Our Building and Environmental Health team has 3 vacancies within their administration team.
As part of the Building and Environmental Health team this role will put to use your administration experience to ensure a high level of customer service to the team and our external and internal customers. The role requires excellent organisation skills and an ability to prioritise a busy workload and manage conflicting tasks.
In these roles you will need to have great organisational skills, advanced attention to detail and excellent communication skills in order to build a strong relationships and collaborations with all stakeholders.
**About the role**:
- Processing, typing and issuing of Development Consents
- Processing requests for building information
- Issuing and processing quotes, invoices, and refunds
- Undertaking administrative processes for fire safety devices
- Running reports and statistics for the Building and Environmental Health Unit
- Assist the Building and Environmental Health Unit with administrative functions where required.
**What's on offer**:
- **Administrative Officer x 2 contract** **between 1 and 3 years** (with a potential opportunity for permanency) - base salary ranging from $1,068.32 per week with competency-based increments up to $1,224.01 per week, plus 10.5% super
- **Administrative Assistant** - **permanent role - **base salary ranging from $965.33 per week with competency-based increments up to $1,094.4 per week, plus 10.5% super
- 35 hour week, 9 day fortnight
- training and development opportunities
- flexible work options for a healthy work/life balance
- generous employment conditions (we have too many to list - **click here** for more).
**We are seeking**:
- Advanced experience in the preparation and issuing of all types of Developments Consents and Local Government Statutory approvals
- Demonstrated ability to multi-task and prioritise effectively
- Great attention to detail
- Good communication skills.
**About us**:
- Located on the picturesque far North Coast of NSW, bordering the Gold Coast.
- The Tweed is a vibrant, diverse location offering a lifestyle near the water, in a rainforest or on a farm.
- Join an employer of choice. Professionals Australia (Local Government Engineers' Association) has named Council the 2021 Employer of Choice for our great employment practices within NSW local government.
**Where it's located**:
This position is based in Murwillumbah, and can be directed to work from any Council work site.
**Position closes**:
Click here to view the Admin Officer **(contract)** Position Description
Click here to view the Admin Assistant Position Description
Click here for more information on the Recruitment Process
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**Pre-Employment Screening**:
Tweed Shire Council conducts pre-employment assessments as part of its recruitment process.
Job offers are not made until screening has been completed. Tweed Shire Council uses third-party providers to undertake:
- Background screening - verifies that the information you have provided throughout the recruitment process is true and correct. Click here for more information.
**How To Apply**:
You may wish to prepare your responses in a Word document. You can then COPY and PASTE your answers from Word into the below fields:
- Have your Resume document ready to go.
- Fill out all questions below. Click 'Next'. For tips on how to address the selection criteria, click here
- You'll then be prompted to attach your resume and other documents (if applicable). Click 'Next'.
**If you'd like to COPY and PASTE selection criteria fields into a separate Word document to work on over time, please find them listed below**:
E**ssential**:
1. Minimum Certificate III in Business / Administration studies or relevant discipline along with demonstrated knowledge and experience in an administrative support role.
OR
Extensive experience and competence in a similar role.
2. Demonstrated advanced competence in typing, data entry, Microsoft Word and Excel.
3. Demonstrated competence in general administrative and clerical tasks such as telephone/reception skills, record keeping, photocopying, production, retrieval, manipulation and storage of documents.
5. Demonstrated competence in a wide range of administrative support activities to a range of professional officers.
6. Well-developed written and verbal communication skills.
7. Capacity to manage workloads and competing priorities effectively.
8. Good interpersonal skills and capacity to work within a team environment.
9. Demonstrated knowledge of work health and safety in an office environment.
**Desirable**:
10. Demonstrated competence in the use of a record management system, financial, property and/or GIS software.
11. Experience within a local government environment or an understanding of Local Government functions and procedures.
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