Executive Support Officer

**Executive Support Officer**

**At the NSW**Department of Education**, we educate and inspire lifelong learners - from early childhood, through schooling to vocational education and training.**

- **Ongoing Full-Time**
- **Located in Eveleigh with flexible working arrangements available**
- **Salary: Clerk Grade 3/4 with salary ranging from $ 84,659 to $ 92,701 + super and annual leave loading**
- **Join a collaborative and supportive team to make a difference**

**About Cleaning Services**
The NSW Government’s reforms to public sector cleaning services entail the NSW Department of Education taking over management of the state’s Whole-of-Government cleaning contracts from January 1, 2026.

A team has been established to deliver an enhanced Whole-of-Government cleaning contract for alignment and delivery of all program streams. Including Governance, ITD, Recruitment and Risk Management.

**About the role**
As an Executive Support Officer, you will deliver high-quality administrative and executive support, ensuring information flows smoothly, meetings run efficiently, and decisions are well-informed.

In this role, you will manage executive correspondence, diaries, and travel arrangements to keep the office operating seamlessly.

**Key tasks include**:

- Coordinating meetings, preparing agendas, and taking and distributing minutes
- Assisting with routine financial transactions, including purchase orders and receipts
- Maintaining accurate records, organising information for reports and correspondence, and responding to enquiries, escalating or redirecting issues as needed
- Your work will enable the Executive Director to focus on achieving organisational objectives with confidence.

For further information please click here to view the role description

**About you**
We are looking for someone who is a proactive organiser and thrives on keeping everything in order and supporting a busy executive team.

- Exceptional organisational and multitasking skills
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Experience managing diaries, meetings, and correspondence
- Attention to detail and accuracy in records
- A proactive, helpful, and team-minded attitude

**Key Knowledge and Experience**

- Experience in providing administrative and executive support.
- Knowledge of and commitment to implementing the Department’s Aboriginal Education Policy and upholding the Department’s Partnership Agreement with the NSW AECG and to ensure quality outcomes for Aboriginal people.

**Essential requirements of the role**

- Current and valid Working with Children Check clearance for paid employment.
- Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to the value of public education.

**Benefits**

- Flexible working arrangements
- 35 hour working week
- Competitive, salary sacrificing, employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading
- Flex Leave entitlements, generous holidays & leave conditions
- Opportunities for advancement and mobility across the Department to support your career growth

**How to apply**
Attach a resume (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements and capabilities of this role.

**Targeted Questions**

- **Describe your experience providing executive or administrative support? (300 words)**
- **How do you manage competing priorities and deadlines? (300 words)**

**This is a child-related role.**As a condition of employment you will be required to provide a valid Working with Children Check (WWCC) Clearance number (for paid employment). Visit the website for more information.

**Closing date: Wednesday, 19 November 2025 at 11:59pm.**

A recruitment pool may be created through this recruitment process. A recruitment pool is a group of applicants who have been assessed and identified as suitable for this role, and who may be considered for a range of similar roles, including temporary, term or ongoing roles, over the next 18 months.