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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

The Director, Competitive Intelligence and Analytics is a key leadership role within the Student and University Planning Office and is charged with overall leadership and management of all services related to the successful delivery of competitive intelligence and insights. The Director will drive the strategic direction of their area, with a focus on service excellence, creative problem solving, service innovation and operational efficiency so to achieve a superior, differentiated and best in class experience. This will include leadership and management of staff and resources as well as influencing and engaging with other functions across the University who contribute to data governance, operation and innovation.Finally, as part of the Student and University Planning leadership team, the Director will support the Chief Student and University Planning Officer in implementing a strategic plan that addresses: * Data Governance: Advising on, monitoring, and governing critical student and curriculum databases; * Data Operations: Enabling data usability, availability, and efficiency; * Big Data Innovation: Empowering enterprise transformation, innovation, cost reduction, and revenue generation; * and Competitive Intelligence: Insights and analytics on students, staff, operations, and markets.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

This position provides high-level leadership and management expertise in the provision and ongoing development of high quality information to the University’s decision-makers. The position manages a unit of specialised staff that provides reports, analysis, commentary and recommendations to the University’s executives and managers to support decision-making processes. The position also provides strategic advice to the University’s senior executive and managers based on student load and revenue forecasts through a series of bespoke analysis tools built by Jason.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

The Director, Competitive Intelligence and Analytics is a key leadership role within the Student and University Planning Office and is charged with overall leadership and management of all services related to the successful delivery of competitive intelligence and insights. The Director will drive the strategic direction of their area, with a focus on service excellence, creative problem solving, service innovation and operational efficiency so to achieve a superior, differentiated and best in class experience. This will include leadership and management of staff and resources as well as influencing and engaging with other functions across the University who contribute to data governance, operation and innovation.Finally, as part of the Student and University Planning leadership team, the Director will support the Chief Student and University Planning Officer in implementing a strategic plan that addresses: * Data Governance: Advising on, monitoring, and governing critical student and curriculum databases; * Data Operations: Enabling data usability, availability, and efficiency; * Big Data Innovation: Empowering enterprise transformation, innovation, cost reduction, and revenue generation; * and Competitive Intelligence: Insights and analytics on students, staff, operations, and markets.

Penrith, New South Wales

This role leads a team responsible for the design, configuration and administration of the Library’s client-facing engagement initiatives, its discovery interfaces and associated projects that support the University’s academic program and research strengths. This team is responsible for remaining at the forefront of new learning and teaching initiatives and directions within the Library, and supports digital service transformation and reinvention via ongoing co-creation with the University community to ensure optimal user experiences. This team regularly reviews the Library's engagement strategy to ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness across all discovery interfaces and to ensure they remain contemporary and responsive to student needs. Through the Associate Librarian Projects and Development, this role partners on key aspects of learning enhancement and innovation, including the integration of new digital learning and academic resources and collaborating in leading-edge initiatives that maximise access to licensed and purchased materials and open access initiatives.

Sydney, Australia

Acting in this role for May to June 2019, the primary role of the Associate Librarian, Resources & Digital Services is to provide strategic leadership in the planning, development, management and delivery of quality resources and associated services to support the University’s teaching and research programs. This leadership role included responsibility for the Library’s digital infrastructure, Information Resources, Discovery Services, Research Support, Policy Development and the Whitlam Prime Ministerial Collection.

Sydney, Australia

Acting in this role for October 2018, the primary role of the Associate Librarian, Resources & Digital Services is to provide strategic leadership in the planning, development, management and delivery of quality resources and associated services to support the University’s teaching and research programs. This leadership role included responsibility for the Library’s digital infrastructure, Information Resources, Discovery Services, Research Support, Policy Development and the Whitlam Prime Ministerial Collection.

School Of Humanities & Communication Arts

This key position provided expert support for the Digital Humanities Research Group in achieving its strategic objectives, playing a key role in initiating, facilitating, engaging in and coordinating Digital Humanities research, training and outreach activities.In this position I supported a large interdisciplinary group through providing vital management, research and technical expertise as well as enabling, developing and coordinating Digital Humanities projects. The role had primary responsibility for designing and maintaining the groups’s digital infrastructure and I regularly contributed direct research, methodological and technical support to individual research endeavours. I also played a pivotal role as the group's wider activities interfacing with the university community and its national and international partners. As the Research Group expanded, I assumed higher level oversight that included coordinating professional development and providing training activities in Digital Humanities. This included the supervision of research assistants, working with postdoctoral candidates and international interns, giving lectures and workshops, and the design, development, submission and support of grant proposals to external funding agencies.

