• Employment Type: Full Time (35 hours per week)
• Duration: Fixed Term until March 2028
• Remuneration: Level 7 from $113,926k + 17% superannuation & leave loading  
• Location:  Kensington NSW (3 days campus based each week)

Why your role matters

As an Equitable Learning Facilitator, you will play a meaningful role in supporting students from diverse backgrounds to fully participate in their education, helping to remove barriers and foster a sense of belonging. This position supports students with neurodiversity, mental health conditions, long-term health concerns, or carer responsibilities that may impact their participation in education, by coordinating and implementing appropriate educational adjustments. Through this work, the role contributes to advancing equity, diversity and inclusion, and improving student participation and success, in line with UNSW’s 2025 Strategy and Gateway Equity targets.

The role is responsible for assessing and coordinating students’ adjustment needs, while also developing a strong understanding of intersectionality across diverse student cohorts. It works collaboratively with colleagues across the PVCESE portfolio and the broader University community to ensure adjustments are effectively implemented. In addition, the Equitable Learning Facilitator provides expert advice and advocacy to support inclusive practices and helps the University meet its legislative obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act. This position reports to the Team Lead, Equitable Learning and does not have direct reports.

The position reports to the Lead, Equitable Learning and does not have direct reports.

Specific accountabilities include:

• Work closely with students to develop, negotiate and implement educational adjustments and services that consider the impacts of their disability, long-term health concern or mental health condition.
• Manage outreach and communication with equity cohort students so that they can readily register with ELS services.
• Manage a caseload and maintain accurate and professional case notes, data and statistics using appropriate client and student management systems, data and reporting tools.
• Provide support, expert advice and resources in relation to the implementation of educational adjustments, inclusive practice and relevant regulatory and legislative requirements to academic and frontline staff, to build the UNSW community’s capacity to include students living with a disability in education and University life.

About You:  

• Relevant tertiary qualification with subsequent relevant experience or equivalent competence gained through any combination of education, training and experience relevant to educational programs and initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience working with students living with diverse lived experience impacting their learning journey (including long term health concerns, mental health conditions, disabilities, neurodiversity and caring responsibilities. Experience working with students from equity backgrounds is also an advantage), using person-centered, strengths-based approaches to foster self-advocacy and independence.
• Demonstrated understanding of the key issues currently impacting accessibility to education across a diverse range of students, coupled with knowledge and understanding of inclusive practice and equal opportunity principles and policies and a commitment to their application in a learning and teaching context.
• Demonstrated ability to use sound judgement and assess the learning impact of studying with a range of disabilities, long term health concerns and/or mental health conditions and to determine individualised educational adjustments.
• Understanding of application and use of inclusive (assistive) technologies to support learning and independence for students living with a disability.
• Strong student focussed service orientation together with excellent interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to influence, negotiate and resolve conflict to build and maintain positive professional relationships across diverse groups of people, both internally and externally.
• Proven ability to work both independently and collaboratively and to contribute positively and proactively to the team’s work. Demonstrated organisational skills, self-motivation, initiative and judgement and the ability to work well under pressure and manage multiple tasks with competing deadlines.
• Working knowledge and understanding of the legislative context including: Disability Discrimination Act (1992), Disability Standards for Education 2005, and Privacy legislation. Capacity to apply this knowledge in the Higher Education environment. Understanding of the UNSW Gateway Equity Target is also required.

For further details on role responsibilities and skills & experience required, refer to the position description found under the position listing on Jobs@UNSW

Benefits and Culture:

People are at the core of everything we do. We recognise it is the contributions of our staff who make UNSW one of the best universities in Australia and the world.

Our benefits include:

• Flexible working options.
• Career development opportunities.
• 17% Superannuation contributions and additional leave loading payments.
• Additional 3 days of leave over Christmas period.
• Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness).

For further details on the benefits, please visit https://www.jobs.unsw.edu.au/lifestyle-benefits

Pre-Employment Checks
Aligned with UNSW’s focus on cultivating a workplace defined by safety, ethical conduct, and strong integrity, preferred candidates will be required to participate in a combination of pre-employment checks relevant to the role they have applied for.

These pre-employment checks may include a combination of some of the following checks:- 

• National and International Criminal history checks
• Entitlement to work and ID checks
• Working With Children Checks
• Completion of a Gender-Based Violence Prevention Declaration
• Verification of relevant qualifications
• Verification of relevant professional membership
• Employment history and reference checks
• Financial responsibility assessments/checks.
• Medical Checks and Assessments

Compliance with the necessary combination of these checks is a condition of employment at UNSW.

How to Apply: Submit your CV & cover letter addressing the key selection criteria (no more than 2 pages) before 11.55pm Monday 6th April 2026. Please note: Sponsorship is not available for this role, valid Australian working rights are required on application.

Job queries contact: Chloe Gane, Talent Acquisition Consultant E: chloe.gane@unsw.edu.au  (applications to the address cannot be accepted, please apply online)

UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion. Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff.