The Macquarie Incubator:• Provides transformative entrepreneur training programs, with academic credit and experiential learning to enable students to create and implement solutions to societal and commercial problems• Helps startups and entrepreneurs to build innovative solutions for businesses, organizations and the community• Provides a globally recognised, impactful, entrepreneur program• Provides training and channels to support research teams to effectively build and manage relationships with commercialise and attain impact for society

Academic Senate is the principal academic body in the University and has certain powers delegated to it by Macquarie University Council.Key responsibilities included:* Supporting the Chair of Academic Senate to oversee the academic standards and quality of academic activities, including in areas of teaching, learning and research. This involves project managing the activities of several sub-committees of Academic Senate, and the identification and assessment of risk.* Managing and delivering on important and high profile projects for which the Academic Senate hasresponsibility, including project timelines, consultation, resources and budget.* Drafting policy, procedure and guidelines, consulting with the University community, and overseeingimplementation of policy.* Advising colleagues on the University’s obligations in regards to Delegations of Authority and legislative requirements including the Australian Qualifications Framework, and Higher Education Standards Framework.* Drafting discussion papers for consideration by the University Executive and University Council in pursuit of shared goals.* Communicating outcomes and discussions of the Academic Senate

Key responsibilities include:* Preparing ministerials, speeches and briefings for the Minister of Education, General Manager of the OLT, governance committees and university executives.* Researching higher education trends/policy and drafting discussion papers on national strategic priority areas in relation to learning and teaching;* Organising and co-ordinating workshops and national symposiums* Reviewing and evaluating OLT programs and funding and presenting findings to governance committees;* Preparing senate estimate briefs and parliamentary reports;* Administering the OLT Australian Awards for University Teaching Program and Grants;* Building partnerships with stakeholders from the higher education sector, including Vice-Chancellors and University Executives; and* Liaising with the legal team in regards to funding agreements, contracts, privacy statements and proposed changes to policy and guidelines.

Key responsibilities included:* Providing in-house legal advice to clients predominately on obligations in relation to the Higher Education Support Act 2003, Educational Services for Overseas Students Act 2000, Privacy Act 1988. Ensuring all applicable policies and procedures are complied with, risks are identified and appropriately managed.* Preparing court documents for hearings at Administrative Appeals Tribunal and High Court of Australia, includingfor the high profile National Schools Chaplaincy High Court challenge.* Reviewing commercial, corporate, employment, international, contract variations, guideline amendments, property and intellectual property law issues. Requesting advice from Australian Government Solicitor and panel firms as appropriate.* Drafting services contracts, funding agreements, deeds of variation, and procurement documents.* Attending settlement teleconferences with registrars and applicants.* Managing the department’s relationship with, and responses to, the Commonwealth Ombudsman and Overseas Student Ombudsman. Liaising with clients to address systemic issues in order to assist prevent similar complaints being made.* Presenting workshops and training modules to staff, in particular in relation to Freedom of Information legislation/applications and privacy.