Training level or qualifications:

Duties at or above this level typically require a skill level which assumes and requires knowledge or training equivalent to:

• proven expertise in the management of significant human and material resources; in addition to, in some areas,
• postgraduate qualifications and extensive relevant experience.

Occupational equivalent:

Senior program, research or administrative manager.

Level of supervision:

Broad direction, operating with a high overall degree of autonomy.  Will have substantial management responsibility for diverse activities and/or staff (including administrative, technical and/or professional staff).

Task level:

Complex, significant and high level creative planning, program and managerial functions with clear accountability for program performance.  Comprehensive knowledge of related programs.  Generate and use a high level of theoretical and applied knowledge.

Organisational knowledge:

Bring a multi-perspective understanding to the development, carriage, marketing and implementation of new policies; devise new ways of adapting the organisation's strategies to new, including externally generated, demands.

Be fully responsible for the achievement of significant organisational objectives and programs.

Judgement, independence and problem solving:

Be fully responsible for the achievement of significant organisational objectives and programs.

Typical activities:

Manage a large functional unit with a diverse or complex set of functions and significant resources.

Manage a more complex function or unit where significant innovation, initiative and/or judgement are required.

Provide senior administrative support to the most complex schools and faculties in large institutions, involving complex course structures, significant staff and financial resources, outside activities and extensive devolution of administrative, policy and financial management responsibilities to this position.