Executive Assistant to Executive Director of Operations

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**Employment Type**: Permanent Full Time
**Location**: Queanbeyan
**Position Classification**: Health Manager Level 1
**Remuneration**: $84,436.00 - $112,331.00 per annum
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: REQ605150
**Applications Close**: 3 October 2025
**Interview Information**: Scheduled within 10 days of closing

**About the service**
Join Our Team as an Executive Assistant - Empowering Leadership, Driving Impact
Are you passionate about organisation, communication, and making things run smoothly behind the scenes? At NSW Health, our Executive Assistants are the backbone of our leadership teams, providing high-level support, managing schedules, coordinating meetings, and ensuring operations flow seamlessly. Your attention to detail and proactive approach will help leaders stay focused, informed, and effective.
Make a lasting difference by enabling better decisions, stronger collaboration, and a more efficient workplace.

**Support for**
- Working within SNSWLHD
- Sustainable Healthcare: Together towards zero
- Salary packaging options
- Health and Wellbeing benefits including Fitness Passport, and annual Influenza vaccinations
- A team that values your expertise, invests in your development and supports your lifestyle
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**What you'll be doing**
The Executive Assistant provides high level, professional administrative services to support the functioning of the Executive and their Directorate.

**Selection Criteria**
- Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience.
- Well-developed interpersonal, verbal and written communication, consultation and negotiation skills necessary to represent an Executive, gather and share information and build and maintain effective collaborative relationships and teamwork with a diverse range of stakeholders at all levels within the organisation.
- Proven time management skills with the ability to meet deadlines and respond to rapidly changing priorities and demands in a complex and high volume multidisciplinary environment.
- Capacity to produce professional written materials including briefs, plans, analysis, reports and recommendations to inform decision making.
- Demonstrated high level analytical and problem solving skills including the ability to make and facilitate decisions and recommendations across the organisation in the public health environment.
- Proven ability to locate, interpret, work within and communicate relevant processes, legislation, policy and awards.
- Evidence of a current unrestricted drivers’ licence and the ability to maintain. Ability and willingness to drive/travel as the role requires. This may involve driving long distances.

**We look forward to learning more about you and what you can bring to our team**

**Information for applicants**

This is a Category B position. Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive PD2024_015: Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases for Category A positions prior to offer. All new employees must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in the policy.

Southern NSW Local Health District is dedicated to fostering a child-safe environment that respects and upholds the rights of children and young people, aligned with NSW Health’s commitment to implementing the Child Safe Standards. We aim to ensure that children and young people feel safe, supported, and included in their care. All current and prospective staff are expected to prioritise the safety, welfare, and well-being of children and young people, actively working to protect them from harm and abuse.

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