- Lead Domestic Undergraduate Admissions at UQ

- Combine operational leadership, strategic influence and meaningful impact in a role that helps create pathways to higher education

- Permanent, Full-time, with Base salary in the range of $120,317- $134,892.52 + 17% super (HEW Level 8)

- Based at our vibrant St Lucia Campus.

About This Opportunity

As Manager, Domestic Undergraduate Admissions, you'll lead a critical function that helps shape how students access UQ.

Overseeing domestic undergraduate admissions, you'll combine operational leadership with strategic influence, ensuring admissions services are efficient, consistent and applicant focused. You'll guide an experienced team, navigate dynamic admissions matters and use data and insights to strengthen decision-making, service delivery and governance.

This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact at scale, collaborating across UQ to strengthen admissions services and help create pathways to higher education for students from diverse backgrounds.

Key responsibilities will include:

- Lead the delivery of domestic undergraduate admissions, including diverse cases and specialised entry pathways.

- Plan and oversee annual admissions cycles, ensuring operational readiness, effective workload management and high-quality service delivery.

- Use data and insights to strengthen admissions performance, reporting, quality assurance and decision-making.

- Provide authoritative admissions and policy advice to senior leaders, faculties, schools and University governance groups.

- Drive continuous improvement across admissions services, systems, controls and end-to-end processes.

- Lead and develop a high-performing admissions team, fostering a collaborative, inclusive and improvement-focused culture.

About You

You'll be a leader from admissions,



student administration or a similarly complex regulatory environment, with the judgement and expertise to lead a specialised, high-volume function.

You'll be comfortable balancing operational delivery with longer-term improvement, bringing together people, policy and data to make sound decisions and provide trusted advice.

You will also demonstrate:

- Postgraduate qualifications, progress towards postgraduate qualifications with extensive relevant experience, extensive management expertise, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

- Substantial experience in admissions, including selective, quota-managed or professionally regulated programs, or a comparable regulatory environment.

- Strong experience leading operational programs, service improvement and organisational change.

- The ability to translate policy, data and operational considerations into clear advice and decisions.

- Strong people and resource leadership, particularly while managing competing priorities and peak workloads.

- Highly developed communication, consultation, negotiation and stakeholder management skills.

- A proactive and collaborative approach, with sound judgement, integrity and a commitment to fairness and confidentiality

About UQ

As part of the UQ community, you'll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world, working together to create a better world.



Join a community where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued and a range of benefits and rewards are available.

Enjoy up to 26 weeks paid parental and primary care leave, 17% super, 17.5% leave loading, flexible and hybrid working options, health and wellbeing programs, a heavily discounted Study for Staff program, on‑campus childcare, affordable parking, and salary packaging.

Interested?

For more information about this prospect, please contact Mark Ewen on ******@uq.edu.au with application inquiries, or please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team at ******@uq.edu.au, stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line.

When you apply, please ensure you upload a resume and cover letter summarising how your background aligns to the 'About You' section. Please note that applications received via email will not be accepted.

Other Information

Pre-employment checks may include: verification of the right to work in Australia, qualifications and criminal history checks. This may also include checks relating to gender-based violence matters or other integrity and conduct requirements.

You must maintain unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Employer sponsored work rights are not available for this appointment.

We're dedicated to equity, diversity, and inclusion. We recognise that career pathways and opportunities differ and encourage applications from candidates who may not meet every criteria but can demonstrate their potential relative to opportunity. We're also happy to support any accessibility needs throughout the recruitment process. Just let us know how we can help by emailing ******@uq.edu.au or calling +61 7 3365 2623.

Applications close 15th November at 11.00pm AEST (R-69336).

📌 Manager, Domestic Undergraduate Admissions (Saint Lucia)
🏢 The University of Queensland
📍 Saint Lucia