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Work
Experience

2008 - Present

Department Administrator at FACULTY OF SCIENCE, Uni. Split

  • Administrative and advisable support to doctoral students  

  • Managing doctoral student life cycle from registration/admission to graduation/leaving

  • Working with academic boards, governing bodies and task groups

  • Coordinating and creating schedule for doctoral, graduate and undergraduate studies

  • Draft and interpret doctoral study regulations

  • Maintain high levels of quality assurance, including course evaluation and course approval procedures

  • Use information systems and prepare reports and statistics for internal and external use

  • Manage budgets and ensure financial systems are followed

  • Participation in preparation and implementation of projects 

  • Purchase goods and equipment, and process invoices

  • Organize and facilitate a variety of educational or social activities, summer schools and conferences

  • Communicate with partner institutions, other institutions, external agencies, government

From 2009 to 2010 worked also as project Assistant in the Technology Transfer Office responsible for initiating and supporting collaboration between Academia and Industry

  • Co organized Croatian-German Business meeting  for setting up collaboration between Academia and Industry

  • Co organized brokerage events, client-client meetings

  • Innovation activities, patents granted and technology offers

2007 - 2008

Project Assistant at NGO for Nature, Environment and Sustainable Development

Worked on projects:

  • "Strengthening the Civil Society Sector for Marine Protection in Croatia", CARDS

  • "Civil Society Organization Engagement with Ecological Economics", FP7

Volunteered on several Nature Protection and Sustainable Development Projects from 2004 to 2007 

2006 - 2007

Administration Manager at CENTRE FOR EDUCATION

  • Managed communication between participants and teachers

  • Provided administrative support to a team of lecturers or teachers

  • Created schedule 

  • Received application and enrolled participants in courses

  • Charged and issued invoices 

Education

2008 - 2016

Applied Marine Sciences | Doctoral Degree

Doctoral Degree at Inter-University Doctoral Program, Uni. Split and Uni. Dubrovnik in the field of Interdisciplinary Natural Sciences with focus on Sustainable Marine Management and Decision Support Systems.

Doctoral Thesis title "Decision Support to Sustainable Management of Bottom Trawl Fleet"

Publications:

1. Bitunjac, I., Jajac, N., Katavić, I. (2016). Decision support to sustainable management of bottom trawl fleet, Sustainability, 8(3), 204; doi:10.3390/su8030204.

2. Milošević Pujo, B., Bitunjac, I. (2011). Croatian fishing fleets on the verge of admission to the European Union, Naše more, 58, (3-4), 140-147.

3. D. Juretić, F. Separovic, I. Bitunjac, J. Simunić (editorial board). Book of abstracts AMP2010, Australia-Croatia workshop on antimicrobial peptides and summer school in biophysics PhD programme. Faculty of Science, Uni. Split (2010). ISBN 9789537155155.

1999-2006

Marine Biology and Ecology | Master's Degree

Master's Degree in Marine Biology and Ecology with focus on Marine Biology, Ecology, Microbiology, Environmental Impact Studies.

During the Masters education I participated in 2 IAESTE students internships.  

The research done at the Institute for Material Research and Testing in Berlin was accepted by the Faculty Committee and published as my Diploma Thesis "A method for the Evaluation of Biocidal Compounds in Aqueous-Based Functional Fluids". 

2004

IAESTE student internship

IAESTE student internship at the Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin, Germany.

2003

IAESTE student internship

IAESTE student internship at the University of Konstanz in the Laboratory of Ecology, Limnology and General Microbiology in Germany

Skills
& Expertise

  • Good interpersonal and communication skills among academia and industry

  • Good communication in international and interdisciplinary teams

  • Good research, analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Organizational and time management skills

  • Ability to work alone without supervision

  • Patient and persistent, able to work under pressure and remain calm in stressful situations

  • Attention to detail to avoid mistakes

  • The ability to deal positively with change

  • Awareness of confidentiality when working with students or staff confidential documents

  • IT skills in areas such as word processing, spreadsheets, databases and the internet as well as using social media 

  • Additional IT skills in Decision support software (PROMETHEE, TranshapertChoice), basics of Phyton, basics of web design (Wix, Wordpress)

  • A flexible approach to work

  • Hosting guests from all over the world by renting apartments 

  • Diving license R1, CMAS

  • National award for volunteering on Environmental Protection Projects

  • Certificate from ELT school, London „English for University Administration"

  • Fluent in English and German

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