Executive Assistant

**Role**: Executive Assistant
**Location**: Murarrie, QLD (Turrbal and Yuggera peoples)
**Employment Type**: Permanent Full Time
Are you a highly organised professional with a passion for making an impact?
As the Executive Assistant to Chief role/s at Goodstart Early Learning, you’ll provide high-level administrative support, manage communications with sensitivity and confidentiality, prepare reports and papers, and contribute to meaningful projects that shape our future.
**The role will focus on**:
**Exceptional Organisational Skills**: Ability to manage multiple tasks, schedules, and priorities efficiently, ensuring smooth operations for executives.
**Strong Communication**: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact with stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally.
**Discretion and Confidentiality**: Proven ability to handle sensitive information with the utmost confidentiality and professionalism.
**Proactive Problem-Solving**: Capable of anticipating needs and taking initiative to resolve issues independently while supporting senior leadership.
**Your Impact**:
To provide executive-level administrative support including diary and appointments' management, organising and managing meetings and conferences (including preparing agendas and minutes of meetings, as required), and actioning correspondence.
Prepare complex documents as may be required, for presentations, reports and meetings, ensuring a high level of confidentiality and sensitivity as to management of document-content.
Collate reports as required and ensure that all required stakeholders.
Research into matters and issues as requested from time to time, ensuring comprehensive and thorough investigations into matters are completed, full sets of facts are obtained, and recommendations made where needed.
Through leadership, promotes the goals and values of the organisation in a positive manner and demonstrates a high level of personal integrity.
**What Goodstart can offer you**:
Flexible work arrangements giving you choice about when and how work will be done in order to better manage your work and non-work needs
Not-For-Profit Salary Packaging benefits which reduce your taxable income to increase take home pay
Access to discounted childcare (up to 15%)
Discounted health care and access to employee wellbeing program with BUPA
Exclusive discounts on travel, gym memberships, Apple and Dell products, and more.
Free annual flu shot (optional)
Option to purchase extra leave for even greater work life balance
First Nations Support and Cultural Leave
Work for a company that has an aspiration to be globally recognised for early years practice and learning outcomes
Gain significant investment in your growth and development with support, tools, training and experiences that will truly enhance the progress and outcomes for children in their earliest years.
**To be successful in the role you will have**:
Previous successful experience in a dynamic and fast past Executive Assistant position in a multi-site, human service-related organisation.
Have excellent attention to detail, organisational and communication skills.
Strong previous experience working across multiple levels within an organisation and communicating confidently and effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
Ability to manage conflicting deadlines calmly
Competency with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint to Advanced level
Knowledge of early learning centres practices is an advantage.
How to apply
Supporting our people and protecting our children
We’re an equal opportunity employer that is proud of our inclusive and diverse work environment. We know that Goodstarters from diverse cultures, backgrounds and experiences strengthen our teams and help us grow. We’re also deeply committed to Reconciliation and creating an environment where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People feel a strong sense of belonging and connection.
**Posting Notes**: MURARRIE, BRISBANE || QLD || Australia (AU) || | || No Early Childhood Qualification || Full-Time