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Senior Educational Designer

• Attractive salary and benefits including generous leave provisions
• Make a real impact on student success and learning quality
• Thrive in a professional, purpose-driven, and collaborative environment

The role

• Full Time, Continuing
• Level 8 - $113,948 to $128,980 pa (plus 17% superannuation)
• Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Dubbo, Orange, Port Macquarie or Wagga Wagga

As Senior Educational Designer, you will lead a team to design and deliver high‑quality courses and subjects that advance student success and support educational strategy. You will oversee project workflows, manage risks, and build team capability through mentoring and coaching. Partnering with Faculty and School leaders, you will drive curriculum review and renewal, contribute to course and subject design, and support staff development. You will also model advanced evidence‑based learning design aligned with pedagogical theory, curriculum frameworks, and regulatory requirements.

About you

• A degree with substantial professional practice or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience
• Expertise in curriculum design across courses, subjects, assessments, and learning experiences using evidence‑based frameworks
• Proven success leading curriculum projects involving complex stakeholders, analysis, problem‑solving, and delivery to agreed outcomes
• Strong capability to lead and support teams to achieve priorities, performance standards, and organisational goals
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to negotiate, manage expectations, and navigate change effectively

About us  

We are a university of the land and people of our regions. True to the character of regional Australia we have gumption, we have soul and we collaborate with others. We develop holistic, far-sighted people who help their communities grow and flourish.

The Wiradjuri phrase yindyamarra winhanganha means the wisdom of respectfully knowing how to live well in a world worth living in. This phrase represents who we are at Charles Sturt University – our ethos. It comes from traditional Indigenous Australian knowledge, but it also speaks to the mission of universities – to develop and spread wisdom to make the world a better place.

Harnessing technology, we thrive as a distributed yet connected community, welcoming and engaging with people across Australia and the world.

Learn more about the Division of Learning and Teaching here.

Visit our website to learn about our great range of employee benefits.

Charles Sturt University is committed to building a diverse workforce as shown through our Athena Swan Bronze Award, our Australian Workplace Equality Index Bronze Award and our membership of a range of diversity focused organisations including Diversity Council Australia and Pride in Diversity. We encourage applications from First Nations people, carers, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with disability, neurodivergent people, and people of all age groups, genders and sexualities for all roles.

To apply  

Click the Apply button and complete your application online, submit a “statement of suitability” demonstrating your skills, knowledge and/or experience relevant to the position (referencing the selection criteria in the position description) and upload your CV. If you experience difficulties applying online or for further information on completing the application process please visit our how to apply page or contact us.

This position is open to Australian Citizens and Permanent Residents; or applicants who hold a current valid work visa commensurate with this position.

Further information  

Additional information is available in the position description or by contacting:

Rebecca Acheson | Associate Director, Curriculum Development | racheson@csu.edu.au

Closing Date: 11pm, 16 July 2026

Advertised: 02 Jul 2026 09:00 AM - AUS Eastern Standard Time
Applications close: 16 Jul 2026 11:00 PM - AUS Eastern Standard Time