The Details:
- Permanent Full Time | 9 day fortnight
- $103,597pa + 12% super (level 5)
- 72.5 hour fortnight
- Hybrid, flexible working environment, including some work from home days.
- Location: Strathpine
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Ready for your next executive support challenge?
We are seeking an experienced and highly capable Senior Executive Support Officer to support our newly appointed General Manager Corporate Communications and Engagement.
This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in a fast-paced and high-profile environment, providing strategic and operational support that enables the General Manager and leadership team to focus on delivering outcomes for our growing community.
As a trusted partner, you'll be the person who keeps priorities on track, anticipates challenges before they arise and ensures the smooth operation of a busy executive office.
In this role, you will:
- Manage a busy diary, competing priorities and executive commitments.
- Coordinate projects and key initiatives, including departmental logistics with an impending office move and organisational change activities.
- Prepare, coordinate and monitor briefing materials, committee documentation and meeting actions.
- Organise conferences, seminars, workshops and stakeholder events.
- Draft high quality correspondence, reports and presentations.
- Provide financial administration support, including credit card reconciliation, invoice processing and budget coordination.
- Track deadlines and ensure follow-up actions are completed within required timeframes.
- Investigate and resolve complex enquiries, matters and escalations.
- Identify and implement process improvements that enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
- Build strong working relationships and contribute to a positive, collaborative team culture.
Click here to view the Position Description to learn more
About You
You are an experienced executive support professional who thrives in a dynamic environment and enjoys the agile nature of supporting a GM that sits across a reactionary and strategic portfolio.
Building strong relationships comes naturally to you, and you're known for your ability to keep things moving while maintaining professionalism, discretion and attention to detail.
You can confidently assess situations, exercise sound judgement and determine when issues require escalation. Your strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills enable you to navigate competing demands and make well-informed decisions within a complex environment.
Highly organised, proactive and adaptable, you take ownership of your work and anticipate what needs to happen next. You quickly build knowledge of systems, processes and stakeholders, allowing you to connect the dots, meet compliance requirements and support effective collaboration across the organisation.
Most importantly, you're ready to take the next step in your career and join a passionate team that is committed to communicating and engaging authentically with our diverse and growing community.
Why City of Moreton Bay?
What you do with your life matters. It’s the same with your career.
We’re the third-largest council in Australia and one of the fastest-growing areas. As Australia’s newest city, we’re building something that’s never been done before: a new kind of city, inspired and empowered by a new kind of council.
This is your opportunity to develop skills and experience in a truly unique place, at a truly unique point in time.
At City of Moreton Bay, we’re focused on the vital work we do today. But we’re also focused on the future. On what can be – for our city, our Council and your career.
Here’s what you’ll love about a career with us:
- See it. To build a city of the future, first, you have to see it. The polycentric city we’re building will bring greater prosperity, sustainability and affordability to our city. This is your chance to contribute to something that’s never been done before.
- Shape it. You’ll get hands-on in a rewarding career, serving and strengthening our communities for today and tomorrow. Our work is diverse, interesting and it matters – and it’s yours to shape and own.
- Live it. Contribute to the city you and your family want to live in and enjoy the lifestyle you deserve. And if you don’t live here, you’ll still find pride and connection in so many ways with our successful, resilient team.
You’ll also enjoy a range of other benefits:
- Find a better work-life balance with a nine-day (72.5-hour) fortnight, plus a hybrid, flexible working environment with some work-from-home days.
- Negotiated salary increases locked in through our EBA
- Advance your skills and career through our Study, Training And Research Scheme (STARS).
- Make your pay go further with salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation payments, smartphones and devices.
- Prioritise your health and wellbeing with discounted health insurance, free annual flu vaccinations and our Fitness Passport Program.
- Get support when you and your family need it most with our 24/7 confidential counselling service.
- Our Strathpine office has local parking on site and is close to public transport networks, making for an easy commute.
Ready for a Career That Matters?
Join City of Moreton Bay and play a key role in supporting a General Manager and department that helps shape how Council connects, communicates and engages with our community.
If you're an experienced executive support professional looking for a role where you can make a genuine impact, we'd love to hear from you.
Click on the 'Apply Now' button below to complete your online application. Please upload a current resume that demonstrates how you meet the requirements for this role. You will also have the option to add a cover letter should you wish.
As part of the recruitment process, applicants will be required to undergo a National Criminal History Check.
Any questions - please contact our Careers team at careers@moretonbay.qld.gov.au.
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City of Moreton Bay extends across the traditional lands of the Jinibara, Kabi Kabi, and Turrbal peoples, and we acknowledge and pay respects to Traditional Custodians. We believe diversity of thought, background and experience creates better outcomes for our people and communities, and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all ages, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.
