Position Details

• Fixed Term until January 2027 | Full-Time
• Higher Education Officer Level 5 | $80,405 - $88,737 p.a.
• Location: Tonsley / Kaurna Country
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About the Role

Working under the Team Leader, Community Engagement and Growth, the Community Engagement and Growth Officer plays a key role in strengthening relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to foster a dynamic and vibrant community.

The Community Engagement and Growth Officer’s key responsibilities include supporting community-building activities, coordinating engagement initiatives, and identifying collaboration opportunities within the state's entrepreneurial ecosystem. The successful candidate will help connect students, staff, mentors, and external partners, to support a connected and thriving network that promotes innovation and entrepreneurial mindset.

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Support the coordination and delivery of community engagement initiatives by assisting in the planning and execution of events, workshops and activities.
• Build and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including students, mentors, staff, and partners, to foster collaboration and increase and progress engagement.
• Collaborate with the Team Leader and other senior staff to implement new initiatives, helping to ensure they align with broader team objectives, and supporting continuous innovation in community engagement and growth.
• Please note, some evening and weekend work may be required.

About You

As the successful Community Engagement and Growth Officer, you will bring a forward-thinking and growth-oriented mindset, with a focus on contributing to the development and success of the team.

You will bring strong communication and interpersonal skills, helping you build effective relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. While developing your leadership abilities, you’ll also demonstrate great organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities. Your capacity for independent judgment and handling competing demands will be essential in supporting the team.

To be successful in this role, you will also demonstrate:

• Experience in supporting outreach and engagement by creating and distributing materials that foster strong connections, including newsletters, community updates, and relationship-building activities.
• Proven ability to assist in the evaluation and improvement of engagement programs by gathering feedback, tracking participation and providing insights.
• Interest in creative and innovative thinking, with a curiosity about future trends and emerging industries (desirable).

About the New Venture Institute

Flinders New Venture Institute is Flinders University’s centre for innovation and entrepreneurship. We empower students to think in innovative ways, so they can do things they never thought possible.

Flinders New Venture Institute (Flinders NVI) is South Australia’s premier centre for innovation, developing, enabling and connecting a vibrant eco-system of innovative businesses, curious and passionate students, dedicated researchers, international academics, and committed government partners to create untold future opportunities.

Life at Flinders

We're transforming and investing in people and facilities to create contemporary, stimulating, and satisfying learning and work environments that reflect our core values of excellence, innovation, courage, and integrity. Flinders is refocusing its strategic priorities with the aim of elevating its performance to be a top ten Australian university, and amongst the top 1% in the world.

Reaching beyond the limits of buildings, borders, and backgrounds, ours is an inclusive culture that believes absolutely in equality and opportunity for all. We don't just accommodate differences; we embrace and celebrate them. So, why work at Flinders?

• 17% Superannuation + salary packaging options
• Flexible working arrangements
• Wide range of professional development activities and services
• We embrace diversity and promote equity and inclusion for all students and staff
• Vibrant campus life and amenities including on campus health care services, gym and childcare centre (Bedford Park, South Australia).

Prescribed Conditions for Employment

• A valid Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check which is satisfactory to the University will also be required before the successful applicant can commence in this position.

How to Apply and Information

• You are required to submit Suitability Statement of no more than 3 pages, addressing the Key Position Capabilities of the position description.
• For more information regarding this position, we strongly encourage you to contact Julia Miller.
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• Please see here for our Indigenous Workforce Strategy

Certification

Applications to be submitted before 10.00pm:

01 Dec 2024

At Flinders we embrace and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, ethnicities, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities.

Flinders. Fearless.