Security Manager, Risk & Compliance

• Employment Type: Continuing, Full-time, 35 hours per week opportunity
• Remuneration: Level 8 – from $132K + 17% superannuation and leave loading
• Location: Kensington, NSW

 

About UNSW

At UNSW, we pride ourselves on being a workplace where the best people come to do their best work.  We aspire to be Australia’s global university, improving and transforming lives through excellence in research, outstanding education and a commitment to advancing a just society. 

About the Role

Protective Services operate together within Estate Management to maintain campus safety and operational integrity.

Reporting to the Director, Protective Services, the Security Manager – Risk & Compliance leads the security risk, threat assessment, and governance functions across the campus network. Managing one direct report (Senior Security Coordinator), the position establishes a proactive, intelligence-led approach to safety by managing security risk registers, threat monitoring, CPTED design reviews, and personal threat management.

The position integrates security risk mitigation into capital projects, operational planning, and event assessments while ensuring compliance with privacy and surveillance legislation. Additionally, the Manager oversees system access governance, coordinates operational exercises to maintain response capabilities, and embeds best practice risk management to foster a safe, resilient campus environment.

The successful applicant will be required to undertake and have experience in the following areas of expertise:     

• Lead and develop direct reports to ensure performance, capability development, and service quality standards are achieved across the team.
• Work collaboratively with operational leaders across Protective Services and EM to align cross-functional initiatives and strategic objectives.
• Maintain and oversee the Directorate’s security risk register, ensuring emerging threats and vulnerabilities are identified, assessed, prioritised, and mitigated.
• Lead campus security risk assessments, integrating CPTED and Safer By Design principles into capital projects, while evaluating risk forms for medium-to-high risk events.
• Coordinate the Personal Threat Management Procedure, conducting assessments, implementing control measures, and briefing operational teams effectively.
• Drive compliance activities and system access audits across the Directorate, ensuring strict alignment with legislative, regulatory, privacy, and university requirements.
• Develop and maintain an operational exercise programme alongside the Emergency Manager to test Security Operations Centre capabilities, while participating in the Protective Services on-call roster.

 

About You

• Relevant tertiary qualification and 5+ years of experience in security risk management, compliance, and threat mitigation planning, supported by a NSW Security Licence 2A.
• Proven track record in developing and maintaining security risk registers, conducting comprehensive risk and threat assessments, and delivering strategic advisory services to operational teams.
• Comprehensive knowledge of relevant national security guidelines, CPTED and Safer by Design principles, alongside key legislative, privacy, and surveillance requirements.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder engagement skills, with a demonstrated ability to manage sensitive information and ensure compliance with IT security standards.
• Sound understanding of and commitment to UNSW’s aims, values in action, and relevant organisational policies and guidelines.

 

For further information on the role & responsibilities, please refer to the Position Description

How to Apply: Submit your CV & cover letter detailing your interest and suitability for the job (as per the skills & experience bullet points in the Position Description) before 11:55pm on Tuesday 24 November 2026.

Please note: Sponsorship is not available for this role, valid Australian working rights are required on application.

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: 

• On Campus role
• Additional 3 days leave during December festive period.
• Career development opportunities 
• Up to 50% discount on UNSW courses
• Flexible 17% Superannuation contributions, additional leave-loading payments and salary sacrifice.
• Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness passport)

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.

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.