▷ [High Salary] TERN Surveillance Data Manager

Job no: 517507
Work type: Fixed term - Full-time
Campus: Adelaide
Categories: HEO6, Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

(HEO6) $92,511,785 - $99,929 per annum plus an employer contribution of 17% superannuation applies.

Fixed term, full-time position for 32 months

The TERN Australia Soil and Herbarium Collection is a dynamic national archive of soil, vegetation and ant samples. Located at The University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, this resource provides key ecosystem research infrastructure for scientists and decision-makers. The collection includes over 180,000 curated samples and specimens including: soil pit samples, soil subsite samples, soil metagenomic samples, plant voucher specimens, plant tissue samples, and more recently, ant samples.

Working under general direction the TERN Surveillance Data Manager coordinates the full data lifecycle, from field data ingestion through to validation, curation, and quality control ensuring data are standards-compliant, quality assured, and accessible. Also, you will be required to maintain internal data registers, respond to data and sample requests, assist with managing the collection management system and promotes best practice in ecological data workflows across the team. The TERN Surveillance Data Manager will oversee the TERN Surveillance Collections Assistants work program including various collection and facility management tasks and has a key role in supervising and training volunteers and students.

To be successful you will need:

- Demonstrated experience in ecological data management including data collection, QA/QC, data workflow

- Demonstrated capabilities in collecting, storing, organising and utilising data to ensure its accuracy, completeness, security and accessibility.

- Experience in vegetation sampling techniques, herbarium specimen collection, preparation, management and storage.

- Demonstrated experience with computer database software and portable digital data devices.

- GIS experience including the production of maps and providing high level spatial analysis.

- Demonstrated high-level verbal and written communication skills including the ability to prepare correspondence for internal and external audiences, and reports for TERN Surveillance Leadership Team.

- Demonstrated ability to promote the organisational values of integrity, respect, collegiality, excellence and discovery, and a commitment to positively comply with the associated behaviour expectations.

Qualification/s:

- A degree with subsequent relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training

The path to Adelaide University

We are on an exciting path to Adelaide University as we prepare to open our doors in January 2026. Adelaide University will combine the strengths of the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia, and we are dedicated to creating an accessible and future-focused educational powerhouse that fosters economic and social wellbeing through ground-breaking research and innovative teaching. You can learn more about Adelaide University HERE and more information will be providedthroughout the recruitment process.

Enjoy an outstanding career environment

We offer a uniquely rewarding workplace. The size, breadth and quality of our education and research programs - including significant industry, government and community collaborations - offers you vast scope and opportunity for a long, fulfilling career.

It also enables us to attract high-calibre people in all facets of our operations, ensuring you will be surrounded by talented colleagues, many world‑leading. Our work's cutting‑edge nature - not just in your own area, but across virtually the full spectrum of human endeavour - provides a constant source of inspiration.

Our culture is one that welcomes all and embraces diversity consistent with our Staff Values and Behaviour Framework and our Values of integrity, respect, collegiality, excellence and discovery. We firmly believe that our people are our most valuable asset, so we work to grow and diversify the skills, knowledge and capability of all our staff.

We embrace flexibility as a key principle to allow our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal and family life.

In addition, we offer a wide range of attractive staff benefits. These include: salary packaging; flexible work arrangements; high‑quality professional development programs and activities; and an on‑campus health clinic, gym and other fitness facilities.

The Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology is a multidisciplinary hub of cutting‑edge teaching and research. Many of its academic staff are world leaders in their fields and graduates are highly regarded by employers. The Faculty actively partners with innovative industries to solve problems of global significance.

If you have the talent, we'll give you the opportunity. Together, let's make history.

Click on the ‘Apply Now’ button to be taken through to the online application form. Please ensure you submit a cover letter, resume, and upload a document that includes your responses to all of the selection criteria for the position as contained in the position description or selection criteria document.

We reserve the right to close this advertisement before the closing date if a suitable candidate is identified.

For further information

For a confidential discussion regarding this position, contact:
Caleb Coish
TERN Ecosystem Surveillance and Business Manager
P: +61 (8) 8313 1142
E: caleb.coish@adelaide.edu.au

You’ll find a full position description and/or selection criteria below:

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We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. Female applicants, people with a disability and/or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who meet the requirements of this position are strongly encouraged to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application.

Advertised: 30 Oct 2025 12:00 AM
Applications close: 06 Nov 2025 11:55 PM

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