Curriculum Management Coordinator

About The Team

The Office of Quality and Standards at Murdoch University provides central services to ensure quality and compliance, develop educational policy, and manage curriculum and student integrity. Our team also maintains academic quality, compliance with policies and regulations, and enhances quality and compliance processes and data quality. Additionally, we lead strategic programs aligned with the University's vision, driving continuous improvement.

Our collaborative Curriculum Quality and Management team supports the University's curriculum management and governance functions and maintains the University's curriculum management system.

Your New Role

Your curriculum management role involves ensuring curriculum change proposals are comprehensive, clearly documented, compliant with policy and procedure, and successfully navigated through the approvals process.

As a Curriculum Management Coordinator you'll work closely with academic staff to help turn their ideas for new or updated curriculum into reality, guiding them through the curriculum management process from initial concept to final approval. Your curriculum management role involves ensuring proposals for curriculum change are comprehensive, clearly documented, compliant with policy and quality standards, and successfully navigated through the approvals process.

You will need excellent attention to detail as well as a capacity to understand the bigger picture. You'll depend on your excellent communication skills and your ability to juggle multiple tasks, and you will work well independently and within teams.

Your key duties :

Support the planning, design and execution of curriculum projects, ensuring deadlines and milestones are identified and met.

Facilitate effective two-way communication between academic Schools and the Quality and Standards Office to coordinate and enable integration of curriculum management, reporting and review processes.

Deliver processes which support the curriculum management function, including advising on all aspects of curriculum portfolio planning, documenting curriculum for approval, and providing secretarial support to committees reviewing curriculum changes.

Use your knowledge of relevant policies, procedures and government requirements applying to curriculum to ensure that curriculum changes are compliant.

Please note : This role focuses on curriculum management rather than curriculum design. The position does not involve designing or developing curriculum content. Please refer to the Position Description for further details.

What We Offer You

This Continuous| Full Time (37.5 hours per week) attracts a remuneration of $89K – $107K (pro rata) plus 17% employer superannuation contributions.

You'll join a dynamic and talented team where diversity and innovation thrive. Our Silver-tier status in the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI), awarded in 2025, reflects our commitment to LGBTIQA+ inclusion, equity, and creating a safe, welcoming environment for all. We strive to be the university of choice for First Nations peoples, honouring Indigenous knowledge. Sustainability is central to our community and guided by clear, confident leadership, we are working toward an ambitious future with goals of net zero emissions and zero waste by 2030.

As well as the flexibility to maintain a work life balance, our staff enjoy a vibrant, natural campus with world-class facilities, along with a variety of benefits, including :

Periodic salary increases between 1 Jan 2026 to 1 July 2026 totalling a 4% increase

Flexible work arrangements

Cultural Load and allowance - providing up to $8,944 per year to First Nations employees who are contributing cultural knowledge and perspectives beyond the scope of their role

Indigenous Language Allowance

Salary packaging options – such as purchasing leave, gym membership, car parking permit

Employee Assistance Program

On-campus services and facilities, such as a Childcare Centre, Gym, Vet Hospital, and Chiropractic Clinic

For further information, check out our benefits and services page.

Join us

Please apply online via the Apply Now button, along with submitting the following documents to support your application -

A cover letter outlining your interest in the role and addressing each of the selection criteria (with reference to the Position Description). Applications not addressing the selection criteria may not be considered.

Your most recent resume (CV)

What you'll bring to the role :

A tertiary qualification with subsequent relevant experience or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and / or education / training.

Experience in the successful delivery of curriculum management tasks.

Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective working relationships and deliver high-quality service in a collaborative environment.

Understanding and experience of the quality and regulatory environment in Australian Higher Education and of systems and processed to assure quality and standards in learning and teaching

Knowledge of good practices, developments and trends in Higher Education learning and teaching (including international) and an ability to analyse both qualitative and quantitative evidence of learning and teaching quality.

Experience developing and preparing written documentation required for the establishment, maintenance and service of committees and governance processes.

Please note, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a criminal record check in accordance with the University's Criminal Record Screening Procedure and Employee Background Checks Procedure.

Applicants should refer to the Position Description for further details on the work requirements, duties, skills and experience required for this role. Applications sent by post or email will not be accepted.

Please note visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Applicants are expected to have current and valid work rights in Australia.

Please see the Applicant Guide for more information. Applicants who have support or access requirements, are encouraged to advise this at the time of their application, to ensure appropriate assistance is provided throughout the recruitment process.

Contact Us

For enquiries about the opportunity on offer please reach out to Michelle Blakiston, Manager Curriculum Quality and Management, and quote JR103977 as the reference.

Applications Close on 4 September : 59pm AWST)

The University reserves the right to withdraw this advertisement at any time.

Murdoch University acknowledges the different perspectives, skills and experience that people from different backgrounds bring to strengthen its workforce. Murdoch University is committed to enhancing diversity in all its forms and strongly encourages suitably qualified candidates from Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, people with disability, people of CaLD background and people of diverse genders to apply for this important position.

Murdoch University values workplace diversity, promotes inclusion, and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, women, and individuals with disability. Applicants who have support or access requirements, are encouraged to advise this at the time of their application, to ensure appropriate assistance is provided throughout the recruitment process.