Anne Kealley, Chief Executive Officer at CAUDIT is retiring

Recently the BA community has warmly welcomed their new Chair, Janet Green, Senior Manager, Business Analysis and Process Improvement, Deakin University. 
Janet has been working in the Higher Ed sector for 13 years and over that time has worked in Business Analysis, Change Management and PMO management roles. 
With Janet now on board, the community has also made the move from Yammer to MS Teams. As the community hasn't had a Chair since 2018, we are excited to have Janet promote fresh engagement within the community.

CAUDIT has been working on developing a service that offers product and service providers and sector organisations alike, a number of streamlined ways to engage with CAUDIT. The result is the CAUDIT Partner Program which provides multi-level engagement pathways, each with a set of pre-defined benefits that provide opportunity for engagement and collaboration with CAUDIT member organisations.

For some time now the executive leadership of CAUDIT and UCISA have supported and encouraged their respective Enterprise Architecture Communities of Practice to collaborate to explore opportunities and mutual advantages through harmonising the CAUDIT and UCISA Higher Education Enterprise Architecture Reference Models. 

The inaugural 2020 CAUDIT Cybersecurity Benchmarking survey was completed by 34 of 39 Australian Institutions, all eight New Zealand Institutions and two affiliate member institutions. The support of participating institutions is appreciated in the first CAUDIT Cybersecurity Benchmarking survey.

We understand the start of the year is a busy time with many planning workloads and determining priorities for the year ahead. We also acknowledge that people will be taking time off during the Easter Break. With this in mind, we have extended the close date for the 2021 CAUDIT Awards nominations to 9am AEST, Monday 19 April. We hope this will give you more than enough time to complete your entry to a high standard.

Following the success of the inaugural AHECS Cybersecurity Summit, the Summit will return in 2021, remaining as an online event. The AHECS Cybersecurity Summit will run over two days, Tuesday 09 November 2021 and Wednesday 10 November 2021.

In late 2020, the CAUDIT Executive approved additional staffing for the Strategic Procurement Service, with a Procurement Officer (1.0), and an Admin Officer, Procurement (0.5) to be appointed.  These positions have been posted to the CAUDIT website.  If you are interested in the positions, or would like more information, please reach out to the Director, Strategic Procurement, 

Motivated by staff movement over the previous 12 months, CAUDIT is developing a ‘Talent Pool’ which will serve as a mechanism for CAUDIT Member organisations to target job seekers who have experience within the higher education sector. There is substantial value in securing staff who possess sector knowledge, especially when filling temporary or short-term contract roles.