Executive Assistant

**Provide support to executive leaders**:

- **Enjoy a rostered day off approximately once every 3 weeks**:

- **Hybrid work environment**

**About Us**

City of Ryde, just 12 kilometres from Sydney CBD, is a place of unique lifestyle and opportunity. It is home to an engaged and culturally diverse community of around 130,000 people, and a strong and growing Smart City economy including more than 13,000 local businesses, Macquarie Park, world-class hospitals, and a leading university. All balanced with beautiful bushland, riverfront parks, open spaces, and sport facilities.

Our council delivers a broad range of services, projects, programs, and events. We are actively committed to innovation, sustainability, resilience and providing exceptional customer experiences, and this relies on attracting and keeping great people. We offer a range of benefits, including flexible work arrangements, health and wellbeing programs, a learning and development program including study support, and a reward and recognition program.

**About the Role**

We are seeking an experienced secretarial/office administrator to provide high level executive support to our executive leaders, managers and staff.

The Executive Assistant will be responsible for a wide range of administrative tasks to ensure the efficient and effective operations across the organisation, whilst dealing with a variety of confidential and often conflicting demands. These responsibilities will include but not limited to; coordinating and drafting correspondence, reports, submissions, presentations, bulletins, executive diaries and agenda and minute taking.

**About You**

The successful applicant will have extensive proven experience providing high level administrative and organisational support in a similar role and demonstrate how they have used their initiative to manage and prioritise competing workloads.

In addition, you will also have:

- Tertiary qualifications in Business Administration, Secretarial/Office Administration, Report Writing, or significant experience in a similar position.
- Experience dealing with Councillors, board members and/or senior executives
- Demonstrated experience in report writing, memo preparation and minute taking
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities in a fast-paced environment

Your commencing annual salary will range from **$81,854.82 to $106,411.27 + Superannuation**dependent on your experience and qualifications.

**Culture & Benefits**
- Free shuttle bus between the North Ryde Office and North Ryde Metro Station
- Commitment to providing opportunities for work/life balance
- Hybrid work from home and office arrangements available for eligible positions
- Flexibility regarding start and finish times to suit your lifestyle
- Work 37.5 hours and enjoy a rostered day off approx. every 3 weeks
- Long service leave after 5 years, then accrued monthly
- 18 weeks paid parental leave (for eligible employees)
- 3 extra grant days at Christmas to ensure you have time to enjoy the holiday
- Annual performance reviews and Award increases
- Opportunity to sign up as a fitness passport member
- Various health & well-being initiatives (i.e. flu vaccinations, etc.)

**How to apply**

**Closing Date**: Sunday, 01 June 2025 at 11:30pm

If you would like to know more, please see the **position description** or contact Carmelina Loughland on 0466811771 for a confidential discussion.

**City of Ryde is committed to Equal Employment and Child Safety