TAFE SA
Job reference: 850763
Location: 5010 - REGENCY PARK
Job status: Long Term Contract
Eligibility: Open to Everyone

• Full time fixed term contract until 29 December 2028
• EMB salary $141,716 p.a. + super
• Based at Regency campus / Kaurna Country
• View: Role Description

Hey, future changemaker! Join a team that equips students for success in the real world.

This is your moment to shine, GO GET IT!

TAFE SA, proud winner of Training Provider of the Year in 2021, 2022 & 2024 SA State Awards and winner of the Large Training Provider of the Year 2024 National Training Awards, delivers high-quality, hands-on education across South Australia.

At TAFE SA, our values shape how we work — We Work As One, We Do What Matters, and We Step Up.

Learn more about our values and what it’s like to work at TAFE SA: TAFESA Values

Step Into Your Future

The National Security TAFE Centre of Excellence builds knowledge, skills, and processes to develop Australia’s sovereign capability and ensure its capacity to build sovereign manufacturing, digital and technology capabilities, and enhance and protect Australia’s national security.

As Education Manager (EMB), you will lead the education and product development functions of the Centre, including applied research activities. Ensuring industry informed training solutions meet vocational education and training compliance and quality requirements and model good teaching and learning practices.

Bring your Skills and Passion

• Demonstrated educational leadership, strategic planning capability, interpersonal liaison and negotiating skills, which encourage and foster consultation, participative decision-making, co-operation and effect change within an educational workgroup/s.
• Proven ability to manage, monitor, evaluate, improve and report on the productivity and performance of designated educational workgroup/s.
• Demonstrated ability to implement sound Human Resource Management policies and processes at both individual and organisational levels.
• Demonstrated ability to drive the continuous improvement of an educational program/s, products and services in accordance with the requirements of ASQA (Australian Skills Quality Authority).
• Demonstrated ability to liaise and negotiate with other training providers, schools, Universities, other government agencies, private training providers and Industry.

What You Need to Know

A valid Working with Children Check (WWCC) issued by the South Australian Department of Human Services is required before employment.

Please refer to the Role Description for all Special Conditions.

Perks That Matter

Working at TAFE SA will provide you with a wide range of benefits. These include:

• Generous leave entitlements including Recreation, Sick, Long Service, Retention, Paid Parental, Family & Domestic Violence, Special and Cultural leave that supports cultural diversity and First Nations
• Purchase Annual Leave
• Salary Sacrifice / Salary Packaging options
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Health & Wellbeing Program
• Flexible work arrangements that support work-life balance conditions
• Inclusive, diverse and collaborative culture
• Career development and progression
• Ongoing professional development opportunities

This Could Be You!

Think you’re a fit? Click ‘Apply’, we can’t wait to meet you! Send your resume and a brief (max 2 pages) selection criteria response, with reference to the Role Description and the Industry Addendum. All applications must be submitted online.

For enquiries, contact Nick Howie – Director, Centre of Excellence via email at nick.howie@tafesa.edu.au

Flexibility Meets Inclusion

At TAFE SA, we’re proud to foster an inclusive and respectful workplace. We encourage applications from all backgrounds — including First Nations peoples, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities, LGBTIQA+ individuals, people with disability, and neurodiverse talent. Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Just let us know, we’re here to support you.

First Nations Talent — Driving Change

We’re committed to meaningful career opportunities for First Nations peoples. Learn more in our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.

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Applications close: 29/07/2026 11:45 PM

Flexibility Statement
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.