Executive Assistant

3 months ago


City East, Australia University of South Australia Full time

Based in Allied Health & Human Performance at the City East campus
- Full-time, fixed term contract until 3 August 2025
- Commencement salary: $76,304 per annum (plus 17% superannuation)

**About You**

You’re a flexible, proactive, and highly organised professional with a passion for delivering seamless executive support. Your ability to build strong relationships with diverse stakeholders, combined with your outstanding communication skills, helps you navigate complex environments with diplomacy and tact. You’re resourceful, reliable, and consistently take the initiative. Trust and collaboration are at the heart of how you work.

**About the Role**

Reporting to the Executive Officer, you’ll provide high-level executive support to the Executive Dean, Dean of Research, and General Manager. You’ll manage complex schedules, coordinate travel, and prepare essential documents for key meetings. As the primary point of contact for the leadership team, you’ll ensure clear communication, maintain confidentiality, and keep operations running smoothly. You’ll also organise events, manage records, and contribute to a collaborative, positive team culture.

**About the Allied Health and Human Performance Unit**

At UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance, we shape community wellbeing by educating future health professionals, producing graduates who contribute to the future health workforce. We deliver solutions-based research that addresses global health needs, working with industry and the community to solve critical health challenges.

**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**
- Post-secondary qualifications in a business or administrative related discipline or equivalent demonstrated experience
- Significant experience in providing executive level support (including complex diary management) to senior managers with the requirement to proactively respond to challenges, determine competing priorities, exercise independent judgement, work with documents of a sensitive nature, and an ability to maintain confidentiality of the highest standard
- Superior interpersonal/ communication skills and experience building relationships and demonstrating the highest level of customer service with a diverse range of people and cultures at various levels
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to work to tight deadlines and anticipate future requirements. High degree of initiative and resourcefulness, with the ability to instigate and undertake tasks with mínimal supervision or direction including acting as a team-player
- Demonstrated ability to produce quality correspondence with high level attention to detail and the ability to provide editing and presentation assistance on a broad range of documentation

**Benefits**

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%
- A range of salary packaging options, including vehicle leasing, laptops and car parking fees
- Corporate health insurance
- A variety of leave arrangements

**Culture**

**Start Your Unstoppable Career**

**Applications close: 11:30pm Monday 21 October 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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