Project Officer

Summary

Full Time, 12 month contract

About the role

The Wardliparingga Aboriginal Health Equity Theme (AHE) at SAHMRI, located on the lands of the Kaurna people, is a leading national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led unit dedicated to wellbeing and achieving health equity among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia through quality and safe health and medical research.

Project Officer - Administration Team

The Project Officer will play an important role within the Wardliparingga Aboriginal Health Administration team, focusing on discrete theme-level projects that set up systematic approaches that support research operations of the Wardliparingga Aboriginal Health Equity Theme. This includes, reviewing and standardising administration documents and templates, coordinating the development of info graphics for the theme, central contact for distribution of media and communication, establishing a standard induction process, development of checklists, procurement, IT audits, occupational health and safety compliance. The Project Officer will take a lead role in implementing systems improvement initiatives to enhance and streamline day to day theme operations.

Reporting to the Research Manager, the position will also work closely with the Co-Theme Leaders, the Program and Project Leads within Wardliparingga. The Project Officer will liaise and collaborate with research and administrative staff and students within the Theme's programs, as well as staff from SAHMRI Corporate Services.

**About the role**:
Key responsibilities include:

- Develop effective and efficient administrative systems to support Theme activities
- Standardisation of Wardliparingga administration templates, such as briefing papers, agendas and minutes, research posters, PowerPoint templates
- Coordinate activities to ensure general WHS obligations of the Theme are met, including membership and attendance of SAHMRI WHS committees, distribution of relevant notices to Theme staff, and coordination of Theme fire warden and first aid officers where required;
- Membership and attendance of SAHMRI Business operations related committees and meetings where required;
- Develop an annual media and communications calendar for the Wardliparingga Aboriginal Health Equity Theme in consultation with the Co-Theme Leaders and research team and work closely with the SAHMRI Media and communications team to deliver associated activities throughout the year. This includes; social media posts, a quarterly newsletter and other communications activities.
- Develop a process for the induction and orientation of new staff to Wardliparingga and SAHMRI.

**About you**:

- Tertiary qualifications in office/business administration and/or media and communications are highly desirable
- Significant project management experience within a human research role
- Strong knowledge of Aboriginal culture and experience working within an Aboriginal-led team or
- Ability to successfully communicate and implement changes to administration procedures.
- Systems thinker with good attention to detail and able to identify opportunities for improvement and recommend effective solutions to identified gaps.
- Experienced in implementing and maintaining systems, processes and services to support business operations and projects.

Special Requirements
- Some out of hours work may be required.
- DCSI Employment Screening and Police Checks may be required.
- This position requires a pre-employment medical examination to determine suitability for the physical requirements of the role.
- Some travel interstate and intrastate, including to urban, regional, or remote parts of South Australia may be required.

As a not-for-profit organisation, SAHMRI employees can access salary packaging options up to $15,900 Ordinarily, your employer takes out income tax from your pay and deposits the remainder into your bank account. You then pay all your living expenses - including your rent or mortgage, car repayments, insurances, groceries and utility bills - and if you’re lucky, have a bit left over. But with salary packaging with us, you still get paid the same salary, but we help you pay those same expenses before tax is taken out This creates a huge savings for you - your taxable income could go down, your disposable income could go up, and with some of these expenses already taken care of, you could have more money for other essentials and surprises To play with a calculator to see how much you could save, check out more information on the Maxxia website.

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**Applications close: Wednesday December 4th, 2024**
- SAHMRI is a member of the Athena SWAN Science in Australia Gender Equity program. We have been awarded Bronze status for our commitment to advancing the careers of women, trans and gender diverse individuals in STEMM._

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