Lead Administrator - Health Sciences

at  University of Otago

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE/KĀ PŪKEKA ME KĀ WHEAKO

The successful candidate will have:

• Supervisory experience or exposure to leading or managing teams.
• Experience in a busy and/or complex administration environment.
• The ability to be calm, adaptable and flexible in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to deal with challenging people.
• A positive team approach that is solutions focused.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills.
• Experience in a tertiary education institution would be advantageous.

• Do you thrive on empowering and equipping a team to achieve great things?
• Are you an experienced administrator who is wanting to use your skills to provide excellent operational and strategic support to academic departments and leaders?
• Are you proactive, enthusiastic and a great team player?
  Then we have the role for you!
  You would join, and have the support of, a great team of Lead Administrators, and together you would lead a team of administrators and support academic leaders (Deans, Heads of Departments/sections, Associate Deans, Directors) to achieve teaching, research and service commitments of the School.

The role will require you to:

• Effectively lead, train, equip and support your team of administrators to fulfil their roles.
• Support your academic leaders with operational and strategic support.
• Build and maintain excellent working relationships with your team, academic leaders, departmental staff and students, and your Lead Administrator team.
• Develop a working knowledge of the administrative tasks within the School, and systems and processes in the University of Otago/ Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka.
• Effectively contribute to an operational and administrative leadership team involved in strategic initiatives, process improvement and projects.
• Lead change.