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Executive Assistant – Group General Managers - Aged Care and Community Services
UnitingCare Queensland (UCQ) provides health and community services to thousands of people every day of the year through its service groups – UnitingCare Health, UnitingCare Community, Blue Care and ARRCS (Australian Regional and Remote Community Services). Our 16,000 staff and 9,000 volunteers care for and support people from all walks of life, including older people, people with a disability, children, families and Indigenous people.
About Blue Care
The vision for 2030 is to become Australia’s most trusted and respected health and community services provider, delivering exceptional values-based care to Queenslanders in every corner of the community, and globally recognised as a leading light in care model innovation for aged care. With a commitment to delivering high-quality, innovative, person-centred aged care services in the home and in the community, Blue Care provides services to thousands of clients daily.
We invite you to be part of this exciting journey!
The Opportunity
The purpose of this role is to provide administrative and secretarial support to two Group General Managers across Aged and Community Services in Southeast Queensland and Regional and Remote services. The Group General Manager is a new position designed to lead Blue Care on its exciting path towards redefining the sector to Take Care Further, in line with our newly developed 2030 Strategy. Based in Brisbane, the Executive Assistant will provide management, facilitation and support for various projects as requested. In addition, the position is pivotal in providing strategic and business process assistance to the wider organisation.
Accountabilities include:
- Diary management including arranging internal and external appointments and any associated travel and accommodation required
- Prepare Board/meeting papers, including finalise meeting papers, prepares agendas, records, and produces minutes of meetings, reviews supporting documents, identifies and takes action on action items arising from meetings
- Organise functions, workshops and meetings
- Extensive report, business papers, correspondence and presentation preparation
- Responding to telephone enquiries - first point of contact
- Email and telephone management
- Working closely with other EAs to ensure adequate coverage across executives
Your background
The successful candidate will ideally demonstate the following skills and experience:
- Previous experience as an Executive Assistant at a senior management level
- Extensive Microsoft Suite skills and knowledge;
- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage competing priorities
- Ability to compose and present correspondence of a non-specialist nature
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build and maintain relations across all levels
This position will offer you the opportunity to impact the new direction for UCQ. You will be rewarded with empowering career opportunities and a competitive remuneration package.
UCQ offers a variety of benefits including a values based work environment, discounted products and services, attractive salary packaging, career development and lifestyle benefits.
• Diary management including arranging internal and external appointments and any associated travel and accommodation required;
• Prepare Board/meeting papers, including finalise meeting papers, prepares agendas, records and produces minutes of meetings, reviews supporting documents, identifies and takes action on action items arising from meetings;
• Organise functions, workshops and meetings;
• Extensive report, business papers, correspondence and presentation preparation;
• Responding to telephone enquiries – first point of contact;
• Email and telephone management;
• Working closely with other EAs to ensure adequate coverage across executives
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