Position Details

Full time Position (36.75 hours per week) | Fixed Term for 5 years Senior Manager Salary + 17% superannuation | Salary packaging options + extra benefits at negotiation stage

Location:
Bedford Park / Kaurna Country View Candidate Brochure View Position Description College of Medicine and Public Health (CMPH) | Who We Proudly Are Since 1966, Flinders University has been at the forefront of innovation in Australian higher education, shaping the future through bold ideas, pioneering research, and transformative learning experiences. With campuses across South Australia and the Northern Territory, Flinders is committed to changing lives through education, research and community impact. At the College of Medicine and Public Health, we deliver clinical, population and lab-based research, integrated teaching programs and high-quality clinical services. Our footprint reaches from our world class teaching hospital at the Flinders Medical Centre in South Australia to multiple rural clinical locations across South Australia to Darwin in the Northern Territory. Our research and teaching equip the next generation of leaders and innovators with the skill, commitment, and vision to protect vulnerable communities and truly advance health outcomes. It is at the heart of everything we do.

Who We Proudly Are

Since 1966, Flinders University has been at the forefront of innovation in Australian higher education, shaping the future through bold ideas, pioneering research, and transformative learning experiences. With campuses across South Australia and the Northern Territory, Flinders is committed to changing lives through education, research and community impact.

About this Exclusive Opportunity





Flinders University warmly invites applications for an outstanding academic leader to serve as Dean (People and Resources). This is a terrific opportunity to shape the workforce, capability and resource strategy of a complex and high performing College during a significant period of strategic transformation and growth. As a key member of the College Executive Team and trusted advisor to the Vice-President and Executive Dean, the Dean (People and Resources) provides strategic leadership across academic workforce planning, organisational capability, performance, and resource management. The role is critical to ensuring the College has the people, structures and resources required to achieve its ambitions in research excellence, educational quality and community impact.

Key Responsibilities

Leading the development and implementation of workforce strategies aligned to University priorities, driving academic staffing and succession planning, overseeing workload and resource allocation frameworks, and fostering an environment where academic excellence, innovation and collaboration can thrive.

The Dean (People and Resources) will play a pivotal role in staff attraction, retention and development, while providing expert leadership and advice on complex people-related matters, organisational effectiveness and performance outcomes.





This position makes a significant contribution to the University’s strategic plan to changing 10 million lives, Every One Matters, by 2035 through directly correlating to the Value of ‘Excellence’.

This role ensures the College attracts, develops and supports outstanding academic talent while driving high performance across its people and operations, enabling outstanding educational and research outcomes.

Who you Are and What You Will Bring

The successful candidate will possess a PhD or equivalent qualification and an outstanding record of academic achievement consistent with the expectations of a leading university. You will bring substantial senior leadership experience within complex organisational environments and demonstrated success in strategic workforce planning, organisational development and leading change. You will have a proven ability to translate strategy into operational outcomes, analyse and interpret complex data to inform decision-making, and build strong relationships across diverse stakeholder groups.

Exceptional communication, negotiation and influencing skills are essential, together with a team-oriented leadership style and a demonstrated commitment to fostering inclusive, high-performing cultures.

Highly regarded candidates will also bring experience in leading at scale, developing innovative workforce solutions, and contributing strategically at executive level within a research-intensive, care and education-focused environment.

Life at Flinders | Why Join Us

They say know your place. We say you’ve found it right here. Flinders University was founded on the belief that

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