Administrative Officer

Join the team which promotes council's culture of safety and wellbeing. If you enjoy supporting staff, understanding how regulation guides our work processes and promotion of key projects this is the role for you. This WHS Administration role is located in Tweed Heads and reports to the Coordinator WHS. This role offers diversity in tasks and activities, ranging from the fundamental administration requirements through to supporting project delivery. The role is an integral part of the team providing a broad range of administrative support to Work Health & Safety, Health and Wellbeing and Injury Management.

**Responsibilities include**:

- maintain all WHS registers, and databases
- generate WHS reports and collate data to produce reporting metrics
- contribute to the delivery of WHS projects and health and wellbeing programs
- provide support to safety committees and corporate meetings by generating reports, agendas and minutes.

**What's on offer**:

- a base salary ranging from $1,068.32 per week with competency-based increments up to $1,224.01 per week, plus 10.5% super
- 35 hour week, 9 day fortnight
- training and development opportunities
- flexible work options for a healthy work/life balance
- generous employment conditions (we have too many to list - **click here** for more).

**We are seeking**:
A solution focused individual who can work as part of team, supporting a range of stakeholders, building trust and respect. You will be a clear and open communicator with exceptional organisation and time management and strong interpersonal skills.

Other skills and experience:

- experience in general administration, reporting and document management
- understanding of the WHS and / or Injury Management function (desirable)
- strong written and verbal communication skills with excellent attention to detail
- advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.

**About us**:

- Located on the picturesque far North Coast of NSW, bordering the Gold Coast.
- The Tweed is a vibrant, diverse location offering a lifestyle near the water, in a rainforest or on a farm.
- Join an **employer of choice**. Professionals Australia (Local Government Engineers’ Association) has named Council the 2021 Employer of Choice for our great employment practices within NSW local government.

**Where it's located**:
This position is based in Murwillumbah, and can be directed to work from any Council work site.

**Position closes**:
**Click here to view the Position Description**

Click here for more information on the Recruitment Process

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**Pre-Employment Screening**:
Tweed Shire Council conducts pre-employment assessments as part of its recruitment process.

Job offers are not made until screening has been completed. Tweed Shire Council uses third-party providers to undertake:

- Background screening - verifies that the information you have provided throughout the recruitment process is true and correct. Click here for more information.

**How To Apply**:
You may wish to prepare your responses in a Word document. You can then COPY and PASTE your answers from Word into the below fields:

- Have your Resume document ready to go.
- Fill out all questions below. Click 'Next'. For tips on how to address the selection criteria, click here
- You'll then be prompted to attach your resume and other documents (if applicable). Click 'Next'.

**If you'd like to COPY and PASTE selection criteria fields into a separate Word document to work on over time, please find them listed below**:
**Essential**:

- Certificate IV in Administration, Work Health and Safety or Human Resources, plus relevant work experience
- Demonstrated competence in general administrative and clerical tasks such as telephone/reception skills, record keeping, photocopying, production, retrieval, manipulation and storage of documents
- Demonstrated ability to perform independent research and prepare simple reports
- Demonstrated competence in electronic minute taking.

**Desirable**:

- Familiarity with and experience in WHS within an organisational context
- WorkCover General Construction Induction.

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