Executive Assistant

APS Level 6
- Canberra, ACT
- $98,105 - $107,880

**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're 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.

**Please note, this opportunity is for Ongoing APS employees only.**

**Please discuss the possibility of release with your manager before applying.**

**The Role**
Reporting to the Deputy Secretary of the Skills and Training Group, the APS 6 Executive Assistant is responsible for providing high level executive administrative support and office management, including diary management, travel arrangements, note-taking, general correspondence, meeting coordination, document preparation and records management.

**Skills and Capabilities**
We are seeking an individual with the following skills and capabilities:

- Organisational skills - adept at managing multiple diaries and the reprioritisation of tasks to accommodate competing and changing priorities.
- Initiative and good judgement to add value, recognise issues, develop solutions and anticipate the needs of the executive you are working with.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to develop and maintain internal and external relationships - as the 'face of the office' you will interact positively and professionally with a wide variety of stakeholders.
- Ability to thrive in a fast paced, high-volume environment.
- Ability to discreetly manage sensitive information, maintain confidentiality, and uphold the APS Values and APS Code of Conduct.
- Ability to make decisions using good judgement, expertise and knowledge, under limited guidance.
- Ability to build and maintain complex relationships and negotiate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to provide accurate advice, including anticipating problems and issues management.

**The Opportunity**
This position is available to Ongoing APS employees as a temporary transfer at level and/or a temporary performance (Acting) opportunity for a period of 6 months.

**Eligibility**

**How to Apply**
Applicants are required to provide up to a one-page 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 eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:

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