Employment Term: Full time, Monday to Friday role - maximum term until 30 June 2025, with potential for extension.
Location: Bilinga
Remuneration: $73,798.06 + 11.5 % Super + 15,900 NFP Salary Packaging
Make a meaningful difference with UnitingCare
We're looking for someone who wants to make the world a little better through small moments that leave big impacts. To build meaningful relationships and make a difference in the lives of others. An integral part of our Gold Coast Homelessness Service team, as an Administration Officer, you'll be encouraged to grow, develop and feel empowered to make the everyday easier for the people we care so passionately about. Let's make a meaningful difference, together.
Your part in our UnitingCare team
We're seeking an Administration Officer to join our Gold Coast Homelessness Service team to contribute to the operational objectives of the program by performing a range of high level and quality administrative and financial functions to support the management and operational team of the Gold Coast Homelessness Service - Immediate Housing Response.
As a key support role to the delivery of our services, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring business operations are run efficiently. As an Administrative Officer you will:
- Provide a range of general administrative activities which require initiative, confidentiality and sensitivity
- Diary and meeting management and coordination of travel arrangements
- Undertake the processing of a range of general financial functions including petty cash, payment of accounts.
- Maintaining quality processes and procedures
- Document preparation including human resource forms, reports, presentations and submissions
- Greeting visitors to the site
- Actioning maintenance requests for site
- Qualifications
- Certificate IV in Business Administration, Event Management or other relevant qualification
- Minimum 2 years providing Administrative support and assistance to management.
- Current Drivers Licence
- Positive Blue Card
- Experience within health, aged care and/or community services sector and not-for-profit sector
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
- Extensive Microsoft Suite skills and knowledge (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.)
- Demonstrated ability to manage financial functions
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with the Senior Management Team, Executive Leadership Team, staff and volunteers.
- Strong organisational skills, the capacity to successfully manage competing priorities, maintain attention to detail and meet deadlines.
- Experience in organising workshops and meetings.
- Strong writing, spelling, and grammar skills
- Ability to resolve problems
- Ability to multi-task and prioritise workload
- Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to act professionally at all times and work under pressure
- Ability to collaborate within a small Administration team
What makes a difference for you?
- At UnitingCare we are leaders in crisis response, the protection of vulnerable children, financial resilience and family wellbeing. Our Family and Child Services team work passionately across Queensland to make a meaningful difference in people's lives._- Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance- Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum- A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs- A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others- Eligible employees are entitled to 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme; for eligible employees.- Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events- Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference
We'd love you to be part of our UnitingCare family
Our Family and Disability Services team are passionate about their work with parents to ensure children remain safe in the home and parents have the skills, resilience and capability to effectively parent and meet their children's developmental, educational, health and well-being needs. We also provide targeted services to men who are seeking to change their behaviour.
- Child safe, Child friendly_
- UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:_- provide welcoming, safe & nurturing services for children_- implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services_- appropriately and immediately address chi