Senior Industry Experience and Engagement Officer (HEO 5)

• Based in UniSA STEM at the Mawson Lakes campus
• Full-time, continuing position
• Commencement Salary: $76,304 per annum (plus 17% superannuation)

About You

You are highly motivated with strong organisational skills and initiative to deliver results.  You are collaborative and communicate with impact, easily building rapport at all levels to maximise outcomes. You are detail orientated and thorough and committed to continuous improvement and service excellence.

About the Role

Reporting to the Team Leader: Industry Experience, you will provide high-level operational and project support within the team to increase awareness of, and engagement in, a wide range of student placements, internships, professional practice and extra-curricular activities that enable positive graduate outcomes for STEM students.

The position has a strong customer service focus and you will proactively liaise with a wide range of stakeholders including students, industry partners, academic staff and professional staff to develop and maintain positive, mutually beneficial relationships. You will ensure that work integrated learning activities coordinated within STEM adhere to University policy and procedures, as well as other compliance obligations.

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).

About UniSA

The University of South Australia is Australia’s University of Enterprise. Our culture of innovation is anchored around global and national links to academic, research and industry partners. Our graduates are the new urban professionals, global citizens at ease with the world and ready to create and respond to change. Our research is inventive and adventurous and we create new knowledge that is central to global economic and social prosperity.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline or equivalent skills, knowledge and experience
• Proven ability to be innovative in generating solutions while ensuring compliance with policies, processes, guidelines, and standards to provide advice and recommendations to stakeholders
• High level verbal and interpersonal skills and experience in liaising with people at all levels, both internal and external to an organisation
• High level written communications skills including demonstrated experience in developing communications, resources and online materials for a wide range of audiences
• Demonstrated analytical skills including the use of a variety of data sources to provide advice and recommendation

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

As a University of Enterprise, we offer a dynamic and agile workplace culture, one that embraces challenges and thrives on breaking new ground. Our staff are creative and innovative thinkers, communicating with clarity, conviction and enthusiasm. We embrace diversity and inclusion in a vibrant, engaging environment. Our people are authentic, resilient, and influential, and we deliver results.

Start Your Unstoppable Career 

For a copy of the position description and to apply, please visit Working at UniSA .
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 6014. 

Applications close: 11.30pm Wednesday 10 April 2024

Applications welcomed from Australian or NZ citizens, Australian permanent residents and those who have the legal right to work in Australia for the term of appointment. 

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