**NSW Government - Executive Assistant**
- **Immediate start, initial 1 month contract with view to extend**:
- **Grade 7/8**:
- **$47 - $51.50ph + super**:
- **Wollongong location/hybrid**:
- **Full time, Monday to Friday**
We have an urgent role for a busy Government department in the emergency services sector, requiring an experienced EA/Staff Officer for a temporary contract with the possibility of extension.
You will be supporting the Director of Organisational Strategy, Planning and Performance, working in a fast-paced environment within a support and friendly team.
- The NSW State Emergency Service (NSW SES) is an emergency and rescue service made up almost entirely of volunteers and supported by a small staff contingent._
- NSW SES is a key influencer of other emergency service agencies and works closely with these partners to modernise and grow volunteering to save lives and protect communities._
- While major responsibilities are for flood, storm operations and tsunamis, the NSW SES also provides the majority of general rescue effort in the rural parts of the state._
- This includes road accident rescue, vertical rescue, bush search and rescue, evidence searches (both metropolitan and rural), other forms of specialist rescue that may be required due to local threats, Urban Search and Rescue and Community First Response._
**The role requires you to provide a range of executive and project support services, including**:
- Managing complex and sensitive issues
- High level stakeholder engagement
- Prepare, coordinate and review high level communication including ministerials, submissions, briefing notes and correspondance
- Coordination of high pressure daily work tasks for the Director and Senior Managers
- Research, analyse, collate and coordinate reports, advice and briefings
- Act as the Director's point of contact, analyse and assess requests to prioritise matters, and initiate action exercising discretion and maintaining confidentiality
**Skills/Experience**:
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
- Previous experience drafting ministerials is desirable
- Well-developed organisational skills, including the ability to work independently and manage time effectively
- Highly adaptable with the ability to learn quickly
- Proactive and ability to take initiative
- Tech savvy with demonstrated experience
**APPLICATIONS CLOSING SOON**
**Job Types**: Full-time, Contract
Contract length: 1 month
**Salary**: $47.00 - $51.00 per hour
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift