"Administrative Officer"

Job Description:

At UNSW, we pride ourselves on being a workplace where the best people come to do their best work.

Ranked among the top 50 universities globally, we attract the highest potential students from Australia and around the world. Our researchers tackle the biggest economic, business, and social challenges with partners around the world.

Position Summary

An Administrative Officer provides effective day-to-day administrative support by coordinating and managing the general administration to ensure services meet the operating needs of the area they support.

This role will:

• Provide high level administrative support including inbox management and diary management.
• Provide highly specialised advice relating to administrative processes.
• Monitor the volume of administrative tasks and prioritise tasks among other administrators to ensure a high level of administrative support is maintained. Ensure the Department/School consistently applies relevant policies, guidelines and procedures.
• Review and monitor administration requests such as purchasing, travel, credit card reconciliation, expense reimbursements, payment requests and billing processes.
• Cooperate with all health and safety policies and procedures of the university and take all reasonable care to ensure that your actions or omissions do not impact on the health and safety of yourself or others.

A person engaged is generally expected to have the following skills and experience:

• We are seeking an experienced candidate with 1-2 years of proven experience in a similar role.
• Relevant qualification with significant administrative work experience.
• Excellent attention to detail and organisation skills.
• Advanced level of skills in Microsoft Office software and other applications/databases.

Additional Pre-employment checks required for this position:

• Nil

This position is available immediately, with a contract end date of December 17, 2025.

The University reserves the right not to proceed with any appointment.

If you require any further information regarding the role, please contact Timothy Ly via timothy.ly@unsw.edu.au.

To submit an application for the role, please do so via the 'Apply Now' button. Please note, no applications will be accepted via email.

Posted:

22/10/2025