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Senior leadership opportunities for First Nations peoples

Join our First Nations Education and Research portfolio as we work toward becoming a renowned place of learning.

Welcome and thank you for considering these key leadership positions in the First Nations Education and Research Portfolio at the University of Southern Queensland.

USQ's 2021 - 2025 Strategic Plan seeks to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to take our rightful place in teaching, research and enterprise, and reach our full potential. The First Nations Education and Research Portfolio is committed to USQ becoming a regionally, nationally and globally renowned place of learning and intercultural exhange, truth-telling, research innovation, and embracing and promoting the importance of 'Country'.

Head of College (College for First Nations)
Learn more and apply for the Head of College (College for First Nations)
Director (First Nations Research Alliance)
Learn more and apply for the Director (First Nations Research Alliance)
Pro Vice-Chancellor (First Nations Education and Research)
Professor Tony Dreise
Tony is a proud descendent of the Guumilaroi and Euahlayi First Nations of north-west New South Wales and south-west Queensland, and is nationally and internationally recognised as a First Nations leader in policy, evaluation and research in the field of education.
USQ welcomes Professor Tony Dreise to inaugural role
Hear from our First Nations people at USQ
Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community
USQ Reconciliation Action Plan
College for Indigenous Studies, Education and Research