**Job no**: 569033
**Work type**: Full-time
**Location**: Geelong - Waurn Ponds
**Categories**: Administration, Finance
- Based at our Geelong, Waurn Ponds Campus + hybrid work arrangements
- Full-time and fixed term until January 2026
- HEW 5 $80,199 - $89,950 + 17% Superannuation
**Why work with us?**
At Deakin you will have access to benefits such as a variety of leave options including generous parental leave and the ability to purchase additional leave; flexible working arrangements to help manage your work-life balance; ongoing learning and development opportunities to grow your career; an inclusive and supportive culture and environment to work in, both online and on campus.
**As an Administration Officer, Fees, you will**:
- With a customer mindset, clarify expectations and respond promptly to stakeholder requests, queries, or complaints to ensure stakeholder needs are met to agreed standards and timelines. Provide basic advice to customers and make appropriate referrals to senior staff and/or other areas of the University
- Collect and analyse information and data from a variety of appropriate sources to solve work problems and present information in a clear, structured, concise and tailored way by focusing on key messages. Ensure information is understood and meets audience needs
- Understand local processes, prepare standard documents, manage records, regularly track progress of work tasks and identify key issues for appropriate escalation
- Engage in process improvement activities and adopt new ideas, approaches and changes to work practices. Show initiative, generate new ideas and shares those ideas with others in the work area to improve process and practice. Contribute feedback and suggestions and identify situations in which change is needed to improve policy and practice
- Use knowledge of continuous improvement principles to analyse current processes and practices and create practical, simple and accessible solutions to problems after considering multiple perspectives
**To be successful, you'll have**:
- Completion of a Degree without subsequent relevant work experience; or
- Completion of an Associate Diploma and at least two years subsequent relevant work experience; or
- An equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training
- Experience in administration and related activities in a large organisation with complex administrative structures, policies, and procedures.
- Experience in operating in a high-pressure diverse environment, involving face to face, phone, and written issue
**Here's how to apply**:
Please submit your updated resume and a short cover letter outlining your skills and experience.
For a copy of the position description, please see below:
PD - Fees, Scholarships and Financial Assitance Officer
**Applications for this position close on 17th March 2025.**
**Are You Ready?**
Deakin is a Victorian university with a global impact. We are an agile, dynamic, and innovative university committed to making a positive impact through our excellence in education, research and innovation and the contributions we make to the wider community.
We understand that our reputation has been built on the dedication and expertise of our staff and we offer a dynamic and diverse working environment with opportunities to grow and develop careers. We believe that a progressive, thriving culture will ensure that people choose to come, and stay at Deakin and contribute to our ongoing success.
**Advertised**: 03 Mar 2025 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 17 Mar 2025 AUS Eastern Daylight Time