Senior Casual Academic Administration Officer

Senior Casual Academic Administration Officer

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Senior Casual Academic Administration Officer

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• Full time, Fixed-term opportunity until 31st December 2025
• Exciting opportunity to help a newly formed team still within the project phase grow
• Base Salary $103, % superannuation

About the opportunity

The University of Sydney is looking for a Senior Casual Academic Administration Officer to join a newly established team. This role presents an exciting opportunity to be at the heart of casual academic administration, ensuring seamless coordination, compliance, and efficiency in work allocation processes. You will oversee daily administrative activities, support Casual Academic staff, maintain accurate documentation, and support in continuous improvement initiatives. Additionally, you'll play a key role in onboarding and training new team members, engaging with stakeholders, and managing timesheet processes. If you thrive in a dynamic environment, enjoy problem-solving, and are passionate about optimizing operations, this role offers a rewarding and impactful career path within the University.

Your key responsibilities will be to :

manage daily administrative activities, supporting casual academic staff, tracking work allocations, and ensuring efficiency in processes.triaging and tracking technical issues raised by Casual Academic Administrative Officerspreparing onboarding and training material for new Casual Academic Administrative Officers, including the existing and ongoing upliftsupport compliance with university policies, and process improvement initiativesrespond to enquiries, liaising with faculty staff, and fostering professional relationshipsmaintain accuracy in work allocation databases, and processing updates.

About you

high level communication skills with the ability to influence others to actionexcellent administrative and data entry skills, with strong attention to detailadvanced computer skills, including Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excelprevious administrative experience in a tertiary organisation and knowledge of the higher education sector would be an advantage.

To keep our community safe, please be aware of our COVID safety precautions which form our conditions of entry for all staff, students and visitors coming to campus.

Work Rights

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

Pre-employment checks

Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all role required pre-employment or background checks in terms satisfactory to the University. Similarly, your ongoing employment is conditional upon the satisfactory maintenance of all relevant clearances and background check requirements. If you do not meet these conditions, the University may take any necessary step, including the termination of your employment.

EEO statement

At the University of Sydney, our shared values include diversity and inclusion and we strive to be a place where everyone can thrive. We are committed to creating a University community that reflects the wider community that we serve. We deliver on this commitment through our people and culture programs, as well as key strategies to increase participation and support the careers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people living with a disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and those who identify as LGBTIQ. We welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds.

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