**Job description**:
This Federal Government department is seeking an experienced
**APS5 Executive Assistant** for the Corporate Services and Publications Branch. This is a 12 month labour hire contract and the office is located in Forrest, you will be required to hold a baseline security clearance.
**Our Section**
The Business Services Team within the Corporate Services Group is divided into two small teams, Executive Support and Business Support. Together the teams provide a broad range of services for the organisation from looking after the building to supporting daily operations of the office. This ranges from property and security; executive support; corporate support; building maintenance; project management and information and records.
**About the role**
**Key responsibilities**
The Executive Assistant provides high-level administrative and executive support to General Manager Corporate and General Manager Publications, including:
- Monitoring and tracking incoming documents to ensure correspondence is triaged and actioned accordingly.
- Undertaking diary management, including prioritising time and drawing attention to matters of importance.
- Preparing briefs, reports, minutes and other correspondence.
- Providing secretariat support to meetings, committees and working groups as required.
- The Executive Assistant will be proactive, approachable, helpful and professional in performing each of the above functions
**To be suitable for this role, you will have**:
- Demonstrated experience and competence in an Executive Assistant role.
- Demonstrated planning and organisational skills, including the ability to meet deadlines with competing priorities and delivering work to a high standard with good attention to detail.
- Demonstrated effective verbal communication skills, including strong interpersonal and communication skills and ability to develop and maintain effective internal and external working relationships, and
- Demonstrated ability to proactively and consistently meet deadlines and ensure delivery against objectives.
Applicants are required to hold
**Baseline or NV1 security **clearance.
If you are interested in this role, please
Note: You may be required to provide evidence of your COVID-19 vaccination status.