The Opportunities

The Workstream Leads play a key role providing leadership and subject matter expertise to support the University’s compliance with the Universities Accord (National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence) Act 2025.

Working collaboratively with the Program Manager, SME Lead, and a range of internal stakeholders, you’ll lead the design and implementation of initiatives that strengthen UNSW’s prevention of and response to gender-based violence. Each Workstream Lead has 1–2 direct reports and is responsible for coordinating delivery within your workstream, ensuring alignment with program goals, reporting requirements, and organisational values.

You will also support impact evaluation of education and service delivery, with scope to report findings to sector audiences and in publication.

Workstream Lead (Education and Capability)                                                                                     Job 536502

Focus on designing, developing, and implementing education and capability initiatives that prevent gender-based violence and build staff and student capacity to respond effectively to disclosures. You’ll lead the creation of training programs and educational content for staff, student leaders, and specific student cohorts (e.g., international students and residents). You’ll also coordinate bystander programs, external provider training, ensuring a consistent, trauma-informed, and person-centred approach to capability building across UNSW.

Workstream Lead (Process Development)                                                                                         Job 536481

Focused on leading the planning, analysis, and optimisation of service processes related to UNSW’s gender-based violence response, you’ll be responsible for documenting, analysing, and improving current service workflows, with particular attention to risk management, safety planning, and compliance. The position plays a critical role in developing consistent frameworks for risk assessment and trauma-informed practice, as well as improving data capture, documentation systems, and process effectiveness across the university’s GBV response services.

Who You Are

You have a strong track record designing, implementing and evaluating initiatives that deliver measurable outcomes. With a background in complex or multidisciplinary environments, you apply evidence-based approaches to support systemic improvement and cultural change, and can demonstrate the following skills and experience:

Workstream Lead – Co-curricular Education and Capability                                                              Job 536502

• A relevant qualification in social change, education, organisational behaviour change, or public health, with demonstrated experience in designing and delivering impactful learning and capability-building programs
• Leadership in the design, delivery and evaluation of training programs that embed evidence-based and trauma-informed practice.
• Experience facilitating co-design processes and collaborating with students, staff and external partners to deliver shared outcomes.
• Ability to translate research and theory into practice, achieving measurable improvements in learning outcomes.
• Proficiency in learning technologies and platforms, including LMS, virtual learning tools and content creation software.

Workstream Lead – Process Development                                                                                         Job 536481

• Relevant qualification and/or extensive experience in service design and delivery—such as clinical governance or service quality improvement—ideally within psychosocial health, domestic and family violence service or other relevant social support context
• Expertise in designing and embedding trauma-informed, person-centred service processes.
• Strong capability in workflow mapping, gap analysis, documentation, data capture and process improvement.
• Proven experience managing change, assessing risk and engaging stakeholders to deliver sustainable outcomes.
• Demonstrated success implementing process improvements that enhance service quality, consistency and impact.