Garden and Grounds Officer

**Full-time permanent role** **6.30am until 3.00pm**:

- **5 weeks Annual Leave, salary packaging and RDO available**:

- **Lots of variety in a supportive team**:

- **$74k + super**

Strathcona Girls Grammar School has a strongly connected community of learners where students achieve excellent academic and co-curricular results.

Located in Melbourne's eastern suburbs, we are a unique, medium-sized girls' school with three separate campuses in Canterbury and Hawthorn. The school provides education from ELC to Year 12. Both boys and girls are catered for in the Early Learning Centre.

At Strathcona, you are given every opportunity to experience genuine career progression within the education sector. With access to state-of-the-art resources and facilities, ongoing professional development and opportunities for advancement, your career can be enriched and full of promise.

**Your future starts here**

The Garden and Grounds Officer is a full time (1.0 FTE) role providing operational support to ensure that the School's gardens and grounds, buildings, plant and equipment are well maintained, well presented, physically secure, compliant with all appropriate regulations and provide a safe environment for the School community.

A key aspect of the role is to be proactive in identifying issues and aiming for constant improvements across the School.

**Who are we looking for?**
- Experience with grounds and gardening or horticulture roles
- Relevant and demonstrated experience in similar school roles is well regarded but not essential
- Demonstrated physical ability to lift and manipulate equipment and perform manual work
- Knowledge and experience in OHS practices and procedures
- Comprehensive experience with power and garden tools
- Hold a chemical users ticket or have the ability to obtain one
- Possesses a positive outlook, exceptional interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence with demonstrated ability to build authentic, collaborative and productive relationships
- Is aligned with the School's ethos, vision and values
- Participates as a collaborative team member and operates effectively in a collaborative team environment
- High level of organisational, communication and time management skills
- Possess knowledge of Child Safety standards, policies and procedures and has Working with Children Check
- Current Victorian Driver's License required
- Strong teamwork skills

The position has a wide range of detailed responsibilities and required outcomes. For a full position description please visit our website.

**Want to chat?**

Connect with Mark Kilmister on 03 8779 7500

Strathcona Girls Grammar School is an organisation committed to Child Protection and to the implementation of Childsafe policies and practices.

Strathcona Girls Grammar School is an organisation committed to Child Protection and to the implementation of Childsafe policies and practices.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Extended annual leave
- Salary packaging

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday