Administrative Assistant

Position Details

• Fixed Term until 30 June 2027 | Part-time at 0.4FTE

• Higher Education Officer Level 4 | $76,140 - $82,119 p.a. (pro-rata)

• Location: Bedford Park / Kaurna Country

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About the Role

Join the Australian Corneal Graft Registry (ACGR) within Flinders University's College of Medicine and Public Health, where you'll play an important role in supporting a nationally significant research and data registry. Working as part of a small, collaborative team, you will contribute to the accurate processing, coding, management and quality assurance of clinical data, while providing administrative support that helps ensure the smooth day-to-day operation of the Registry. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys detailed administrative work, data accuracy, and working with healthcare and research stakeholders.

Key responsibilities include:

• Processing and managing incoming registry data, including reviewing submissions, identifying missing or inconsistent information, and liaising with contributors to resolve discrepancies.

• Accurately coding, entering, validating and maintaining data within registry databases, ensuring high standards of data quality and confidentiality.

• Supporting the preparation and distribution of reports and documentation for registry contributors and funding bodies.

• Providing general administrative and office support, including correspondence, record management, document scanning, filing, and mail distribution.

This position makes a significant contribution to the University’s strategic plan, Changing Lives, Every One Matters, by 2035 through being a strong example of the University’s value of Excellence. Through maintaining high standards of data accuracy, confidentiality and administrative support, the role helps ensure the ongoing success and credibility of the Australian Corneal Graft Registry.

About You

You are a highly organised and detail-oriented administrator who takes pride in producing accurate work and maintaining confidentiality. Comfortable working with data and established processes, you have strong problem-solving skills and enjoy working collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders to achieve shared outcomes. Your excellent communication skills and commitment to quality enable you to effectively manage competing priorities while contributing to a positive team environment.

To be successful in this position, you will bring:

• Experience in administrative support, data entry and database management, with a strong focus on accuracy and attention to detail.

• Demonstrated ability to identify inconsistencies, solve problems and apply guidelines and procedures to ensure high-quality outcomes.

• Well-developed organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks, manage deadlines and maintain confidentiality.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships and contribute positively within a collaborative team environment.

College of Medicine and Public Health        

 

At the College of Medicine and Public Health, we deliver clinical, population and lab-based research, integrated teaching programs and high-quality clinical services. Our footprint reaches out from our world class teaching hospital at the Flinders Medical Centre in South Australia to multiple rural clinical locations all the way to Darwin in the Northern Territory. Our research and teaching equip the next generation of leaders and innovators with the skill, commitment, and vision to protect vulnerable communities and truly advance health outcomes. It is at the heart of everything we do.

Life at Flinders

We're transforming and investing in people and facilities to create contemporary, stimulating, and satisfying learning and work environments that reflect our core values of excellence, innovation, courage, and integrity. Flinders is refocusing its strategic priorities with the aim of elevating its performance to be a top ten Australian university, and amongst the top 1% in the world.

Reaching beyond the limits of buildings, borders, and backgrounds, ours is an inclusive culture that believes absolutely in equality and opportunity for all. We don't just accommodate differences; we embrace and celebrate them. So, why work at Flinders?

• 17% Superannuation + salary packaging options

• Flexible working arrangements

• Awarded the AHEIA Higher Education Award for Workplace Culture Excellence due to our commitment to wellbeing through our Thriving@Flinders staff wellbeing program

• Wide range of professional development activities and services, including exclusive staff study offers 

• We embrace diversity and promote equity and inclusion for all students and staff, as shown through our three SAGE Cygnet Awards.

• Vibrant campus life and amenities including on campus health care services, gym and childcare centre (Bedford Park, South Australia).

• Recognised as a Veteran Employer of Choice

Our Commitment to Reconciliation and Indigenous Employment

Flinders University is proud to be an organisation that is committed to our Reconciliation Action Plan and Indigenous Workforce Strategy. Our vision is to be a preferred employer for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.  We are committed to progressing Indigenous advancement in education, research, employment, and wellbeing, and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for all Flinders vacancies.

• Please see here for our Reconciliation Action Plan 

• Please see here for our Indigenous Workforce Strategy 

Prescribed Conditions for Employment

• A current Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check which is satisfactory to the University will be required by Flinders University before the successful applicant can commence in this position. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify a candidate from consideration. Each case will be assessed on its individual merits and relevance to the inherent requirements of the role. 

How to Apply and Information

• You are required to submit a CV, along with a Suitability Statement as a separate document.  This should be no more than 3 pages, and address the Key Position Capabilities of the position description.

• Flinders University is committed to providing an environment where staff with disability are valued, supported and encouraged, and can, as far as practicably possible, participate fully and independently in the life of the University. If you require any reasonable adjustments to assist you in the selection process, including being accompanied by an accredited assistance animal with public access rights as per the Disability Policy, please contact the Recruitment Team so that we can make appropriate arrangements through [email protected] or call 08 8201 2383.

• For more information regarding this position, please contact Miriam Keane.

Certification

Applications to be submitted before 10.00pm:

30 Aug 2026

At Flinders we embrace and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, ethnicities, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities.

Flinders. Fearless.