Description:
(HEO7) $98,343 - $109,989 per annum plus an employer contribution of 17% superannuation applies.
Fulltime, fixed term position available, until 31/12/2025. Enjoy flexible work arrangements, a friendly team environment, outstanding learning opportunities & more!
Great opportunity for a proactive and collaborative Business Development professional to drive business growth for SA’s leading provider of professional development and workforce training solutions.
As the Senior Business Development Officer for Professional at the University of Adelaide, you’ll be actively working with potential and existing B2B clients in promoting, developing, managing, and evaluating our range of customised education solutions.
Our customised education solutions are currently delivered to a diverse client-base that includes local, national, and international organisations, including the defence, energy and mining and health sectors.
Working within a small team of business development professionals, you will have a detailed understanding of market demand and undertake viability assessments to ensure our customised education offering is ‘fit for purpose’ and meeting the demands of learners, as well as clients in industry, government, and the community.
Your personable nature and outstanding communication and networking skills will enable you to help build the brand presence of Professional and Continuing Education, by attending events and delivering presentations to a variety of stakeholders.
To be successful you will need:
- Demonstrated experience in business development, preferably in both private and public sectors, with demonstrated links to relevant organisations.
- Demonstrated success in identifying revenue streams and increasing revenue.
- Experience networking, prospecting and identifying new market opportunities.
- Experience developing and delivering business plans, including financial planning and reporting.
- Knowledge of business development, tendering and identification of funding opportunities aligned to the University's activity.
- High level verbal and written communication skills, including experience negotiating contracts or service level agreements, and developing business proposals.
- Demonstrated stakeholder management skills and ability to bring proposals to fruition in complex environments.
- Ability to meet deadlines; manage competing pressures and interests; and work with a team to achieve successful outcomes.
- Experience with CRM management, data interpretation and report generation.
The path to Adelaide University
We are on an exciting path to Adelaide University as we prepare to open our doors in January 2026. Adelaide University will combine the strengths of the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia, and we are dedicated to creating an accessible and future-focused educational powerhouse that fosters economic and social wellbeing through ground-breaking research and innovative teaching. You can learn more about Adelaide University HERE and more information will be provided throughout the recruitment process.
Enjoy an outstanding career environment
The University of Adelaide is a uniquely rewarding workplace. The size, breadth and quality of our education and research programs - including significant industry, government and community collaborations - offers you a vast scope and opportunity for a long, fulfilling career.
It also enables us to attract high-calibre people in all facets of our operations, ensuring you will be surrounded by talented colleagues, many world-leading. Our work's cutting-edge nature - not just in your own area, but across virtually the full spectrum of human endeavour - provides a constant source of inspiration.
Our culture is one that welcomes all and embraces diversity consistent with our Staff Values and Behaviour Framework and our Values of integrity, respect, collegiality, excellence and discovery. We firmly believe that our people are our most valuable asset, so we work to grow and diversify the skills, knowledge and capability of all our staff.
We embrace flexibility as a key principle to allow our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal and family life.
In addition, we offer a wide range of attractive staff benefits. These include: salary packaging; flexible work arrangements; high quality professional development programs and activities; and an on-campus health clinic, gym and other fitness facilities.
Learn more at: adelaide.edu.au/jobs
Your division's broader role
The Division of Academic and Student Engagement drives the University's strategic activities in relation to learning and teaching. This includes ensuring all Adelaide students have a quality experience, and investing in our academic staff's professional development.
Professional and Continuing Education is a business unit within The Division of Academic Student Engagement. It offers executive education programs, professional development short courses, workforce strategy and planning services, and customised education solutions to help individuals and organisations upskill for the future of work.
Its team of business development, product design, marketing and communications and course delivery specialists support and enable the University to pursue strategic, revenue-generating educational opportunities in Australia, and internationally.
Professional and Continuing Education forms part of the Education Transformation portfolio, within the University’s Division of Academic and Student Engagement. Learn more at: adelaide.edu.au/dase/division-leadership.
Learn more at: adelaide.edu.au/dase/division-leadership
If you have the talent, we'll give you the opportunity. Together, let's make history.
Click on the ‘Apply Now’ button to be taken through to the online application form. Please ensure you submit a cover letter, resume, and upload a document that includes your responses to all of the selection criteria for the position as outlined in the position description.
Applications close 11:55pm, 1 May 2025.
The University reserves the right to close this advertisement before the closing date if a suitable candidate is identified.
For further information
For a confidential discussion regarding this position; contact:
Grega Vrettis
Associate Director, Business Development | Professional and Continuing Education
P: 0401 557 819
E: grega.vrettis@adelaide.edu.au
You'll find a full position description below.
The University of Adelaide is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. Female applicants, people with a disability and/or and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who meet the requirements of this position are strongly encouraged to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application.
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