Job Description & Skills/Qualifications Required
The Opportunity
The Digital Integration Specialist – HR leads the digital transformation of USP’s HR systems within the Shared Services enterprise model. Embedded within the HR function and reporting functionally to the Head of Digital Business Solutions and the Director ITS, the role partners closely with the HR Department to digitise HR functions and processes, modernise HR services, and ensure HR systems fully integrate with enterprise platforms including Student Services and Finance.
The Digital Integration Specialist – HR operates within a complex, multi-campus, multi-country university environment, where digital systems play a critical role in enabling efficient and modern HR service delivery. USP’s staffing, data, and HR processes span 12 member countries, each with different operational realities, connectivity constraints, and regulatory environments. As a result, the position must ensure HR systems are built and maintained in ways that support consistency, compliance, and high reliability across all campuses.
The role functions as a specialized digital partner to the Human Resources Department, supporting HR in modernizing its functions, enhancing user experience, and embedding digital ways of working. Operating through the Head of Digital Business Solutions and reporting to the Director ITS, the position sits at the intersection of technology, HR operations, institutional policy, and strategic transformation.
The position supports HR’s shift toward evidence-based workforce management, requiring strong data governance, accurate workforce analytics, and reliable system integrations. This includes ensuring HRIS platforms connect seamlessly with other enterprise systems—Student Services, Finance, Payroll, Planning, and Campus Operations—to enable integrated processes such as hiring, onboarding, contract management, payroll accuracy, workload reporting, budgeting, and staff mobility.
The role also operates within USP’s broader Enterprise Digital Services framework, which emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, standardization, and shared accountability for digital platforms. As USP modernizes its digital ecosystem through automation, process redesign, analytics, and improved system governance, the Digital Integration Specialist – HRIS plays a critical role in aligning HR systems with these institutional goals.
Specific Duties
Specific duties may include:
- Rapid changes in HR technology and user expectations;
- Increasing security and data privacy obligations related to staff information;
- Ongoing digital transformation initiatives across the University;
- High demand for reliable, timely workforce data for strategic decision-making;
- Need for user capability building across HR and non-HR stakeholders;
- Requires coordination with vendors, auditors, ITS analysts, HR business partners, and campus; administrators, ensuring changes are well-governed, well-communicated, and successfully adopted across the institution.
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The Person we Seek
To be considered for this position, applicants must have:
- A degree and a postgraduate qualification from a relevant discipline; and
- 5 years of relevant experience and proven management expertise;
- Strong experience in workflow automation, HR data, and system integration;
- In-depth knowledge of the HR systems and platforms such as Banner HR, Oracle HCM, SAP HR, or similar HR systems;
- Should have considerable expertise in database management, reports building and system enhancements;
- Experience in SQL, Programming, and project management.
Desirable
- Preference will be given to applicants with work experience in a higher education setting, with demonstrable achievements in HR enhancements
Enquiries and further information: myhr@usp.ac.fj
The position is available for a term of three years and may be renewed by mutual agreement.
Salary Range
- FJD 81,690.16 to FJD 100,073.95 per annum.
Closing Date
The closing date for applications is: 16 August 2026.
How to Apply
Click the Apply button to apply for this position online.
The advertisement criteria is available on our University website (www.usp.ac.fj) under Employment Opportunities.
Please include the following documents in your application: Academic Credentials/Transcripts, Cover letter clearly addressing key Selection Criteria and Resume with names of three referees, one of which must be your current or most recent direct work supervisor. Referees will only be contacted if you are selected.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
The University of the South Pacific is committed to providing a safe, inclusive and equitable environment that protects the rights of children; nurture, promote and facilitate mutual respect, constructive empowerment and progress amongst its employees, students, stakeholders including visitors, without being hampered by any form of sexual harassment, sexual abuse or sexual exploitation. We reserve the right to conduct police checks and other screening procedures to ensure a safe environment.
USP is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities to work in an inclusive environment. USP encourages all qualified candidates to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, sexual orientation or disabilities.
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The University of the South Pacific (USP) is the premier provider of tertiary education in the Pacific region and an international centre of excellence for teaching, consulting and training on all aspects of Pacific culture, environment and human resource development