Executive Assistant

At Tennis Australia, we’re creating a more playful world through tennis - for everyone.

From grassroots to Grand Slams, tennis brings people together, inspires communities, and builds champions on and off the court.

We’re a team of imaginative and passionate people who believe in the power of sport to make a difference. If you're ready to help us serve up real impact, we’d love to hear from you.

About the role

Step into a pivotal role at the heart of our Events team as the Executive Assistant to the Chief Events Officer. This position offers the chance to work closely with senior leadership, providing high-level support that keeps our Events team running seamlessly. If you’re a natural organiser with exceptional communication skills and a talent for thriving under pressure, you’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact while helping deliver world-class events.

In this role you will be responsible for:

- Act as the executive point of contact, communicating with stakeholders and actioning requests to coordinate communications and ensure the achievement of objectives and timeframes.
- Support the Chief Events Officer to manage their workload, including prioritisation, scheduling and diary management
- Prepare communications, reports, presentations and correspondence for the Chief Events Officer ensuring comprehensiveness, accuracy and timeliness of information
- Provide administration support across travel, expense reconciliation and PO generation
- Provide support the broader Events team, facilitating meetings, administration and the communication

About you

To be successful in this role you will:

- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills
- Superior writing skills, with the ability to seamlessly correspond on behalf of your Executive
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
- Ability to flex with changing priorities, whilst maintaining a positive solution focussed outlook
- High level of initiative and process thinking to ensure continuous improvement of processes
- Advanced administrative IT literacy in Microsoft Office, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel
- Availability to work varied hours in January during the AO and Summer of Tennis events
- Naturally collaborative, you will enjoy being part of a fun and inclusive team
- You must hold (or be willing to obtain) a current Police Check and Working with Children Check
- Hold (or be willing to obtain) a current Police Check and Working with Children Check

What’s to love?
- Career development with a range of formal education and on the job training opportunities
- Tickets to the Australian Open plus Superbox tickets to events at Rod Laver & Melbourne Arena
- Monthly health & wellbeing activities with access to CorePlus Pilates
- Onsite gym, tennis facilities & free onsite car parking
- Salary packaging & a range of discounts from our sponsorship partners
- Attractive leave benefits - with up to 26 weeks of paid parental leave for all primary caregivers and Sorry Business and Ceremonial Leave for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees
- We are proud to be recognised as an employer of choice for women by WORK180

To Apply

- Tennis Australia is committed to providing a safe environment for all tennis participants, including children and young people. It is essential everyone involved with delivering tennis in Australia understands their responsibility in relation to child-safety._

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