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Broaden your career within one of QLD’s largest employers.
Belong to a vibrant community where your work genuinely makes an impact.
Achieve a work-life balance with 36 hours/wk.
Based at Herston Campus.
About UQ
As part of the UQ community, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world.
Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world. By supporting the academic endeavour across teaching, research, and the student life, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to activities that have a lasting impact on our community.
Join a community where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued and a range of benefits and rewards are available, such as:
26 weeks paid parental leave or 14 weeks paid primary caregiver leave.
17% superannuation contributions
17.5% annual leave loading
Access to flexible working arrangements including hybrid working options, flexible start/finish times, purchased leave.
Health and wellness discounts – fitness passport access, free yearly flu vaccinations, discounted health insurance, and access to our Employee Assistance Program for staff and their immediate family
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About This Opportunity
We are seeking a motivated and organised Assistant Admissions Officer to provides a range of student administrative support services within the Faculty of Medicine Admissions team.
Reporting to the Senior Admissions Officer, the primary purpose of this position is to provide high quality customer service and administrative support with regard to matters relating to prospective students and applicants applying for the MD program within the Faculty of Medicine. This position will have responsibility for completing a diverse range of administrative processing tasks and associated day-to-day problem resolution and maintenance of administrative systems. The position is required to provide high quality customer service through the delivery of friendly, helpful, accurate, and informative advice and services to students, professional and academic staff.
Key responsibilities will include:
Provide high quality customer services to prospective and current applicants to the MD program.
Apply a sound general knowledge of student and academic administration and develop specific knowledge of the policies and procedures.
Receive and process standard applications, requests, and pre-requisite assessments utilising various information systems, assist with administration of the multiple mini-interviews.
This is a full-time (100%), fixed-term position through to 14th March 2025.
At HEW level 4, the full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $71,640 - $75,957, plus a generous super allowance of up to 17%. The total FTE package will be up to $83,818 - $88,870 annually. As these roles are covered by an Enterprise Agreement, you will also receive regular remuneration increases in line with the Enterprise Agreement.
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About You
Completion of a diploma level qualification, or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and education/training.
High level computing skills, preferably using Microsoft Office software.
Excellent interpersonal and written skills, a commitment to providing high level service.
Ability to work as part of a team and to organise work flow to meet competing demands and deadlines.
High level of attention to detail and accuracy in written work.
A strong orientation to the provision of a high level of customer service.
An empathy with and ability to communicate with students, including those from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Knowledge of University student computer systems and packages e.g. Microsoft Office, SI-net, Business Objects, and the use of CRM systems is desirable.
Other
Ability to work outside of standard working hours during periods of peak operational workloads.
Some travel between Herston and St Lucia campuses may be required.
In addition, the following mandatory requirements apply:
Work Rights: You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment.
Background Checks: All final applicants for this position may be asked to consent to a criminal record check. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically barred from applying for this position. Each application will be considered on its merits.
Questions?
For more information about this opportunity, please contact Mr Geoffrey Dun via *****@uq.edu.au.
For application queries or a full job description, please contact ******@uq.edu.au stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line.
Want to Apply?
All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:
Cover letter addressing the ‘About You’ section.
Resume
Other Information
At UQ we know that our greatest strengths come from our diverse mix of colleagues, this is reflected in our ongoing commitment to creating an environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion. We ensure that we are always attracting, retaining and promoting colleagues who are representative of the diversity in the broader community, whether that be gender identity, LGBTQIA+, cultural and/or linguistic, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, or people with a disability. Accessibility requirements and/or adjustments can be directed to ******@uq.edu.au
If you are a current employee (including casual staff and HDR scholars) or hold an unpaid/affiliate appointment, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board.
Applications close 15th April at 11.00pm AEST (Job Reference Number - R-37050). Please note that interviews have been tentatively scheduled for 24th April.
