Casual Human Research Ethics Administrator, Research Integrity

Employment Type: Casual

Salary Rate: Casual HEW 5 (48.51 per hour +10.5%superannuation)

Location: Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus or Melbourne Burwood Campus

The Role:

This successful candidate will provide casual administrative support to the Human Research Ethics and Integrity team, including accurate data entry and attention to detail to ensure the processing of applications is prioritised effectively. This role requires advanced written communication skills to compose appropriate responses to researchers’ correspondence and secretarial support for ethics committee meetings, computer literacy and confidence utilising Zoom, Outlook, Excel and Sharepoint, organization skills and ability to work within timelines.

To be successful, you will have:

• Experience in administration and related activities in a large organisation with complex administrative structures, policies, and procedures.
• • An equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training
• • Experience in operating in a high-pressure diverse environment, involving face to face, phone, and written communication
• • An understanding of human research ethics issues and regulations and of University administrative structures and processes.
• • Demonstrated ability to use and maintain databases.

 Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Provide high level administrative and secretarial support to DUHREC, including arranging and supporting meetings of DUHREC by preparing agendas, minutes and correspondence as required
• Build productive relationships with a diverse range of existing stakeholders and actively seek to maintain positive relationships
• Clarify expectations and respond promptly to client requests, queries, or complaints to ensure client needs are met to agreed standards and timelines
• Understand local processes, prepare standard documents, manage records, regularly track progress of work tasks related to Human Research Ethics
• Deliver effective and efficient outcomes and outputs against team and operational work plans • Provide advice to DUHREC and staff and students on the use of human participants in research in accordance with legislative requirements and University policy
• Present information in a clear, structured, concise and tailored way by focusing on key messages and check that messages are understood and meet audience needs
• Take personal responsibility and show initiative to meeting goals and objectives contributing to an inclusive team environment
• Recognise the importance of teamwork and of effective communication amongst team members and build rapport within immediate team in ways that are respectful and inclusive of others

Please submit your resume along with short cover letter. For further information regarding the role, please contact  Lisa Hurley,  Senior Adviser Human Research Ethics & Integrity via lisa.hurley@deakin.edu.au

Applications for this position close on  4 November 2022.

This role requires the incumbent to apply for and maintain an Employee Working With Children Check (refer to Deakin’s Recruitment Procedure for further details).

About us

Deakin is a Victorian university with a global impact. We are agile and innovative, and committed to making a positive impact through our excellence in education and research and the contributions we make to the wider community. Our reputation has been built on the dedication and expertise of our staff. We offer a dynamic, diverse and inclusive working environment with opportunities to grow and develop careers. We believe that a progressive, thriving culture will ensure people choose to come, and stay at Deakin and contribute to our ongoing success. As one of Australia’s largest universities, Deakin has strong global linkages, world-class research and an education portfolio that blends the best of campus and digital delivery into a highly supportive and personalised student experience. We offer outstanding education founded on the experience we create for our learners and guided by graduate outcomes for successful lives and careers. We undertake globally significant discovery research that benefits our communities through the innovative translation of our ideas into new services, products, policies and capabilities. At Deakin we value diversity, embrace difference and nurture an inclusive, safe and respectful community. Deakin is an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, a SAGE Athena SWAN Bronze Award holder, seeking gender equity for Women in STEMM, and a Silver Award holder in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ inclusion. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people of all cultures, abilities, sexualities and genders