Training level or qualifications:

Level 9 duties typically require a skill level which assumes and requires knowledge or training equivalent to:

• postgraduate qualifications and extensive relevant experience, or
• extensive management experience and proven 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; senior researcher.

Level of supervision:

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

Task level:

Demonstrated capacity to conceptualise, develop and review major professional, management or administrative policies at the corporate level.  Significant high level creative, planning and management functions.  Responsibility for significant resources.

Organisational knowledge:

Conceptualise, develop and review major policies, objectives and strategies involving high level liaison with internal and external client areas. Responsible for programs involving major change which may impact on other areas of the institution's operations.

Judgement, independence and problem solving:

Responsible for significant program development and implementation. Provide strategic support and advice (e.g. to schools or faculties or at the corporate level) requiring integration of a range of internal and external policies and demands, and an ability to achieve broad objectives while operating within complex organisational 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 and the integration of internal and external requirements.

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

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