School Administrator

**Classification**:ANU Officer Grade 5 (Administration)
**Salary package**:$74,782 to $81,579 per annum plus 17% superannuation
**Term**: Full time, Continuing

The School Administrator provides general administrative support, contributing to the efficient coordination of the day-to-day operations of the School through liaising with staff, students and service areas; and providing advice and assistance on a wide range of general and student administration, financial and human resources matters. This School Administrator will provide strong event management and stakeholder engagement.
- Collaborative work environment
- First point of contact for the School
- Provide operational support for functions/events/visitor experience

**College overview**

The Australian National University (ANU) College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) is a vibrant and diverse community of more than three thousand students, staff, and visitors. Our College is comprised of three schools: the School of Computing, School of Cybernetics, and School of Engineering, supported by the Professional Services Group. We aim to bring together expertise in social, technical, ecological and scientific systems to build a new approach. In the College, we draw on our disciplinary foundations to find and solve problems of global importance. Our people build on our traditional world-class expertise and take it in creative, unconventional directions. Through the Reimagine investment, we have the privilege and the responsibility to build a new legacy for the University, the country, and even the world. We will deliver on our mission by building a strong community, providing transformative educational experiences, conducting high-impact research, seeking meaningful engagement, and becoming a resilient organisation post COVID-19. Join us in shaping a new intellectual agenda to reimagine engineering, computing, and the use of technology in the world.

The School of Cybernetics is the first new school established at the ANU in the 21st Century. The School will build on the foundational work of the Autonomy, Agency and Assurance Innovation Institute (3Ai), and also develop capacity in systems and design. Cybernetics is at the heart of the work of the school as a tool that sparks new ways of thinking and possibilities for the future. We focus on systems as a unit of analysis and driver of action for industries working with complexity and we are generating new approaches to shape the future through and with technology. The school creates programs that blend education, research and engagement, giving staff the opportunity to create new ways of working, to imagine something different, built on a diverse, inclusive culture.

**Position overview**

This position is a continuing appointment to provide general administrative support across the four activity clusters in the School - the 3Ai, Strategy, Systems and Design. The position will facilitate an equipped, supported, efficient, productive, happy and safe environment for everyone in the school and our valued partners.

The ANU provides attractive benefits and excellent support to maintain a healthy work/life balance and offers generous remuneration benefits, including four weeks paid vacation per year, assistance with relocation expenses and 17% employer contribution to superannuation. This also includes generous parental leave, the possibility of flexible and part time working arrangements, a parental and aged care support program, dual career hire programs, ANU school holiday programs, and childcare facilities on campus.

**Application information**
- A max 2-page statement addressing the selection criteria.

The ANU conducts background checks on potential employees, and employment in this position is conditional on satisfactory results in accordance with the Background Checking Procedure, which sets out the types of checks required by each type of position.