Training level or qualifications:

Level 8 duties typically require  a skill level which assumes and requires knowledge or training equivalent to:

• postgraduate qualifications or progress towards postgraduate qualifications and extensive relevant experience, or
• extensive experience and management expertise, or
• an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.

Occupational equivalent:

Manager (including administrative, research, professional or scientific); senior school or faculty administrator; researcher.

Level of supervision:

Broad direction, working with a degree of autonomy.  May have management responsibility for a functional area and/or manage other staff including administrative, technical and/or professional staff.

Task level:

Work at this level is likely to require the development of new ways of using a specific body of knowledge which applies to work assignments, or may involve the integration of other specific bodies of knowledge.

Organisational knowledge:

The staff member would be expected to make policy recommendations to others and to implement programs involving major change which may impact on other areas of the institution's operations.

Judgement, independence and problem solving:

Responsible for program development and implementation. Provide strategic support and advice (e.g. to schools or faculties) requiring integration of a range of university policies and external requirements, and an ability to achieve objectives operating within complex organisation structures.

Typical activities:

Assist in the management of a large functional unit with a diverse or complex set of functions and significant resources.

Manage a function or development and implementation of a policy requiring a high degree of knowledge and sensitivity.

Manage a small or specialised unit where significant innovation, initiative and/or judgement are required.

Provide senior administrative support to schools and faculties of medium complexity, taking into account the size, budget, course structure, external activities and management practices within the faculty or equivalent unit.