Executive Assistant (HEO 5)

University of South Australia
October 21, 2024
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  • Based in Allied Health & Human Performance at the City East campus

  • Full-time, fixed term contract until 1 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 minimal 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

    At the University of South Australia, we value workplace diversity and are committed to providing a supportive, inclusive, and respectful work environment for all people. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, women, members of the LGBTIQ+ community, people of culturally diverse backgrounds and people with disability.

    Start Your Unstoppable Career

    For a copy of the position description and to apply, please visit Working at UniSA. The online application form will list the specific selection criteria that you need to address.

    Please address your cover letter to Georgia Borg, Consultant: Recruitment Central. For further information about the position or the recruitment process, please contact UniSA Recruitment Central on +61 8 8302 1700 or via email at [email protected] using job reference number 6592.

    Applications close: 11:30pm Monday 21 October 2024

    We are committed to providing an equitable and barrier free recruitment process and encourage you to share any support, adjustments and/or access requirements you have by contacting our Recruitment Central team on [email protected]. Anything you tell us will be kept completely confidential.

    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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