Senior Animal Technician

(HEO4) $69,043 to $75,677 per annum plus an employer contribution of 17% superannuation applies.

Full Time | Continuing Position

The Laboratory Animal Services (LAS) is seeking to appoint a full-time experienced Senior Animal Technician to join the team at the North Terrace Campus.

The Senior Animal Technician will support the Team Leader directly and the team in delivering research support through best practice animal care. They will act as a mentor as they guide and knowledge share with less experienced Animal Technicians and promote animal welfare with respect to animal production, care and research. This role will provide the successful candidate a variety of responsibilities, ranging from routine animal husbandry, managing rodent breeding colonies through to providing technical skills training to staff and researchers.

Our ideal candidate is an enthusiastic and motivated individual with a passion for animal care, committed to progressing their career in the laboratory animal field and with established skills and experience in a biomedical research facility setting.

To be successful you will need:

• Demonstrated understanding of the Australian code of practice for the care and use of animals for scientific purposes.
• Demonstrated commitment to animal care.
• Demonstrated experience in, and knowledge of, biomedical research animal husbandry.
• Demonstrated ability to promote the organisational values of integrity, respect, collegiality, excellence and discovery, and a commitment to positively comply with the associated behaviour expectations. 

Desirable

• Completion of the Diploma of Animal Technology or equivalent; or
• An equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.

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 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; 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 faculty's broader role

The Division of Research and Innovation leads the University's research strategic planning. It manages research, partnerships, prioritises investment in strategic initiatives, and responds to changes in the external environment. 

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

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Please ensure you submit a cover letter, resume, and upload a document that includes your responses to all of the selection criteria for the position as contained in the position description or selection criteria document.

Applications close 11:55pm, 2 April 2024. 

For further information

For a confidential discussion regarding this position, contact:

Tiffany Boehm
Manager | Laboratory Animal Services
P: +61 (8) 8313 1746
E: *************@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.