- Total remuneration range $133,806 to $153,649 pa
- Full-time continuing appointment
- Toowoomba, Springfield or Ipswich campus
- $112,845 to $129,580 pa + 17% Super + Leave Loading
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Full-time continuing appointment (36 hours/week)
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Toowoomba, Springfield or Ipswich
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To be considered for this position, you will need to have the right to work in Australia.
Are you passionate about creating an exceptional library experience for students, staff, and academics? Then join us to help shape the future of open scholarship at UniSQ. As our Scholarly Communications Librarian, you’ll play a pivotal role in enhancing the visibility, impact, and integrity of UniSQ research.
You’ll lead strategic initiatives in scholarly publishing, open access, and research visibility, working collaboratively across the University to support researchers and strengthen our institutional research capability. In this influential role, you will provide senior expertise and leadership in advancing UniSQ’s scholarly communication practices, ensuring our research is discoverable, responsible, and aligned with national and international standards.
Who you are
You’re a collaborative and forward-thinking library professional with a passion for scholarly communication, open research and research impact. You thrive at the intersection of research, publishing and innovation, and you’re energised by shaping how knowledge is shared, discovered and valued across the academic community.
You build strong, trusted relationships with ease and take pride in helping academics and researchers navigate an evolving publishing landscape. A confident communicator and natural collaborator, you bring curiosity, initiative and a client-focused mindset, paired with a commitment to service excellence and continuous improvement.
A trusted advisor and effective communicator, you build strong relationships across diverse stakeholder groups and take pride in delivering practical, client-focused solutions. You bring expertise in scholarly publishing, research metrics and researcher profiles, along with the ability to provide clear guidance, training and support to academics, researchers and students.
You’re equally comfortable engaging with academics, researchers and senior leaders, and you enjoy translating complex concepts into clear, practical and accessible advice. Above all, you are committed to advancing research capability and contributing to a culture of openness, integrity and collaboration across the University community.
What you'll do
In this influential role, you’ll shape scholarly communication services that enhance the visibility, accessibility and impact of UniSQ research. Working closely with academics, researchers and professional teams, you’ll provide expert advice on scholarly publishing, open access, researcher profiles and responsible research metrics.
Over your first 6–12 months, you’ll build strong stakeholder relationships, strengthen awareness of scholarly communications services, and contribute to initiatives that support open research and research excellence.
Your day-to-day work will include:
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Providing advice on scholarly publishing, open access and research visibility
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Supporting academics and HDR students with researcher profiles and publication strategies
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Delivering training, resources and capability-building initiatives
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Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to improve services and support strategic priorities
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Monitoring sector trends and contributing to innovative, evidence-based service improvements
This is an exciting opportunity to influence research practices, drive service innovation and make a meaningful impact across the University community.
What will help you succeed
You will have relevant postgraduate qualifications in Library and Information Science and eligibility for Associate (or higher) membership of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), or extensive equivalent professional experience and expertise.
You’ll ideally have:
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Substantial experience in scholarly communications, research support or a related higher education or research environment
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Strong knowledge of scholarly publishing, open access, researcher profiles and bibliometrics
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Experience providing strategic advice and support to academics, researchers and senior leaders
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Highly developed communication, presentation and relationship-building skills
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Experience designing and delivering training, resources or capability-building initiatives
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A collaborative approach with a commitment to service excellence.
You’ll thrive in this role if you’re adaptable, strategically minded and passionate about supporting research excellence and innovation.
For further information about this role, please contact Dr Tricia Kelly, Senior Manager (Academic Liaison) via +61 7 3470 4242 or [email protected].
Building on its strengths as Australia’s leading regional university, UniSQ partners closely with its communities to drive innovation and create opportunity through education and research. Guided by our values of respect, integrity, and excellence, UniSQ’s Strategic Plan 2026–2030 sets a clear ambition: to be Australia’s most transformative university by embracing our regional identity, fostering inclusive learning and research environments, and delivering globally relevant outcomes with strong local impact.
The University offers a range of different ways of working and connecting across our physical and virtual spaces to meet the needs of our students, partners and community. We value diversity and strive to foster an inclusive environment that is underpinned by our values and champions, embraces and respects differences.
We support and encourage applications from all diversity groups. With an increasingly diverse workforce, we understand that careers may be placed on hold or limited throughout many life circumstances.
Find out more about UniSQ at www.unisq.edu.au.
To be considered for this position, you will need to have the right to work in Australia.
Reference Number: 0105_05/26
Location: Toowoomba campus OR Springfield campus OR Ipswich campus
Term: Full-time continuing appointment (36 hours/week)
Salary: Total remuneration range $133,806 to $153,649 pa (includes salary range of $112,845 to $129,580 pa, employer super contributions of 17% and annual leave loading)
Closes: Thursday, 18 June 2026 at 11:30 pm (AEST)
At UniSQ we are united by our core values of Respect, Integrity and Excellence, which guide our daily actions and decision-making. UniSQ is a child safe organisation.
As part of the University of Southern Queensland's commitment to fostering a safe, respectful and rewarding work environment and in compliance with our legal obligations, we require candidates to declare whether they have been investigated for an allegation of Gender Based Violence, or determined to have engaged in conduct that constitutes Gender Based Violence, during the course of their previous employment or in any legal process.
This information helps us meet our legal obligations under the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender Based Violence, and will be considered when determining a candidate's suitability for employment, so that we can keep our University community safe.
If you know that this role is right for you, please submit your current resume together with a two-page (maximum) statement, outlining your skills and experience relative to ‘Who we’re looking for’ in the position description.
For more information on our selection process please refer to your recruitment journey, available on our website.
