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AI Lead / 12 Months day rate contract / SydneyAllura Partners • Sydney, NSW, AU
AI Lead / 12 Months day rate contract / Sydney

AI Lead / 12 Months day rate contract / Sydney

Allura Partners • Sydney, NSW, AU
11 days ago
Job description
  • AI
  • Contract
  • Sydney

AI Lead / 12 Months day rate contract / Sydney

About the Company

Our client is a public sector education organisatoin, driving applied AI innovation through its dedicated AI Hub. Sydney based, the Hub supports the organisation push to embed responsible generative AI across research, teaching and student services, with evaluation and governance central to that growth.

About the Role
In this role you'll build the evaluation framework from scratch, lead pre release testing and governance sign off, and monitor production AI services for drift and risk. You'll partner closely with product, delivery and technical teams, plus ICT, Legal, Privacy and data stewardship stakeholders across the AI Hub.

Benefits
A 12 month contract on a day rate
based in Sydney - hybrid 2 days in the office, 3 remote
Chance of extension

Duties / Key Responsibilities

  • Build and continuously improve AI evaluation frameworks, methodologies and standards across the AI Hub portfolio.
  • Design and govern evaluation datasets, metrics and testing approaches covering performance, reliability, safety and quality.
  • Lead pre release testing and assurance, giving governance bodies the independent evidence they need to approve deployment.
  • Run ongoing monitoring and regression testing on production AI services, catching drift and risk early.
  • Partner with technical teams, data stewards and governance stakeholders on data integrity and compliance, while lifting AI evaluation capability across the university.

Skills and Experience

  • Postgraduate qualifications in a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
  • Strong track record in data science, ML, NLP and AI solutions inside complex organisations.
  • Solid grip on generative AI, LLMs, agentic AI frameworks and current data science methods.
  • Sharp analytical and problem solving skills, comfortable interpreting complex data to support evidence based decisions.
  • Proven experience building evaluation, monitoring and training frameworks.
  • Strong communicator who can work the room across Agile, cross functional teams and senior stakeholders.
  • Unrestricted Australian work rights required, no visa sponsorship available.

If you're interested in this opportunity and feel you're the right fit, please click "Apply"

About Allura Partners
Allura Partners was founded to support private equity firms by placing C Suites to lead, transform, and scale portfolio companies. Today, in addition to our proven private equity specialisation, we've become a trusted partner for major ASX listed and private enterprises in Australia, offering executive search, recruitment, and business transformation. Known for integrity, reliability, and results, our expertise spans Executive Search, Accounting & Finance, Transformation & Change, and Technology & Digital. We connect businesses and top tier talent, exceeding expectations and driving lasting impact.

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