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Technical Officer (HEO 4)

Employer
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Location
Adelaide, Australia
Salary
$72,943 (plus 17% superannuation)
Closing date
2 Feb 2025
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  • Based in the Clinical and Health Sciences Unit at the City West Campus
  • Full-time, continuing position
  • Commencement salary: $72,943 (plus 17% superannuation)

About You 

You are a proactive and detail-oriented Technical Officer with excellent interpersonal skills. You excel in guiding and supporting diverse stakeholders while maintaining high safety standards in a laboratory setting. Solutions-focused and adaptable, you excel at prioritising tasks to ensure smooth and efficient operations.

About the Role 

Reporting to the Manager: Technical Services, you will provide technical and administrative support for the UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences multidisciplinary teaching and research laboratories. This includes maintaining equipment, coordinating training, and ensuring a safe, compliant, and efficient laboratory environment.

About the Clinical and Health Sciences Unit

One of seven Academic Units, UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences offers a wide range of degrees and conducts world-class research in the fields of nursing, midwifery, pharmacy, pharmaceutical science, medical sciences, laboratory medicine, and food and nutrition science with a strong focus on creating positive health outcomes for communities.

Students learn from industry professionals and their experience extends beyond the classroom, with access to purpose-built facilities, including a wide range of laboratories and simulated hospital and health services environments located on campus. Students also get hands-on experience by completing fieldwork and clinical placement throughout their studies. 

About UniSA

The University of South Australia is Australia’s University of Enterprise. Our culture of innovation is anchored around global and national links to academic, research and industry partners. Our graduates are the new urban professionals, global citizens at ease with the world and ready to create and respond to change. Our research is inventive and adventurous and we create new knowledge that is central to global economic and social prosperity.

Essential Skills and Experience 

  • Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or extensive experience in managing research and teaching laboratories
  • Expertise in biosciences, diagnostic labs, chemistry, pharmacy, or pharmaceutical science
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with diverse stakeholders
  • Strong organisational skills with proven initiative and enthusiasm for delivering quality customer service
  • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a team

Benefits 

Getting a great job working with the best is just the start. UniSA rewards its staff with a wide variety of benefits such as: 

  • Access to great personal development opportunities  
  • Generous superannuation contributions of 17%  
  • Employee assistance and development programs  
  • Staff study support  
  • A variety of leave arrangements 

Culture  

At the University of South Australia, we value workplace diversity and are committed to providing a supportive, inclusive, and respectful work environment for all people. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, women, members of the LGBTIQ+ community, people of culturally diverse backgrounds and people with disability.  

Start Your Unstoppable Career!

For a copy of the position description and to apply, please visit Working at UniSA. The online application form will list the specific selection criteria that you need to address.   

Please address your cover letter to Georgia Borg, Consultant: Recruitment Central. For further information about the position or the recruitment process, please contact UniSA Recruitment Central on +61 8 8302 1700 or via email at recruitment@unisa.edu.au using job reference number 6933. 

Applications close: 11:30pm Sunday 2 February 2025

We are committed to providing an equitable and barrier free recruitment process and encourage you to share any support, adjustments and/or access requirements you have by contacting our Recruitment Central team on recruitment@unisa.edu.au. Anything you tell us will be kept completely confidential. 

Applications welcomed from Australian or NZ citizens, Australian permanent residents and those who have the legal right to work in Australia for the term of appointment. 

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How to apply:

Applications must be lodged online, please note UniSA does not accept applications via email.

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UniSA is committed to developing a diverse workforce and a constructive enterprising culture in which everyone can thrive.

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