Faculty Manager
What the work is
Plans, organises, directs, controls and coordinates the educational and administrative aspects of a department, faculty or school within a university, other tertiary education institution or registered training organisation (RTO).
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Coordinates the educational, administrative and financial affairs of an educational institution or department within the institution
- Researches, develops, implements, reviews and evaluates educational and administrative policy
- Liaises between educational institutions, stakeholders and the wider community
- Provides advice on policy and procedures to staff and students
- Consults with academic and administrative staff to coordinate educational programs
- Identifies and addresses present and future needs for student and staff development
- Researches educational systems, and monitors and evaluates new developments
- Researches and reports on student needs arising from curriculum implementation
- Develops and delivers training programs for teachers
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in the trades and applied skills faculty of a fictional technical college in a regional city. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A student who nearly left in their first month stands up at graduation with their family watching
- Teachers from different departments agree on a plan after a long, honest meeting
- An employer calls to say the graduates they hired are the best they have had
Hard days
- A funding change lands and you have to tell a team that a program may not run
- A teacher you respect is not coping and the students are feeling it
- A complaint from a student, backed by a parent, about a decision that was within the rules
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 141431, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.