Address- UQ Research Office
- Support the Vice Chancellor’s Health Research Accelerator (HERA) initiative
- Enhance UQ’s research performance and profile by working with Faculties, research teams and researchers
- Be part of an organisation with a meaningful purpose and impact
- Work at our vibrant and conveniently located St Lucia 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, and a condensed fortnight
- 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
- On campus childcare options
- Cheap parking (from just $5 a day)
- Salary packaging options
About This Opportunity
The Project Coordinator is responsible for managing end-to-end projects of varying size, scale and complexity to ensure the successful delivery of project-specific strategic and operational outcomes.
You will support the implementation of The University of Queensland, Vice Chancellor’s strategic Health Research Accelerator (HERA) initiative. You will be responsible for undertaking project administration tasks and workflows in a timely manner as well as ensuring researchers meet financial and progress reporting requirements for their strategic funding.
Some key responsibilities include:
- Deliver efficient research administration to the HERA initiative by effectively managing project administration tasks and workflows and resolving issues in a timely manner.
- Contribute to the HERA initiative implementation and operations and undertake problem-solving to propose and implement agreed solutions.
- Develop skills and expertise in research funding management to analyse and interpret complex rules and regulations and provide authoritative advice.
- Develop effective working relationships with staff in academic divisions, internal and external stakeholders, colleagues and management to support the professional curation and proactive management of HERA programs and partnerships.
- Effectively manage the post-award end-to-end workflows through identifying and resolving issues in a timely manner.
- Actively participate in continuous improvement activities, including data analysis, to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of policies, processes and system.
This is a full-time, fixed-term role through to July 2025.
At HEW level 6, the full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $88,099 - $94,512 plus a generous super allowance of 17%. The total FTE package will be up to $103,076 - $110,579 annually.
About You
- Relevant qualifications and/or work experience in administration/program/project management.
- Previous experience in research grant support would be highly valued.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to negotiate, exercise diplomacy and liaise effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience in interpreting and applying complex policies and procedures.
- Demonstrated experience in delivery of quality, professional, customer focused services to clients in an environment with tight deadlines.
- Well-developed problem-solving skills plus a high degree of initiative, with proven ability to instigate and undertake tasks with minimum supervision or direction.
- Demonstrated data interpretation and analytical skills, problem-solving skills and the ability to identify and recommend solutions to challenging issues.
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.
Questions?
For more information about this opportunity, please contact Dr Madonna Devaney (Associate Director, Major Initiatives) at *********@uq.edu.au.
For application queries, 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
Please note that you will be asked to add all documents into the one upload box labelled ‘resume’, which is step one of the application form.
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 our 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 Sunday 23 June at 11.00pm AEST (Job Reference Number - R-39963).
