Executive Assistant To The Dvc (indigenous Australians)

• $85,857 to $92,964
• Fixed-term, full-time
• Gardens Point (hybrid option available)

Who are we looking for?

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is seeking a Executive Assistant to the DVC (Indigenous Australians) to join , Indigenous Strategy, Chancellery Division.

We are seeking applications for a highly motivated and dedicated Executive Assistant to work within the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Australians). This exciting role is available immediately until 30 November 2023, with a possibility of extension.In this position, you’ll provide high quality, effective, efficient and professional executive and administrative support to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and other members of the team. To thrive in this role, you will be someone who enjoys taking the initiative to provide excellent service and support across a broad range of activities each day.

We’re offering this role as a hybrid position as part of QUT’s commitment to embracing the opportunities created by a more virtual and connected world.

Real world impact

QUT is a major Australian university with a global outlook and a ‘real world’ focus. We are an ambitious and collaborative institution that seeks to equip our students and graduates with the skills they will need in an increasingly disrupted and challenged world.

About the Chancellery Division

Chancellery Division is responsible for strategy, including Indigenous strategy, government relations and policy, assurance and risk, international, marketing and communications, and business development. The Chancellery Division is led by the Vice-Chancellor and President.

What you need to succeed

You will demonstrate:

1. Education, training and/or experience equivalent to completion of a degree with combined relevant work experience, or extensive experience in an Executive Assistant capacity.
2. Highly developed interpersonal skills including the ability to connect and collaborate with a diverse range of people at all levels in a professional manner, often under pressure, while maintaining appropriate confidentiality.
3. Advanced written communication skills including the ability to draft complex correspondence, submissions, reports, emails, meeting agendas and minutes with a high degree of accuracy.
4. Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including Elders, with a proven ability to build and maintain strong effective working relationships within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
5. Highly developed digital literacy skills including experience using Microsoft Office, electronic records management systems and databases.
6. Highly developed planning skills, including the ability to multi-task, prioritise, coordinate workflow and meet deadlines with excellent attention to detail.

Careers at QUT

Our culture is vibrant, inspiring and challenging. It’s a world where like-minds come together with a commitment to making a real world difference, no matter what the area of expertise.

Beyond personal and professional fulfilment, a career at QUT brings a broad range of tangible benefits. QUT is a high quality and flexible organisation that is proud of its excellent employment conditions which include but are not limited to:

• Parental leave provisions
• Study support encompassing leave and financial assistance
• Comprehensive professional development
• Salary Packaging

 

Reference number:  23265

Term:  Fixed-term, full-time basis till 30 November 2023, Gardens Point Campus

Remuneration:  Total remuneration range: $101,605 to $110,015 pa (HEW6) (inclusive of $85,857 to $92,964 pa salary; 17% superannuation; and 17.5% recreation leave loading)

Location:  Gardens Point (hybrid option available)

Job opens:  13-Mar-2023

Applications Close:  27-Mar-2023 at 11.30pm

Open to: Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people. For this position it is a genuine occupational requirement that it be filled by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person as permitted by and arguable under sections 25, 104 and 105 of the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act (1991).

At QUT, our values reflect what we believe in, and what is important to us as an organisation. They capture our strengths, our distinctiveness and sit alongside the priorities outlined in our QUT Connections, and guide our decisions and actions.

QUT aims to inspire and shape the future with talented students and staff from , united by our core values of Ambition, Curiosity, Integrity, Inclusiveness,  Innovation and Academic freedom.