(HEO6) $89,383 - $96,550 per annum plus an employer contribution of 17% superannuation applies.

0.4FTE (14.70 hours per week) part time fixed term position, available until 26/12/2025.

An exciting opportunity has opened up to join our Internships Team for the remainder of 2025. If you are passionate about building relationships with students, academics and host employers, we want to hear from you.

The Division of Academic and Student Engagement (DASE) partners with students, staff and the broader community to deliver an outstanding student experience. At the heart of the student experience are transformational opportunities in learning and teaching.

The Student Experience branch is responsible for providing services that deliver an excellent student experience. This includes administrative and support services to students as well as service to, and partnership with, academic staff in the development of a high-quality, engaging and relevant learning environment.

Employability, Careers and Student Academic Skills deliver initiatives that enable students to succeed in their academic studies and beyond. This includes curriculum embedded employability and co- and extra-curricular employability, work-integrated-learning and internships, support for graduate employment, career guidance and student academic skills initiatives.

The Internships Officer will coordinate and support the internship programs and initiatives. Working in a collaborative and proactive team, responsibilities include developing and maintaining effective working relationships with students, academics and hosts, understanding their needs, coordinating student recruitment processes from job scoping and advertising to shortlisting and enrolment and providing support to the Internships Team Leader. The Internships Officer contributes to a culture of continuous improvement and exceptional service delivery.

To be successful you will need:

• Demonstrated experience in supporting internships or a structured student experience program, preferably in a higher education environment.
• Demonstrated experience in engaging with stakeholders, working consultatively and developing and maintaining relationships, to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience working effectively in a team environment to meet and exceed performance expectations.
• Demonstrated experience in a student environment and a commitment to exceptional customer service, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing, in a succinct, professional and responsive manner and develop key relationships with staff from diverse backgrounds.
• High level administrative and organisational skills, including experience with systems, ability to work effectively under pressure and deliver across competing priorities and deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to promote the organisational values of integrity, respect, collegiality, excellence and discovery, and a commitment to positively comply with the associated behaviour expectations.

Enjoy an outstanding career environment

The University of Adelaide is a uniquely rewarding workplace. The size, breadth and quality of our education and research programs - including significant industry, government and community collaborations - offers you a vast scope and opportunity for a long, fulfilling career.

It also enables us to attract high-calibre people in all facets of our operations, ensuring you will be surrounded by talented colleagues, many world-leading. Our work's cutting-edge nature - not just in your own area, but across virtually the full spectrum of human endeavour - provides a constant source of inspiration.

Our culture is one that welcomes all and embraces diversity consistent with our Staff Values and Behaviour Framework and our Values of integrity, respect, collegiality, excellence and discovery. We firmly believe that our people are our most valuable asset, so we work to grow and diversify the skills, knowledge and capability of all our staff.

We embrace flexibility as a key principle to allow our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal and family life.

In addition, we offer a wide range of attractive staff benefits. These include: salary packaging; flexible work arrangements; high quality professional development programs and activities; and an on-campus health clinic, gym and other fitness facilities. 

Learn more at: adelaide.edu.au/jobs

The path to Adelaide University

We are on an exciting path to Adelaide University as we prepare to open our doors in January 2026. Adelaide University will combine the strengths of the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia, and we are dedicated to creating an accessible and future-focused educational powerhouse that fosters economic and social wellbeing through ground-breaking research and innovative teaching. You can learn more about Adelaide University HERE and more information will be provided throughout the recruitment process.

Your division's broader role

The Division of Academic and Student Engagement drives the University's strategic activities in relation to learning and teaching. This includes ensuring all Adelaide students have a quality experience and investing in our academic staff's professional development.

Learn more at: adelaide.edu.au/dase/division-leadership

If you have the talent, we'll give you the opportunity. Together, let's make history.

Click on the ‘Apply Now’ button to be taken through to the online application form. Please ensure you submit a resume, as well as a cover letter addressing your suitability and experience for the position, referring to the selection criteria as outlined in the position description, in no more than 2 pages.

Applications close 11:55pm, 6 June 2025.

The University reserves the right to close this advertisement before the closing date if a suitable candidate is identified.

For further information

For a confidential discussion regarding this position, contact:

Jess Mills
Internships Team Leader
E:  jess.mills@adelaide.edu.au

You'll find a full position description below.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. Female applicants, people with a disability and/or and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who meet the requirements of this position are strongly encouraged to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application.