Executive Assistant Regional Services

**About the role**:
We have an exciting role available as **Executive Assistant** to the General Manager Regional Services. This role is a varied and dynamic role providing executive and administrative support to our General Manager as well as the broader Regional Services team. Critical to achieving our key purpose, the Regional Services team delivers our on-ground services to meet the needs of the dairy industry and dairy farm businesses across Australia.

To be successful, you will be a trusted and responsive support to our General Manager, providing diary management, executive administration including travel logistics and bookings, event co-ordination, team meeting coordination, minute taking, report formatting and preparation, and finance administration. Your support to the broader team will include organising team meetings, fleet administration, and being a point of contact for queries and resolution across the team.

You thrive working connectedly and synergistically with your manager while developing and maintaining professional relationships. You have agility to manage the unexpected, can problem solve and are exceptionally organised. You enjoy working in a team to plan events and meetings, bringing your skills in logistics planning and coordination to the group. You actively seek to build you capacity in your role to enable you to direct, support and traffic light matters that need urgent attention from the General Manager.

Previous experience gained in a similar role will be valued, where you can demonstrate your strong stakeholder engagement skills, reliability and attention to detail, and energy and desire to make a difference. You may be required to do some overnight travel into regions - there will always be notice when this is required.

Just as important is your initiative and enthusiasm for:

- Structuring Tasks & Time Management: You manage tasks, uphold standards, are reliable, timely and produce outputs required.
- Building Relationships: you thrive on interacting with multiple stakeholders, establish rapport easily and impress people with your ability to tailor your communication to their needs.
- Processing Details: You follow procedures, meet timescales and check things thoroughly.
- Communicating Information: you convince people, challenge ideas and appropriately articulate information to your audience with strong attention to detail.

**About Dairy Australia**:
Dairy Australia’s role is to provide services that benefit and advance dairy farm businesses and the industry. These services deliver value by enhancing farm business management, supporting farm employment needs, driving herd and feed innovation, managing climate and environment, promoting Australian dairy and commitment to sustainability, supporting policy development, growing international markets and responding to critical issues and events such as floods and bushfires.

**Our Vision and Values**:
At Dairy Australia, our vision is simple, _to be leaders in shaping a profitable and sustainable dairy industry_. Our passionate and talented people share this vision and make an impact each day through their commitment to our values of:

- Farmer First - Farmer needs guide our purpose
- One Team - We work together to achieve great things
- Innovative Thinking - We embrace new ideas and learning as we go
- Decisive Action - We make informed decisions and move quickly to implement

**About your work life with us**:
At Dairy Australia, we aim to provide benefits that promote the overall wellbeing of our employees. In joining our team, you will be rewarded with:

- Flexible working environment - a hybrid working environment (at our office in Southbank with our team, combined with at home/virtual)
- Being a key member in our supportive and high performing team of experts in their field
- A caring and innovative culture - we are open to each other’s ideas, we love to innovate, we have integrity and are driven to find the best solutions for our employees and stakeholders
- Salary packaging
- Paid parental leave.

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