Senior Academic Services Officer (HEO 5)

• Open to Australian Aboriginal Peoples and UniSA employees only
• Full-time, continuing position based in UniSA STEM at the Mawson Lakes Campus
• Commencement Salary: $76,304 per annum (plus 17% superannuation)

About the Role

Reporting to the Team Leader: Academic Services (UniSA STEM), you will be responsible for providing leadership to the Academic Services Officers at the Mawson Lakes Campus, including resolution of issues and the consistent interpretation and application of the University’s academic administration policies and procedures within UniSA STEM; and undertaking administrative activities associated with the delivery of UniSA STEM’s programs and its research and consultancy activities.

About UniSA STEM

UniSA STEM links engineering, mathematics, science, defence and cybersecurity, environmental science, aviation, information technology, and project management, harnessing the connections across disciplines to bring big ideas to fruition. Our researchers deliver technical expertise and advice to industry, government and community groups to make commercially viable and sustainable impacts. We integrate research into our teaching, with students working alongside researchers in first-class facilities; what’s discovered one day is taught the next. 

Our graduates are entrepreneurs and trailblazers, who design and build the world they want to live in. UniSA STEM also incorporates leading edge research organisations; the Future Industries Institute, the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments and the Centre for Industrial Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Essential Skills and Experience

• An undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline, or demonstrated equivalent skills, knowledge and experience
• Demonstrated previous experience working in a senior administrative position in a complex organisation, involving the provision of advice and recommendations to senior staff
• Highly developed research and analytical skills and experience in the interpretation and application of policies and procedures
• Highly developed organisational skills to manage multiple priorities and projects within tight timelines
• High level verbal and interpersonal skills including experience in liaising with people at all levels both internal and external to an organisation to deliver quality customer service

Getting a great job working with the best is just the start. UniSA rewards its staff with a wide variety of benefits such as: 

• Access to great personal development opportunities 
• Generous superannuation contributions of 17% 
• Work Life flexibility including working from home, family responsibility leave and individual flexibility agreements
• A range of salary packaging options, including vehicle leasing, laptops and car parking fees 
• A variety of leave arrangements

The online application form will list the specific selection criteria that you need to address.  

Please address your cover letter to Amra Delibasic, Consultant: Recruitment Central.  For further information about the position or the recruitment process, please contact UniSA Recruitment Central on +61 8 8302 1700 or via email at [email protected] using job reference number 5995. 

Applications close: 11:30pm Thursday 4 April 2024.

To be eligible to apply for internal positions, you must either identify as an Australian Aboriginal Person, or be a current UniSA continuing, fixed-term or casual staff member at the time the position is advertised and have the legal right to work in Australia for the term of the appointment.

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