Personal Assistant

**About us**

Beca HunterH2O is the Australian water business of Beca, one of Asia Pacific’s largest independent advisory, design and engineering consultancies. We are a collaborative team of 300+ water sector specialists, who are passionate about delivering technically excellent projects that help build healthy communities and sustainable outcomes throughout urban and regional Australia.

**The Opportunity**

Be part of a motivated and trusted team, dedicated to developing and sharing technical innovation to push boundaries and continually challenge and overcome convention and constraints, to transform our world for the better. Due to our strong business growth, we are seeking the appointment of a Personal Assistant to support our senior team in **Newcastle**.

As one of Australia's most successful independent water industry consultancies, Beca HunterH2O is leading the delivery of some of the country's most varied and challenging water projects, and together with our small company culture, you will have the opportunity to drive these projects from start to finish, steering your professional development along the way.

**About you**

**Qualifications and experience criteria**
- Significant prior experience as a Personal Assistant working for an executive manager or senior management team.
- A high level of written and oral communication skills including using word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software packages such as MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills with a strong attention to detail.
- Ability to use sound judgement, contributing to new ideas and continuous improvement opportunities.
- Ability to develop and maintain stakeholder relationships including responding to stakeholder needs and expectations.
- Ability to use integrity to maintain a high level of confidentiality and professionalism.
- Ability to develop objectives for short term tasks and participate in strategic planning for longer term initiatives.

**What we offer**

A career with Beca will provide you with:

- **Flexibility & Wellbeing**: We recognise that achieving a work-life balance is unique to everyone. Enjoy flexible working options to manage your personal and family priorities, along with dedicated leave for wellbeing and community engagement.
- **Belonging & Ownership**: Join a diverse and inclusive team where collaboration and creativity thrive. Bring your whole self to work and take advantage of unique shareholder opportunities to share in our collective success.
- **Parental Leave**: Take time for what matters most with up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave, inclusive of all genders.
- **Career Growth & Development**: Your growth is our priority Benefit from continuous learning through our training programmes and support for professional accreditation, including pathways to EIANZ/PIA accreditation. Work alongside industry leaders and gain hands-on experience to empower your career potential.

Beca prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture - open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences.

**Who is Beca?**

Beca is one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest employee-owned professional services consultancies. Our team of over 4000 professionals is diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights.

‘Creative people together transforming our world’ is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose - to make everyday better. Our four values - partnership, tenacity, enjoyment and care - sit at the heart of everything we do, reflecting how we work every day with each other and our clients.

At Beca we make everyday better for our clients, our people and our community and your involvement makes it possible. Our size and agility mean you’re not just on the fringes; you’re making a visible difference, partnering to develop and deliver solutions from the ground up.

As a people-focused business, we understand that work-life balance means a lot of different things to different people and that it’s not always easy juggling work with everything else life throws at us. This is why we are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for all opportunities in the Beca team.

If this has sparked your interest, and you’d be interested in a further conversation about how this might align with your career aspirations, then we would love to hear from you
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