About Matrix Education

Matrix Education is Australia's leading and fastest-growing tuition college for ambitious students from Year 3 to Year 12. For over 25 years, we've helped tens of thousands of students achieve their academic goals through remarkable teaching, fanatical customer support, and exceptional outcomes.

We're now in the middle of something exciting. Matrix is expanding nationally, growing our online platform Matrix+, and re-thinking what new techniques and technologies can unlock within our already world-class learning programs. The Academic team you will be joining is the heart and soul of Matrix. You will be in the engine room, delivering exceptional instruction at scale to some of Australia’s brightest and most ambitious students.

Position Overview

As Matrix continues to grow, we need faculty leaders who can grow with us, holding to the high standards of academic performance and rigour that is our trademark. The Science Faculty Lead owns the health, performance and reputation of Science at Matrix, and builds a team that can deliver that consistently at scale.

We're looking for a leader who builds capable people and sets a clear bar, rather than someone who tries to solve every problem themselves. Someone who earns credibility by teaching, observing, coaching and being visible on campus, not just managing from a distance.

You'll own course health, academic performance and deliver exceptional student outcomes for Science across all relevant Matrix campuses. You’ll achieve scale by working through Science Team Leads who will report to you as your faculty grows to need them. You'll set curriculum standards in partnership with our dedicated Curriculum Development team, own strategic academic direction, and represent the faculty to Marketing, Customer Experience and the Head of Academic.

You lead a full academic team from day one, made up of Team Leads (depending on size of faculty), Matrix class Teachers, and Senior Tutors. You'll keep teaching too, at least three hours a week, to stay connected to the classroom and credible with the people you're leading.

The roster includes some weekends, because that's when much of our teaching occurs. You will interact a lot with teachers,



students and occasionally parents for academic escalations.

You don't need to write curriculum yourself; our Curriculum Development team handles production. What you need is the academic authority to set direction, sign-off on what's produced, and know when something doesn’t meet the Matrix quality bar or fit the needs of our ambitious students.

Key responsibilities & outcomes

1. Teaching quality and team capability

- Set transparent pedagogical standards across all campuses for consistent, high-quality delivery
- Build a scalable coaching model that develops your senior teachers and Team Lead(s) and expands their leadership capacity
- Partner with People and Culture on talent acquisition and pipeline strategy for casual teachers and tutors and maintain strong alumni engagement
- Maintain a culture that keeps casual teacher performance, satisfaction and retention high
- Teach at least three hours a week to stay connected to the student experience

2. Student outcomes and experience

- Achieve strong learning gains and formal exam performance (HSC) across all campuses
- Monitor Course Health analytics to catch disengaged cohorts early and deploy support
- Analyse SEQ (Student Experience Questionnaire) trends and direct immediate coaching adjustments where needed
- Manage complex academic escalations in a way that keeps parents' trust and students engaged

3. Academic program quality

- Set the strategic vision for the subject, ensuring full alignment with NESA requirements
- Sign-off on major curriculum architecture, assessment models and exam materials
- Give Curriculum Development team clear, helpful feedback that improves publishing output
- Design assignments and mock exams that anticipate real exam trends

4. Faculty strategy and growth

- Turn Course Health data into strategic initiatives that keep the faculty growing,



with a particular focus on strong student retention term-to-term
- Establish and maintain Matrix’ academic authority in your faculty by partnering with Marketing and Customer Experience on academic messaging and workshops that support enrollment targets
- Track national and state syllabus changes so Matrix stays ahead in the subject

What we're looking for

- Deep subject-matter expertise ideally with a strong HSC or VCE teaching track record and credibility among educators
- Tertiary qualification in Education, or a discipline related to your faculty
- Demonstrated experience developing teams, ideally teams of educators, including handling tough performance conversations
- Comfortable interpreting student analytics, retention trends and SEQ data to make real decisions

Scalable leadership and academic authority This role only works if you can lead through others, not around them. We're looking for someone who sets a standard, stepping in when it genuinely matters.

- A track record of building capability in others rather than doing the work yourself
- Confidence handling difficult conversations, whether that's a struggling teacher or an anxious parent
- Comfort making final calls on curriculum and assessment without needing to write it yourself
- Genuine energy for coaching others

Skills and attributes

- Passion for education and the impact it has on young people
- Sets standards and builds capable teams rather than solving every problem personally
- Earns respect through visible teaching and observation, not just formal authority
- Understands how academic quality drives retention, reputation and growth
- High ownership and sound judgement under ambiguity

Success measures

- Sustained upward trend in faculty-wide SEQ, retention and NPS scores
- Measurable acceleration in coached teachers' performance and satisfaction
- On-time strategic sign-off on major curriculum rollouts with no alignment errors
- Strong, durable student outcomes supporting subject-wide growth targets
- Scalable coaching model demonstrably reducing your own need to intervene directly, including new teacher onboarding and training
- Faculty reputation strong enough to support national expansion of the subject

📌 Science Faculty Lead (Sydney)
🏢 Matrix Education
📍 Sydney