Canberra, Australia

As Technical Officer for the ARC Linkage project 'Deepening Histories of Place: Exploring Indigenous Landscapes of National and International Significance', I played a pivotal developer and advisory role for research partners in designing and implementing the project’s digital history delivery strategies. Backed by a consortium of Industry partners, this project's goal was to render some of the deeper layers of Australia’s history more accessible to the public. Stakeholders included the National Film and Sound Archive, the Northern Territory Government, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, National Parks, the Office of Environment and Heritage, and the University of Sydney. As a member of this unique interdisciplinary and industry team, I worked with leading historians in Australian Indigenous History and national collecting institutions in order to produce richer interpretations of internationally significant Australian landscapes, and to develop innovative models for multi-vocal Indigenous and landscape-focused histories.'Deepening Histories of Place' remains one of the largest digital cultural project for Aboriginal knowledge management ever attempted in Australia that deals with the most complex and ethically sensitive issues facing research around access control and cultural heritage. This project broke new ground in the legal area of Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property (ICIP) rights management through the use of digital methods. The Attorney-General of Australia launched five outcomes resulting from this work in April 2013: a project home website which continues to host a set of Ethical Protocols and clearance forms for fostering and maintaining ethical research relationships with Indigenous people and communities; a digital history research environment for cultural knowledge management; and three scholarly research publications in digital form.

Sydney, Australia

Working as a publisher for select projects, I provided hands-on skills in and knowledge of all aspects of print and digital publishing from manuscript procurement and editing, to design to typesetting, for several highly-successful publications. This work built on my previous experience as a production editor for The University of Queensland where from 1996 to 2001 I managed over 400 authors across several academic series including 'The Journal of Australian Studies', 'Australian Cultural History', 'University of Queensland Press Symposia' and 'University of Queensland Press Australian Studies'. Other publication activity includes contributing to the development of two monographs with a Western Australian history focus ('A History of Dentistry in Western Australia' and 'Odysseus and the Golden West', both by Dr. John Yiannakis in 2009), designing and typesetting 'Never Stand Still: Stories of Life, Land and Politics in the Kimberley' by John Darraga Watson and Dr Malcolm Allbrook (a book described by Penguin Australia and Fremantle Press as a “beautifully presented written and visual memoir of life on the land in the Kimberley”), and producing several bestseller titles under the Avago Books imprint.

Perth, Australia

In this position, I was responsible for administering the Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) submission at Murdoch University. My role was to develop original online tools and services which linked major citation and peer review research assets, visualised research trends, calculated relative citation impact, and analysed the performance and coverage of scholarly outcomes with regards to national and international benchmarks for individual fields of research (FoRs). The tools I created allowed effective consultation between the parties involved in the submission, the discovery of new assessable FoRs, and enabled effective error checking. These tools integrated staff data from the university's internal HR system, publication and grant data from its IRMA suite (the Integrated Research Management Application), Discipline Matrix data and ERA rules from the ARC, up-to-date citation data from SciVerse Scopus (a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles) including ten years of ranking data for 22,000 journals, library holding data from WorldCat (a union catalogue that itemises the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories), and supplementary data from Google Scholar (a web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature).Applied across all of the university’s research activities, these tools were used by research leaders, deans and the executive leadership to more effectively evaluate and assign patents, grants, publications, explanatory statements and non-traditional research outputs within the context of ERA reporting requirements. As a result of this work the university had only a tiny number of submission errors and was one of the first institutions to complete its submission process. Overall, Murdoch University’s assessed (4 digit) units of evaluation rated ‘at world standard’ or above rose from 65% in 2010 to 85% in 2012.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Communication And Media Studies

Certificate In Engaging Learners Online, Education

Master Of Arts (Ma), History

Postgraduate Diploma (Pgdip), History

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Communication And Media Studies

Graduate Diploma In Information Studies, Library And Information Science