Executive Assistant

2 months ago

Melbourne, Australia ORIMA Research Full time

Posted: 03/09/2024

Closing Date: 26/09/2024

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Melbourne

Job Category: Administration

**About us**:
ORIMA Research is a private Australian-owned professional services firm that provides market and social research, data analytics, organizational performance improvement and related advisory services. We are a genuine public sector research specialist, whereby over 90% of our clients are in the government sector. Established in 1996, we now have around 70 professional staff working across four offices in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane.

ORIMA is a values-based organisation, and we pride ourselves on our service ethos, high performance culture, innovation, integrity and focus on helping our staff to thrive. We are:

- People who believe in the value of evidence-based approaches to inform government decision making;
- Lateral thinkers and problem solvers - we find the best solutions for our clients; and
- From a diverse range of qualifications and professional backgrounds.

This supporting position is an exciting opportunity for someone with at least 5 years’ experience as an Executive Assistant or similar role. This is a role you can truly own and make a difference in. It will enable you to be part of a high performing professional services organization that makes a significant positive impact on the wellbeing of Australians through supporting market and social research, advisory and data services that informs government policies, programs and initiatives.

Please note flexibility with hours is required to effectively support the Founding Director who travels frequently and undertakes evening work related to projects. The role works from our light-filled, fresh, newly renovated offices in Collingwood, Victoria, on the edge of Melbourne CBD.

This role will suit an early-career Executive Assistant familiar with supporting business owners and senior executives, with the opportunity to be involved in social research project work.

Key priorities of the role include:

- Providing high-level organisational and administrative support to the Founding Director, primarily, and the Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, secondarily, who are generally self-sufficient. This is approximately 50 per cent for the role; and
- Undertaking research support for projects, which are generally being led by the Founding Director and the Qualitative Research teams that report to her. This is approximately 50 per cent for the role.

**Key Duties**:
Typical tasks associated with **EA and Corporate** components of the role include:

- Diary management, scheduling meetings, appointments and tasks. Preparation of daily meeting folders.
- Meeting preparation and co-ordination (e.g. scheduling, organising agendas, taking minutes and update action items, distribute pre and post meeting reports and documents, track and follow up on actions ).
- Monitor plans, priorities and deadlines.
- Assist in time management, managing tasks and workflow, keeping track of deliverables (e.g. reports, proposals) and project status.
- Liaise with other ORIMA staff on deliverables and tasks, proactively following up Project Managers for reports, proposals and other deliverables needing to be cleared by Directors.
- Organise travel (flights, accommodation).
- Liaise with clients and external stakeholders on behalf of the Directors.
- Manage confidential information, with highly developed discretion.
- Manage expenses.
- Manage/complete time sheets
- Prepare and co-ordinate published information such as fact sheets requiring simple graphic design and formatting.
- Undertake general ad hoc administration (e.g. minute taking, binding, folder management).

Types of tasks associated with **Research Project Support** component include:

- Prepare and draft basic written proposals using templates, PowerPoint slides, mailouts and other written documents.
- Provide fieldwork management backup for the Qualitative Research Division and support other qualitative project co-ordinators, at peak times or when absences occur.
- As required, book stakeholders for interviews, schedule calls, undertake survey reminder follow up calls and as part of a team, take inbound Hotline calls from survey participants as required.
- Proactively raise issues/make suggestions/plan solutions to ensure that project timelines and deliverables are met.
- Assist other staff and projects as required.

**Desired Skills and Experience**:
**About you**:

- Australian citizen or permanent resident
- Demonstrated experience supporting senior management/business owners as an Executive Assistant - anticipated at least 5 years’ relevant work experience
- Experience working in a professional services, consulting, external client interacting organization is highly desirable.
- Previous experience in communicating with Senior and Executive level staff in the public or private sectors advantageous, though not essential
- Strong proficiency in the

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