Centre Manager

$118,652 to $124,297
- Fixed-term, full-time
- Gardens Point

**Who are we looking for?**

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is seeking a Centre Manager - ITTC to join School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science, Academic Division.

This position requires a person with strong leadership skills, the drive to make decisions, be able to work autonomously, as well as work with a large complex network of collaborators from different fields/industry. The Centre Manager must have the ability to work with a complex network of teams, have strong industry focused engagement, and have the capacity build a cohesive team across the various organisations and stakeholders. This person must be able to represent the Centre and engage with other external organisations. The Centre Manager will also have responsibility for managing the operations of the Centre, the Centre’s budget (including operating and discretionary budgets), delivery of administrative support, and project delivery support. The Centre Manager will collaborate with Staff across the partner organisations and the industry to execute effective operations of the Centre. As the senior administrative lead within the Centre, the position is required to engage on the Centre’s behalf with the Schools and Research Centres of QUT, Office of Research Services, Division of Resources, HR, and other areas of the University (as required) for support in administrative, financial, legal and communications activities at both internal and external stakeholder organisations. This will also include governance implementation, project support, budgeting and finance management, staff and student onboarding, KPIs and reporting and team engagement. This position reports to the Training Centre Director, Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska from the ILAQH, QUT for supervision, workload management and for Performance Planning and Review (PPR).

**Real world impact**

QUT is a major Australian university with a global outlook and a 'real world' focus. We are an ambitious and collaborative institution that seeks to equip our students and graduates with the skills they will need in an increasingly disrupted and challenged world.

**About the School**

The School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) specialises in understanding fundamental chemical and physical processes that operate across Earth’s physical spheres. As researchers and educators, its staff are motivated by the need to solve current global challenges such as the state of the atmosphere, greenhouse gas emissions, energy and resource sustainability, and future planetary habitability.

Core research focuses on the lithosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere. We investigate how these physical spheres have evolved over Earth’s history and observed through geospatial science in order to understand interactions between each sphere and all life. We are a diverse team of experts who deliver world-class education and achieve breakthroughs in research with particular focus on:

- Earth observation
- natural resources
- atmospheric composition and change
- air quality and pollution
- natural hazards
- environmental science challenges (including reef restoration and energy).
- future planetary habitability

The School is looking to broaden existing disciplinary strengths to include expertise in ocean sciences, space sciences and modelling.

Our staff have joined QUT from across the world and are united by the global nature of our research. We are experts in our research areas and hold a number of competitive grants from the Australian Research Council, as well as editorial positions in leading scientific journals, such as Environmental Science and Technology, Atmospheric Environment, and Chemical Geology.

Our research is well-aligned with the university research priorities and strengthens the University’s real-world positioning through better partnerships across internal and external boundaries.

In the 2018 Excellence in Research for Australia evaluation, we received a ranking of 5 (well above world standard) for Geology and 4 (above world standard) for Atmospheric Sciences, giving the School an overall ranking in the Earth Sciences of 4 (above world standard).

We conduct our research using QUT’s state-of
- the art instruments and facilities, including those based within the Central Analytical Research Facility.

**About the ARC Training Centre for Advanced Building Systems Against Airborne Infection Transmission**

The Australian Research Council (ARC) Training Centre for Advanced Building Systems Against Airborne Infection Transmission is a collaboration between QUT, The University of New South Wales (UNSW), The University of Melbourne (UM), and 22 official partner organisations.

The ARC Training Centre headquarters will be located within the Faculty of Science at QUT.

The Centre conducts applied research into airborne infection transmission in all shared interior spaces in all buildings.

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