Internships Officer

(HEO6) $86,360 - $93,285 per annum plus an employer contribution of 17% superannuation applies.

Part time (0.6 FTE), fixed term contract available immediately until end December 2024.

The Internships Officer will coordinate and support internship programs and initiatives. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining effective working relationships with students, academics and hosts, understanding their needs, coordinating student recruitment processes from job scoping and advertising to shortlisting and enrolment and providing support to the Internships Team Leader. The Internships Officer contributes to a culture of continuous improvement and exceptional service delivery.

To be successful you will need:

1. Demonstrated experience in supporting internships or a structured student experience program, preferably in a higher education environment.
2. Demonstrated experience in engaging with stakeholders, working consultatively and developing and maintaining relationships, to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.
3. Demonstrated experience in a student environment and a commitment to exceptional customer service, with a focus on continuous improvement.
4. Demonstrated ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing, in a succinct, professional and responsive manner and develop key relationships with staff from diverse backgrounds
5. High level administrative and organisational skills, including experience with systems, ability to work effectively under pressure and deliver across competing priorities and deadlines

Enjoy an outstanding career environment

The University of Adelaide is a uniquely rewarding workplace. The size, breadth and quality of our education and research programs - including significant industry, government and community collaborations - offers you a vast scope and opportunity for a long, fulfilling career.

It also enables us to attract high-calibre people in all facets of our operations, ensuring you will be surrounded by talented colleagues, many world-leading. Our work's cutting-edge nature - not just in your own area, but across virtually the full spectrum of human endeavour - provides a constant source of inspiration.

Our culture is one that welcomes all and embraces diversity consistent with our Staff Values and Behaviour Framework and our Values of integrity, respect, collegiality, excellence and discovery. We firmly believe that our people are our most valuable asset, so we work to grow and diversify the skills, knowledge and capability of all our staff.

We embrace flexibility as a key principle to allow our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal and family life.

In addition, we offer a wide range of attractive staff benefits. These include: salary packaging; flexible work arrangements; high quality professional development programs and activities; and an on-campus health clinic, gym and other fitness facilities. 

Learn more at: adelaide.edu.au/jobs

Your division's broader role

The Division of Academic and Student Engagement drives the University's strategic activities in relation to learning and teaching. This includes ensuring all Adelaide students have a quality experience, and investing in our academic staff's professional development.

Learn more at: adelaide.edu.au/dase/division-leadership

If you have the talent, we'll give you the opportunity. Together, let's make history.

Click on the ‘Apply Now’ button to be taken through to the online application form. Please ensure you submit a resume, as well as a cover letter addressing your suitability and experience for the position, referring to the selection criteria, in no more than 2 pages.

Applications close 11:55pm, 2 June 2024.

The University reserves the right to close this advertisement before the closing date if a suitable candidate is identified.

For further information

For a confidential discussion regarding this position; contact:

Jessica Mills
Internships Team Leader,
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law & Economics (ABLE)
Division of Student & Academic Engagement (DASE)
08 8313 0***
**********@adelaide.edu.au

The University of Adelaide is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. Female applicants, people with a disability and/or and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who meet the requirements of this position are strongly encouraged to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application.

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