Administration Officer

About the Department of Education

The Department of Education is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.

About the Role

Dandiiri Community Library is looking for an Administrative Officer. In this role, you will contribute to the effective and efficient administrative management of the library by providing relevant and timely support to the Senior Project Officer and Principal Advisor. You will work within existing guidelines to provide basic resolution of problems by reference to established procedures.

Administration roles play a crucial part in ensuring that daily operations run smoothly and effectively. As such, the library requires capable, organised and efficient administrative staff who are responsive to a continual range of demands and needs from both internal and external sources.

Roles and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Undertake the day-to-day library duties and responsibilities, including returning and borrowing of library resources, story time with Kindy and playgroups providing a cultural lens for non - Indigenous staff accessing resources.
Support the library manager in the operational requirements, including working with school-based staff and community to ensure cultural safety
Co-ordinate the creation and maintenance of procedures and documentation relating to library network support and services supporting training will be provided.

Mandatory Requirements for and Identified Role:
It is a genuine occupational requirement for Identified roles that the position be filled by an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander person as set out in Section 7 of the Anti Discrimination Act 1991 for the purposes contained in Section 25 of that Act.

Verification of Aboriginality and/or Torres Strait Island heritage

For administrative purposes, in relation to an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander identified role, an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person is a person who identifies as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person and is either:
of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent;
accepted as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person by the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community in which he or she lives.

By definition a person who is not an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cannot be employed (on any basis) to perform the duties of an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander identified role.

Applicants to this position may have to provide confirmation of their Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander heritage. Requesting proof of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander heritage from applicants helps to make sure that this intention is honoured.

How to Apply

Please attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant previous work history); and

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.

When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.

Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).

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