Senior Project Officer - CoralWatch

• Faculty of Science

• Join the CoralWatch Project team, a part of the Centre for Marine Science

• Coordinate and support a wide range of activities to achieve project outcomes

• Part-time opportunity until end of October 2025

• Based at St Lucia Campus

About UQ

As part of the UQ community, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world.

Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world. By supporting the academic endeavour across teaching, research, and the student life, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to activities that have a lasting impact on our community.

Join a community where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued and a range of benefits and rewards are available, such as:

• 26 weeks paid parental leave or 14 weeks paid primary caregiver leave

• 17% superannuation contributions

• 17.5% annual leave loading

• Access to flexible working arrangements including hybrid working options, flexible start/finish times, purchased leave, and a condensed fortnight

• Health and wellness discounts – fitness passport access, free yearly flu vaccinations, discounted health insurance, and access to our Employee Assistance Program for staff and their immediate family

• On campus childcare options

• Cheap parking (from just $5.75 a day)

• Salary packaging options

About This Opportunity 

The Senior Project Officer CoralWatch will be assisting with the daily project management for CoralWatch, including administrative, finance, marketing, event coordination, and liaising with CoralWatch users to monitor the health of coral reefs worldwide.

Key responsibilities will include: 

• Coordinating aspects of the project-delivery cycle, including planning, delivery, monitoring, and evaluation to support the success of the project. Providing project and administrative support, including monitoring and reporting on project plans, milestones and deliverables

• Coordinating aspects of the project budget

• Assist with grant writing

• Providing a range of administrative services, including coordinating activities and engagements

• Communicating information accurately to diverse stakeholders using a range of mediums

• Develop and manage overall CoralWatch social media content and communication strategy including regular updates of the CoralWatch website

• Analyse data from CoralWatch global bleaching database, report on key project and study findings and communicate to project participants

• Support users of the CoralWatch system

• Collaborate with current CoralWatch project partners and connect with new partners and complementary reef monitoring and education programs

• Assist with workshops, community events and the promotion, production and distribution of CoralWatch materials (including Reef Monitoring kits, education materials and reef education packages)​

This is a part-time (50%), fixed-term position until October 2025, with potential renewal pending funding.

At HEW level 6, the full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $88,099.39 - $94,512.08, plus a generous super allowance of up to 17%. The total FTE package will be up to $103,076.28 - $110,579.13 annually. As this role is covered by an Enterprise Agreement, you will also receive regular remuneration increases – at least once a year.

About You

• A Bachelor’s degree in Science (Marine Biology or equivalent) with relevant experience or equivalent experience and/or equivalent education/training

• Demonstrated experience in providing project coordination and/or administrative support

• Demonstrated knowledge of data analysis

• Experience in social media and marketing

• Excellent time management skills, including the ability to balance competing priorities within tight timeframes

• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a broad range of stakeholders

• Advanced written and oral communication skills

• Experience using Adobe creative suite and Word press would be advantageous, or a proven ability to quickly adapt to new project management software

In addition, the following mandatory requirements apply:

• Work Rights: You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment. 

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Diana Kleine at [email protected] . For application queries, please contact [email protected] stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line. 
 

All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:

• Cover letter addressing the ‘About You’ section  

• Resume 

Other Information 

At UQ we know that our greatest strengths come from our diverse mix of colleagues, this is reflected in our ongoing commitment to creating an environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion .  We ensure that we are always attracting, retaining and promoting colleagues who are representative of the diversity in the broader community, whether that be gender identity , LGBTQIA+ , cultural and/or linguistic , Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples , or people with a disability . Accessibility requirements and/or adjustments can be directed to [email protected] .

If you are a current employee (including casual staff and HDR scholars) or hold an unpaid/affiliate appointment, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board.

Applications close Wednesday 27 March 2024 at 11.00pm AEST (Job Reference Number - R-35404).