Position Details

• Fixed Term until January 2027 | Part-Time at 0.5FTE
• Higher Education Officer Level 4 | $72,366 - $78,049 pro-rata
• Location: Tonsley / Kaurna Country
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About the Role

Under the guidance of the Team Leader, Community Engagement and Growth, the Events Support Assistant will be responsible for supporting the coordination and delivery of internal and external events for the Curriculum Impact Portfolio.

The Events Support Assistant will support the engagement activities across conception and planning to pre-production and delivery, supporting the successful execution of events. The position will also require technical ability in supporting audio-visual and other event-related technology needs.

As the successful Events Support Assistant, you will:

• Source quotes and liaise with caterers, suppliers, and equipment providers.
• Source and book venues and ensure internal Flinders University event policies are adhered to.
• Support University social media channels by posting live at events as required and encouraging participation with event audiences.
• Provide general support in the development of event plans and supporting documentation, such as run sheets, guest lists, invitations and speech notes/scripts.
• Contribute to a positive, inclusive, and innovative team culture.

About You

Your strong interpersonal and communication skills will be key to your success as you build and maintain positive relationships with staff, students, and external partners. You will deliver excellent customer service and be approachable, helping to ensure that events run smoothly. Additionally, you will help foster a friendly and inclusive team culture through positive professional interactions.

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

• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with experience in contributing to reports, presenting information, and engaging with stakeholders.
• Experience in supporting events with a specific focus on service delivery for multiple clients, and how to achieve required objectives in line with scope of event outcomes.

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.
• Please see here for our Reconciliation Action Plan
• 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.