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deputy director

 

Based in the ASU Office of University Affairs, the Deputy Director has a primary duty of supporting the S&D+ Executive Director (based at UNSW) and will be required to manage and work across multiple project teams based in Sydney/Canberra, London, and Phoenix. This requires some flexibility in working hours given the nature of the different time zones, as well as the ability to conduct both domestic and international travel in support of S&D+ operations.

Under the strategic direction of the S&D+ Executive Director, the Deputy Director is responsible for the day-to-day management of the S&D+ program and for representing the Executive Director to both internal and external audiences, as required. 

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This is about investing in our greatest source of strength – our alliances. The United States, Australia and the United Kingdom have long been faithful and capable partners who are even closer today.
Joe Biden (2021)US President,
To meet these challenges, to help deliver the security and stability our region needs, we must now take our partnership to a new level — a partnership that seeks to engage, not to exclude; to contribute, not take; and to enable and empower, not to control or coerce. And so, friends, AUKUS is born…
Scott Morrison (2021)Former Australian Prime Minister,
the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States are creating a new trilateral defense partnership, known as AUKUS, with the aim of working hand in glove to preserve security and stability in the Indo-Pacific.
Boris Johnson (2021)Former UK Prime Minister,
The AUKUS partnership has seventeen trilateral working groups (nine relating to conventionally-armed nuclear-powered submarines, and eight relating to other advanced military capabilities).
Australia will become just the seventh nation in the world to operate nuclear-powered submarines, after the US, UK, France, China, India and Russia.
Bringing together the military industrial complex of these three allies together is a step change in the relationship. We’ve always been interoperable, but this aims at much more. From artificial intelligence to advanced technology the US, UK and Australia will now be able to cost save by increasing platform sharing and innovation costs. Particularly for the smaller two, that’s game-changing.
Tom Tugendhat (2021)Chair, British Commons' Foreign Affairs Committee
Nuclear-powered submarines have superior characteristics of stealth, speed, maneuverability, survivability, and almost limitless endurance, when compared to conventional submarines. They can operate in contested areas with a lower risk of detection and deter actions against Australia’s interests.
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