Salary Rate: Casual HEW 4 ($50.35 per hour + 12% superannuation)
Employment type: Casual
Location: Warrnambool Campus
About the role:
This role provides operational and technical support within a state‑of‑the‑art Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS). The position contributes to research programs focused on sustainable fish production, novel feed development and emerging aquaculture technologies. While the position predominantly involves independent work, there are opportunities for meaningful collaboration within a supportive team; including, working collaboratively with academic staff, researchers and technical teams, to ensure high standards of animal welfare, facility operation, biosecurity and compliance are maintained.
This is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic individual with a passion for aquaculture and applied research to contribute to globally relevant outcomes in food security, sustainability and industry capacity building.
To be successful, you'll have:
- Role model professional and ethical behaviours in providing support in aquatic animal husbandry and technology, sanitisation, plant maintenance, water quality monitoring and other care related activities for animals.
- Take on opportunities to provide leadership where there is a void (informal), including working closely with the Manager Animal Services to ensure facility maintains all operations and continues to deliver all key performance indicators.
- Understand local processes, prepare standard documents, manage records, regularly track progress of work tasks and identify key issues, including daily monitoring to assess health, ecological conditions, social environment and ensure clean food, water and an enriched environment is provided, and documenting health and any other data as required.
Your key responsibilities will be to:
- 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 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
- 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. Coach, guide and support team members as needed to deliver against individual, team and University goals.
- Build productive relationships with a diverse range of existing stakeholders and actively seek to maintain positive relationships.
- Role model professional and ethical behaviours. Consult with available sources to gather relevant information and seek the expertise and advice of other people as appropriate.
Special Requirements:
- Regular work outside business hours is required (e.g., the work pattern includes hours outside business hours).
- Drivers Licence.
- Apply for and maintain a Working With Children Check (refer to Deakin’s Recruitment Procedure for further details).
Please submit your updated resume and a short cover letter outlining your skills and experience.
Applications for this position close on Friday, 19 June 2026.
About us:
The flexible learning options we provide our students and our diverse team of professionals and academic experts has enabled us to achieve a 5-star rating by the prestigious university ranking organisation Quacquarelli Symonds. For eight consecutive years, we've achieved the highest level of overall student satisfaction among Victorian universities.
We have a network of campuses, learning centres and research centres across Victoria and corporate offices in Melbourne, China, Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka. Our online Cloud campus provides more than 13,000 students with access to state-of-the-art digital tools and direct access to world-renowned academics.
As a Victorian university with a global impact, Deakin is translating its research into commercial outcomes that will help drive innovation for Australia’s economy.
