Community Engagement Assistant

• Permanent full time. Monday to Friday – 35 hour working week.
• Enjoy above award pay with non-for-profit (NFP) salary packaging up to $15,900 per year of your salary tax free plus an additional $2500 for meals, entertainment and accommodation.
• Work with a supportive and collaborative team.
• Learning organisation with a focus on team member Development and Talent Plans.
• Career development and growth opportunities.
• Access Health and Wellbeing programs including EAP- Employee Assistance Program- free confidential support for you and your family.
• Paid Parental Leave and other great employee benefits.
• Great office locations, close to public transportation.
• Make an impact every day.

St George Community Housing (SGCH) provides sustainable, safe, and affordable housing as the foundation for our customers to connect to opportunities and build their communities. With a business head and a social heart, we deliver together with passion and purpose, guided by our values. Recognised as Employer of Choice (Public Sector and Not For Profit) at the 2022 Australian Business Awards, at SGCH you can realise your potential, whilst being supported to balance and achieve.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Metro North East Connecting Communities team as a Community Engagement Assistant. This role is full-time permanent, reporting to the Lead, Connecting Communities-MNE. This role will be based between our Redfern and St Leonards offices with travel to other SGCH sites regularly as per the requirements of the role.

The focus of an SGCH Community Engagement Assistant is to provide a full range of administrative support for a program of identified community development activities and events. You work as part of a team of dedicated SGCH team members and partner organisations with a shared purpose to increase the opportunities for people living in social housing communities to improve their sense of community, health and wellbeing.

As an SGCH Community Engagement Assistant you support the delivery of community development and placemaking activities and events that aim to strengthen community connections and empower social housing tenants to become involved in their local community.

• Provide a broad range of administration support to the team including record keeping, managing logistics, preparing invoices, managing the team inbox and booking work vehicles for events.
• Provide on-the-ground assistance before and during community events including planning, promotion, catering coordination, set up and pack down and engaging with community.
• Take meeting minutes and record data at community events.
• Maintain the closed SGCH Facebook group and create content to promote and celebrate community events.
• Provide responsive and respectful customer-centric services when engaging with people living in community housing.

To succeed in the role, you will have the below key attributes:

• Current NSW driving license (P1 or above)
• Experience in a busy and demanding administrative environment
• Experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds and cultures
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Self-motivated with a learning mindset, with experience working collaboratively to deliver outcomes
• Good computer skills including recent experience working with Microsoft Excel

If this sounds like you, please send a cover letter addressing the essential criteria and a copy of your up-to-date CV using the form below before 9:00am, Wednesday 8 January 2025.

Please note that no late applications will be accepted.

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