellence Digital At TAFE NSW

Requirement or capability from role

How to demonstrate it

Educational leadership in VET or higher education Show how you strengthened teaching, learning or assessment practice and connected it to measurable learner or workforce outcomes.

Digital-industry expertise Establish substantial experience in the digital sector and explain how you keep programs relevant as technologies and industry needs change.

Multidisciplinary team leadership and strategic change Use an example where you set a clear direction, led people with different expertise and implemented change in a complex education or industry environment.

Strategic partnerships Describe how you built and used relationships across industry, government, universities or training providers to achieve an outcome that one organisation could not deliver alone.

Digital capability and future-workforce reform Explain how you interpreted trends such as AI, automation or cybersecurity and turned them into a practical capability, curriculum or workforce response.





Data and insights for learner and organisational outcomes Show how evidence helped you identify a need, choose an approach, monitor performance and improve the result for learners or employers.

The written application requires one targeted-question response in the online form. The maximum is 300 words. The table below shows how to use that limit to present one complete leadership example.

Response To The Targeted Question

What a strong response would include

Australia’s workforce is rapidly evolving through AI, cybersecurity, data and emerging technologies. Describe an initiative you led to build digital capability through education. How did you identify the need, influence stakeholders, and deliver outcomes for learners, employers or the broader sector? Open with the initiative, audience and scale. Explain the evidence that revealed the capability need, the stakeholders you had to influence, the decisions and actions you personally led, and the education or workforce solution delivered. Finish with specific results for learners, employers or the wider sector.

What The Panel Will Want To See In Your Examples

- A clear digital‑capability need supported by evidence or industry insight.
- Personal leadership of the initiative rather than a general team description.
- Influence across education, industry, government or community partners.
- A practical education or training response to emerging technology.
- Specific outcomes for learners, employers or the broader sector.
- Concise writing that answers every part of the question within 300 words.

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