Executive Assistant (Place and Growth) - Maternity Relief

• Temporary Full-Time (70 hours per fortnight) – initial period up to 52 weeks
• From $70,395 pa (inc Superannuation)
• Monthly Rostered Day Off (RDO)

Council offers a wide range of benefits such as salary packaging (including novated motor vehicle leasing and remote area housing benefits), health and wellbeing programs and employee vaccinations to employees.

Do you want to be part of something challenging and rewarding? Are you passionate about our community? If so, joining the Glen Innes Severn Council might be the right career move for you.

Working for Council means you'll be joining a dedicated team where your individual effort is part of something much bigger – delivering great things for our community.

The Council covers an area of 5,487km², and is located in the beautiful New England area of NSW.  This area encompasses the town of Glen Innes and villages of Deepwater, Emmaville, Glencoe, Wellingrove and Red Range. We're proud of the contribution our community makes to this vibrant, dynamic and attractive area in which to live and work.

Glen Innes offers an attractive lifestyle including a well serviced and friendly rural community, laid back living, short commuting times, affordable housing, easy access to NSW north coast beaches and larger regional centres, and terrific recreational and sporting facilities. 

• Salary packaging (including novated motor vehicle leasing and remote area housing benefits) for all permanent staff
• Long service leave after 5 years
• Corporate wellbeing programs
• Employee vaccinations
• PPE supplied
• Training and development programs
• Education assistance

• Provide advanced level administrative and personal support to the Director of Place and Growth to meet strict deadlines and achieve goals. 
• Coordinate, draft, compile and publish a broad range of correspondence and documentation to meet organisational and legislative requirements.
• Maintain and improve the Department’s webpages on Council’s website by working co-operatively with key team members and managerial staff to ensure information is up-to-date, relevant and easily found.
• Implement, monitor and review Council’s policies relevant to this position. 
• Prepare meeting agendas and minutes for Committees of Council and other meetings.
• Maintain an awareness of relevant legislation, policies and procedures relevant to the area of responsibility and ensures that all work complies with such requirements. 
• Ensure that information and records are maintained and stored in accordance with relevant policies and procedures, in consultation with Council’s Records Supervisor. 
• Ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained, and privacy principles are adhered to in regard to confidential meeting business and other confidential or private business dealings. 
• Assist Department of Place and Growth staff with enquiries and administrative support relating to town planning, building certification, ranger duties, waste management services, economic development/tourism and events, customer service (Church Street front counter and Highlands Hub), cemeteries and recreation and open spaces.

• Demonstrated experience and ability in the provision of quality administrative services in a multi-disciplinary business environment
• Superior organisational skills, with the ability to effectively plan and coordinate activities and tasks involving multiple resources and stakeholders
• Highly effective interpersonal / oral communication skills and effective business writing skills
• Proven ability to deal appropriately with sensitive and / or confidential information and apply relevant privacy principles
• Advanced computer skills in word processing, Excel spread sheets, Internet and email, plus intermediate skills in PowerPoint and Publisher

Desirable 

• Diploma of Business Administration, Secretarial Studies or the equivalent
• Knowledge of Dynamics 365 local government accounting software and / or ECM records management software
• Knowledge of MapInfo or Arcgis geographical information system
• Class C driver’s licence (car licence)