• Full time, Fixed-term opportunity until 31st December 2025
• Exciting opportunity to help a newly formed team still within the project phase grow
• Base Salary $103,185 + 17% superannuation

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

The University of Sydney is looking for a Senior Casual Academic Administration Officer to join a newly established team. This role presents an exciting opportunity to be at the heart of casual academic administration, ensuring seamless coordination, compliance, and efficiency in work allocation processes. You will oversee daily administrative activities, support Casual Academic staff, maintain accurate documentation, and support in continuous improvement initiatives. Additionally, you’ll play a key role in onboarding and training new team members, engaging with stakeholders, and managing timesheet processes. If you thrive in a dynamic environment, enjoy problem-solving, and are passionate about optimizing operations, this role offers a rewarding and impactful career path within the University.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• manage daily administrative activities, supporting casual academic staff, tracking work allocations, and ensuring efficiency in processes.
• triaging and tracking technical issues raised by Casual Academic Administrative Officers
• preparing onboarding and training material for new Casual Academic Administrative Officers, including the existing and ongoing uplift
• support compliance with university policies, and process improvement initiatives
• respond to enquiries, liaising with faculty staff, and fostering professional relationships
• maintain accuracy in work allocation databases, and processing updates.

• manage daily administrative activities, supporting casual academic staff, tracking work allocations, and ensuring efficiency in processes.
• triaging and tracking technical issues raised by Casual Academic Administrative Officers
• preparing onboarding and training material for new Casual Academic Administrative Officers, including the existing and ongoing uplift
• support compliance with university policies, and process improvement initiatives
• respond to enquiries, liaising with faculty staff, and fostering professional relationships
• maintain accuracy in work allocation databases, and processing updates