AddressJoin us as the Senior Administrative Officer at Berry Street's Noble Park office, where you will lead our administrative team and ensure smooth operations across the South East Victoria region. With your strong administrative background, proficiency in MS Office, and excellent communication skills, you'll play a crucial role in supporting our staff and enhancing our service delivery. If you are a detail-oriented leader passionate about making a difference, this is your opportunity to contribute to a supportive and impactful community organisation.
- Full time, permanent position
- Base salary $72K -$79K (range dependent on experience) plus super and salary packaging
- Noble Park location, bordering Wurundjeri & Boonwurrung Country
The Opportunity:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Administrative Officer (SAO) to lead our team of Administration Officers at the Noble Park office. The SAO will serve as the primary point of contact for all administrative matters and provide support to staff at the Berry Street Noble Park office. This role is integral to the region's administrative leadership team, sharing responsibility for ensuring that all interactions with Berry Street stakeholders are conducted with courtesy, respect, and efficiency.
- Support the Senior Manager-Administrative Operations in overseeing the Administration function at our Noble Park Office.
- Serve as the main point of contact for Senior Administration at the Noble Park Office, ensuring operations run smoothly.
- Provide administrative assistance to staff in the South East Victoria region.
- Lead and develop our administration team to ensure efficiency and productivity.
- Collaborate closely with the administration leadership team to drive operational excellence.
- Offer property support to our residential services team on-site.
Your Skills and Experience
The ideal candidate will have experience in administration or hold a relevant qualification such as a Cert IV or Diploma in Business Admin or above. Proficiency in computer skills, including advanced MS Word, intermediate Excel, and Outlook, is required.
We value candidates who are quick learners, team players, and possess strong accuracy and attention to detail skills. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, are essential. Experience with client databases is considered highly advantageous.
Your skills and experience
Our people are important to us, we value lived experiences, people’s diversities, and views of all. We are looking for the next person to bring their experiences and who shares the same values and enthusiasm in creating positive experiences and outcomes for our young people.
The ability to understand the importance of prioritising work within established policies, guidelines, and procedures is essential to the role. As is, time management, teamwork, and understanding what's needed and what's required to get it done.
Berry Street
Join our team! We are one of the largest independent agencies within Australia, providing over 40,000 diverse programs to young people, children and families across Victoria each year. We pride ourselves on our ingenuity, evidence based and multi-dimensional thinking to provide the best outcomes for our young people! We believe children, young people and families should be safe, thriving and hopeful and strive to make this happen each day!
Extra benefits!
- Above award salaries & allowances
- Regular reflective supervision
- A culture that values and support professional development
- $15,900.00 pa (pro rata) Salary Packaging + Additional Salary Packaging for meals/accommodation
- 10 weeks paid parental leave + other generous leave conditions!
- Access to the Employee Assistance Program, with access for staff's immediate family
Apply now!
Applications including resume and cover letter addressing your suitability for the position to be submitted by Midnight on Monday 27th May, 2024
Queries to Jo Lester, Senior Manager of Administrative Operations South East Victoria Region on (03) 9239 1***.
Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and National Police Check.
Berry Street is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTIQA+. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply.
