Boating and Dive Officer

**Company Description** Every institution values excellence. What matters most is why.**
Griffith was created to be a different type of university. You’ll find we’re about leading research, academic excellence, and the transformative power of education. But what sets us apart is why those things matter and how you’ll achieve them.

**Why?** Griffith brings together exceptional minds like yours from across the globe and from all walks of life. Here, we do incredible work, questioning and challenging, always in the pursuit of excellence.

Griffith Sciences Group takes pride in its ongoing global contributions to the higher education sector. Such wide-ranging and purposeful exposure ensures an inherent capability to not only influence young minds, but to also guide, instruct and assist public and private enterprise, the environment, related economies and society in general.

The Boating and Dive Officer (BDO) will manage all aspects of boating and diving operations within the Sciences Group. You will be working with a broad cliental base to facilitate diverse achievements - from the up-skilling of STEM students to supporting world leading researchers tackling complex environmental issues involving our most precious resource - water.

Responsibilities include:

- Co-ordination and review of fieldwork involving water-based activities (e.g., boating, diving, snorkelling, kayaking/canoeing - in both marine and freshwater environments) and terrestrial-based activities.
- Holistic induction and training of personnel undertaking fieldwork - from the planning/submission phase of the fieldwork to the safe departure from
- and return to
- campus, and everything in between.
- In-water assessment and certification of divers
- Direct operational support of fieldwork activities (e.g., operation and supervision of watercraft including launching, piloting, retrieving, as well as participation in dive operations)
- Records management of: qualifications (e.g., boating, diving, first aid), equipment (e.g., licensing/certification, maintenance), risk management (e.g., guidelines, manuals, procedures, risk assessments, SOPs/SWMS), and training (e.g., verifications of competency, inductions)
- Management of planned preventative maintenance schedules for Sciences managed water-based equipment and watercraft
- Ensuring legislative and regulatory compliance for all fieldwork activities
- Management of building wardens and first aid officer complements

The BDO is a member of the Technical Coordination and Logistics (TCL) Team, reporting to the Senior Technical Manager within the Sciences Group at Griffith University.

**About you**
Technical Coordination and Logistics shares the Science Group and broader University's commitment to health and safety, ethics, integrity, inclusion, and professionalism.
- Highly professional and safety conscious
- Able to advise, instruct, and adhere to Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) policies/procedures
- Strong and effective communicator
- Ability to train, assess and certify personnel
- Organized and can navigate competing priorities
- Manage maintenance schedules of watercraft

**Qualifications**
To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Drivers Licence
- Boating Qualifications:

- Minimum: Qld Recreational Boating Licence
- Preferred: Coxswain Grade 1 Near Coastal
- Diving Qualifications:

- Minimum: Ability to train and certify occupational SCUBA divers in accordance with AS 2815.1:2021
- Preferred: Ability to train and certify occupational SCUBA divers in accordance with AS 2815.5:2013
- First Aid Qualifications (in accordance with AS/NZS 2299.1)
- Minimum: HLTAID011 Provide First Aid
- Minimum: HLTAID015 Provide Advanced Resuscitation and Oxygen Therapy
- Ability to maintain current “Diver Medical Fitness” certificate (or equivalent in accordance with AS/NZS 2299.1)
- Teaching Qualifications:

- Preferred: TAE 40122 - Certificate IV in Training and Assessment

**Additional Information** What we can offer**
This is a continuing, full-time position and will be primarily based at the Griffith University Gold Coast campus. As Griffith is a multi-campus University you may be required to work across other campus locations.

Griffith University’s campuses are located on the lands of the Yugarabul, Yuggera, Jagera, Turrbal, Yugambeh and Kombumerri peoples.

**Salary Range**
The full time equivalent base salary will be HEW Level 7 range $96,669 - $104,731 per annum + 17% superannuation. The total FTE package will be in the range $113,102 - $122,535 per annum.

**Why join Griffith?**
As a values-led organisation, at Griffith University, we've worked hard to create a dynamic and strong organisational culture. We offer:

- Wide range of Learning and Development opportunities
- Salary packaging options and corporate health discounts
- Generous leave entitlements including paid parental leave and leave loading
- Health Safety and Wellbeing initiatives - on campus Gym facilities

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