About the role
Based in Townsville, the Business Support Officer will provide administrative support for the Northern Region, including email and diary management for the Director. Coordinate and respond to enquiries and correspondence and assist in the coordination, preparation, and delivery of reports, dashboards, and executive correspondence and document management.
Working with a family-friendly team, we offer a supportive hybrid work environment with flexible work from home arrangements. We encourage work-life balance and celebrate additional leave over the Christmas/New Year period and through rostered days off.
Some of the key responsibilities of this role are:
- Provide administrative support and oversee administrative processes, such as records and correspondence management.
- Arrange meetings and workshops and prepare agendas, reports and take minutes as required.
- Maintain client confidentiality and display utmost professional integrity when dealing with sensitive matters.
- Processing of invoices, purchasing and finance administration within budget guidelines and delegation levels.
- Manage travel administration for the unit, including flight and accommodation bookings.
- Create and maintain standard letters, templates, document formats, mailing lists and other information for the unit.
About You
As the ideal candidate, you will be energetic and well organised, able to manage competing priorities. You will be motivated to work in a team environment in the delivery of a broadly based administrative service.
- Demonstrated strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to prepare a range of documentation for the business.
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills and the ability to manage effective relationships with customers, stakeholders and colleagues.
- Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team of people to provide consistent, responsive and high quality support.
- Extensive experience in using a range of and business systems, MS Office suite and information technology.
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and meet critical deadlines.
- Highly developed conceptual, analytical and problem solving skills and the ability to apply sound judgement to decision making.
- Demonstrated ability to plan and manage support services and tasks to establish a course of action for self and others to achieve specific objectives and deliver expected outcomes
About us
The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) commenced operations in 2013 as the national entity responsible for regulating all vehicles in Australia over 4.5 tonnes gross vehicle mass. The NHVR minimises the compliance burden on the heavy vehicle transport industry, reduces duplication and inconsistences across state and territory borders, and ultimately for the heavy vehicle business with government in Australia.
We are headquartered in Brisbane and employ more than 750 people across the ACT, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria.
Application Process
If the above position sounds like an opportunity for you, please apply with your CV and cover letter addressing the essential requirements of the role.
Applications close COB , 10 April 2024
Further information and the position description can be found on the NHVR Careers site - https://careers.nhvr.gov.au/jobs/search. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact the NHVR recruitment team on ***********@nhvr.gov.au.
Successful applicants will be required to complete a national police and work rights check.
We are committed to being an inclusive, diverse and flexible workplace where differences are valued. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experience and abilities.