Strategic and operational planning

Key responsibilities include managing the University’s strategic and operational planning and performance monitoring activities:

·         coordinating development of UQ’s strategic plan

·         developing the University’s key performance indicators

·         providing senior management and the University Senate with reports on UQ’s progress against its strategic plan and key performance indicators.

Business intelligence

Key responsibilities

·         Management, maintenance and development of the UQ Data Warehouse.

·         Providing data and reports via the UQ Data Warehouse and UQ Reportal.

·         Supporting the University community to access a wide range of data by:  assisting with all UQ Reportal queries, including accessing and modifying standard reports, bespoke reporting, publishing to Unit Reports, BusinessObjects training and data source/UQ Data Warehouse development.

Federal Government reporting

Key responsibilities

·         Fulfilling the University’s statutory reporting requirements through the preparation and validation of student data for submission to the Australian Government.

·         Providing direction and advice to relevant University staff — particularly faculty administrative and student system support staff — in relation to the requirements and their role in developing Australian Government student data submissions.

·         Monitoring internal student data development and integrity.

Student load planning, admissions and program development

Key responsibilities

·         Undertaking student load planning, preparing student load and income projections and ensuring compliance with the University’s funding agreement and related policies.

·         Managing domestic undergraduate and graduate entry medicine admissions from the perspective of setting and monitoring offer targets within strategic quality objectives .

·         Managing the University’s program development strategy and framework, including the provision of analytics to identify new program opportunities and review and improve existing program offerings.

·         Providing support and guidance for academic units in the development of business cases for new academic programs.

Strategic analysis, surveys and dashboards

Key responsibilities

·         Providing data analytics to support strategic decision making particularly in relation to university admissions and enrolments, the student experience, graduate outcomes and teaching and learning quality.

·         Managing the University’s participation in national student surveys (e.g. the Student Experience Survey and Graduate Outcomes Survey).

·         Development and maintenance of performance dashboards.

·         Managing data submissions to university rankings agencies.

·         Developing the University’s annual Environmental Scan on the higher education sector.