College Support Officer

Position Details 

• Continuing | Full Time

• Professional HEO5 | $82,657 - $91,222 p.a.

• Location: Bedford Park / Kaurna Country 

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About the Opportunity

As a member of a dynamic pooled support team, the College Support Officer, will play a key role in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of the College. This position will provide high-level administrative support across a variety of functions.

These duties will include executive assistance to senior College leaders', administration tasks such as mail distribution, purchasing & maintaining supplies, organising meetings, preparing agendas and taking minutes, email, calendar management, events management, committee support, organisational and operational support tasks. The incumbent will also contribute to a range of organisational, project, and operational activities, helping to deliver effective outcomes on behalf of the College and its leadership team.

This role is a terrific opportunity to gain exposure to the University environment and will see the College Support Officer liaising with a variety of stakeholders, both internal and external.

About You 

To be successful, you will have a relevant qualification, or equivalent combination of experience and/or education and/or training. With your well-developed organisational skills and ability to independently prioritise tasks and work to deadlines, along with taking the initiative in problem solving, you will also demonstrate:

• Experience in supporting committees or working groups including preparation of agendas, minutes, action lists and other documents.

• Previous experience in providing administrative services encompasses executive assistance, including an ability to use judgement, initiative, and confidentiality to support the activities of Senior Management including provision of project support.

• Well‐developed written communication skills with capacity to prepare correspondence, agendas, minutes, briefs, and other documents and respond to enquiries confidentially and autonomously.

• Commitment to high quality outcomes, including an attention to detail, the ability to research and collate information from a wide range of sources, and an ability to relate tasks to the wider context.

Please view the attached position description, for a comprehensive list of the roles and responsibilities.

College of Nursing and Health Sciences 

At the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, we aim to be an innovator in contemporary education producing a safer and more resilient health and social care workforce. Our mission is to improve lives and empower communities, enabling better health and caring in the world through an exceptional student learning experience. At the College, our research mission is about co-creating new knowledge which promotes wellbeing, and better care and support, to individuals and communities across the lifespan. We work proactively with industry partners and professional bodies leading to more employable and innovative graduates. 

Life at Flinders

We're transforming and investing in people and facilities to create contemporary, stimulating, and satisfying learning and work environments that reflect our core values of excellence, innovation, courage, and integrity. Flinders is refocusing its strategic priorities with the aim of elevating its performance to be a top ten Australian university, and amongst the top 1% in the world.

Reaching beyond the limits of buildings, borders, and backgrounds, ours is an inclusive culture that believes absolutely in equality and opportunity for all. We don't just accommodate differences; we embrace and celebrate them. So, why work at Flinders?

• 17% Superannuation + salary packaging options

• Flexible working arrangements

• Our commitment to wellbeing through our initiative

• Wide range of professional development activities and services, including exclusive staff study offers 

• We embrace diversity and promote equity and inclusion for all students and staff, as shown through our three SAGE Cygnet Awards.

• Vibrant campus life and amenities including on campus health care services, gym and childcare centre (Bedford Park, South Australia).

Our Commitment to Reconciliation and Indigenous Employment 

Flinders University is proud to be an organisation that is committed to our Reconciliation Action Plan and Indigenous Workforce Strategy. Our vision is to be a preferred employer for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.  We are committed to progressing Indigenous advancement in education, research, employment, and wellbeing, and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for all Flinders vacancies. 

• Please see here for our Reconciliation Action Plan  

• Please see here for our Indigenous Workforce Strategy  

Prescribed Conditions for Employment

• A valid National Police Certificate which is satisfactory to the University will also be required before the successful applicant can commence in this position.   

How to Apply and Information 

• You are required to submit your CV and a Suitability Statement of no more than 3 pages, addressing the Key Position Capabilities of the Position Description 

• For more information regarding this position, please contact Meredith Legg

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At Flinders we embrace and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, ethnicities, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities.

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