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.

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, leading our amazing teachers and tutors to deliver 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, sign off on our academic resources, 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 role necessarily includes some weekend work, because that's when much of our teaching occurs. You will interact a lot with teachers, students and occasionally parents for academic escalations. Ultimately this is an outcome-driven leadership role and what is required of you will be up to you to decide in consultation with your manager and may vary over time based on where your faculty is at. You don't need to write curriculum yourself (unless you have a desire and aptitude to); 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

Teaching quality and team capability

Set clear 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 solid 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

Student outcomes and experience

Achieve strong learning gains and formal exam performance (HSC/VCE, OC, Selective) 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

Academic program quality

Set the strategic vision for the subject, ensuring full alignment with NESA/VCAA requirements

Sign-off on major curriculum architecture, assessment models and exam materials

Give Curriculum Development team clear, useful feedback that improves publishing output

Design assignments and mock exams that anticipate real exam trends

Faculty strategy and growth

Plan and execute structural changes to our academic products as needed to stay best-in-class. This could include in-term

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