Administration and Accounts Assistant

APS Level 4
- Adelaide, SA
- $82,039 - $87,737

**About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations**
We are committed to empowering futures, ensuring rights and enriching lives. We support people to have safe, secure and well-paid work with the skills for a sustainable future as we ourselves strive to be a model employer.

We provide the framework for fair and productive relationships between employers and employees. We also oversee skills development and training initiatives to support those entering the workforce or re-training to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities.

With us, your work directly contributes to shaping the employment landscape. Whether you are engaging in policy development, program implementation, or direct support services, your efforts will have a tangible impact on job seekers, employees and the economy by giving them a framework to build a future anchored and realised through employment.

It is our ambition to do things differently, to create the ‘department of great jobs’- where our people reflect our purpose.

**The Role**

An exciting opportunity exists for an APS4 Administration and Accounts Assistant in the Parent Pathways service delivered by the Australian Government to eligible parents with young children in the Playford and Gawler Local Government Areas (LGAs) and surrounds in South Australia.

Parent Pathways is a voluntary service that provides personalised assistance and financial support to eligible parents and carers with a youngest child up to the age of 6 years. The service supports the future aspirations of parents and carers by supporting them to build towards their education and employment goals, while respecting their needs and valuing their caring responsibilities. The Parent Pathways service is designed to be flexible, tailored and holistic, providing support to parents facing disadvantage, young parents, First Nations parents, parents with a disability and parents from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

**This is a full-time position, with the successful applicant required to work full-time on site in Elizabeth, South Australia, where the Parent Pathways service is delivered on a face-to-face basis.**

**Duties and Responsibilities**

As the Administration and Accounts Assistant, as part of your duties, you will need to:

- Make informed, accurate and researched decisions based on resources, policy and guidelines.
- Maintain an excellent standard of record keeping.
- Process payment reconciliations and retain documentary evidence based on guideline and Australian Government financial management requirements.
- Manage and arrange for payment of goods and services with suppliers in person, by phone or online with adherence to departmental and program policy and guidelines
- Oversee and organise workflow of the site calendar, book and reschedule parent appointments and general diary management, making informed decisions within appointed areas of responsibility.
- Maintain and manage stocktake of office supplies and process replenishment orders.
- Maintain general tidiness of the service during business hours.

**Qualifications and Education**
- Ability to obtain or maintain a Working with Children Check administered by the South Australia State Government (mandatory).
- Working full-time onsite at the Parent Pathways Elizabeth site located at Elizabeth City Centre.
- Ability to obtain or maintain a Baseline Security Clearance (mandatory).
- Current C Class Drivers Licence for South Australia (mandatory).

**How to Apply**

Applicants are required to provide a summary (no more than **500** words) that outlines skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.

The APS work level standards accommodate the diversity of roles across the APS and are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected (i.e. responsibilities and duties) at each classification level.

In the eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:

- upload a Curriculum Vitae
- provide contact details for 2 Referees.

**Eligibility**

**Don’t meet all the role requirements?**

**Citizenship** - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.