Ea / Executive Support Officer

• Initial Contract until EOFY + 12 Month Extension
• Ability to obtain a Baseline Clearance
• Canberra City Office Location + ASAP start date!

Our Client, a large Federal Government Agency is seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Executive Support Officer to provide high-level administrative support to Assistant Commissioners in the Enterprise Strategy and Transformation Division. You will be responsible for providing high-level Executive Support in a professional, accurate and timely manner.

The role will be responsible for, but not limited to:

• Provide high-level Executive Support to the Assistant Commissioner, the Executive cohort across the branch;
• Diary management including organising, scheduling and coordinating for Senior Executive;
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders;
• Proactively managing the workload of the Senior Executive by addressing enquires that are routine, moderately complex and independently responding to internal and external queries;
• Quality assurance (including proof reading, editing and drafting) of documents such as briefs, minutes and other advice, in accordance with departmental guidelines;
• Contribute to the improvement of business processes, including working with other Executive Assistants and staff across the organisation to support key business outcomes.

To excel you'll have:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills;
• Exceptional organisational, time management and communication skills to proactively manage daily workflow and competing requests, ensuring clear, timely and effective coordination;
• Sound judgement and show a high degree of initiative, integrity and discretion when dealing with confidential and sensitive business matters.
• Proven ability to achieve results, to organise priorities and meet deadlines;
• Confidence and the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders at all levels of seniority both in writing and verbally;
• Demonstrated experience providing highly organised coordination and administrative support;
• Well-developed computer and telephony skills, including strong experience with the Microsoft Office suite.

Desirable, yet not essential:

• Prior experience working in a an ICT environment;
• Prior experience using whole-of-government online travel booking tools and financial management solutions.

For a copy of the full job description including application instructions, please get in touch with Alison at the Recruitment Hive by clicking the Apply for this Job button. Alternatively, you can reach Alison on (02)6299 1*** to discuss further.

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Job ID8880