Expression of Interest: Administration Assistants, NT (Multiple Locations)The AEC is an inclusive and flexible workplace where our employee's individuality and contributions are valued.
We understand the importance of balancing your work and personal life.
We help our employees with this through a range of flexible working options and ensuring a supported environment.
To assist our people, the AEC provides a suite of comprehensive and holistic employee assistance and wellbeing programs.
We want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the Australian community.
We have supportive diversity networks across the agency.
We value the unique qualities, attributes, skills and experiences held by our people.
The AEC believes in continuous learning and professional development to assist you in achieving your career goals, offering our people a range of learning and development opportunities.
The Opportunities The AEC relies on a large workforce of Administration Assistants to help complete the significant volume of work required in maintaining an accurate electoral roll and to plan and deliver electoral events.
Duties performed include:
Operational planningOffice support and materials handlingThese roles are located all around Australia, as we are hiring for all 151 federal electoral divisions with around 300+ jobs available nationally.
Working environments will vary depending on the location, but may range from small offices, larger regional working offices, state offices, and warehouse environments.
If you believe you have the ability to thrive in a fast-paced but rewarding generalist office role, we are keen to hear from you.
No prior work experience is required for these roles, and we strongly encourage tertiary students and people from diverse backgrounds to apply.
While you will have flexibility in terms of your availability, as we approach an electoral event there will be significantly more work available, which may include full-time hours, working on select weekends, or a potential for overtime work.
These office roles will take on more operational responsibilities in helping to deliver the event and are critical in providing support to our temporary election event workforce employees.
Available work locations in the Northern Territory are Alice Springs, Katherine, and Darwin.
To excel you'll have: Strong customer service skills, willingness to assist internal AEC staff, members of the public, and other external stakeholders.Ability to undertake data entry and office administrative tasks, with a high attention to detail.Ability to work effectively with a positive attitude and resilience in a team environment.Organisational skills with the ability to multi-task and prioritise responsibilities to meet deadlines.Ability to accurately follow and perform work to established processes and procedures.Sound written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to respond to emails from a variety of customers and stakeholders.Basic computer literacy with experience in using Microsoft Office software suite; any Microsoft Excel proficiency will be highly regarded.AEC employees must be Australian citizens.Any person who is, and seen to be active in political affairs, and intends to publicly carry on this activity, may compromise the strict neutrality of the AEC and cannot be considered.Applicants are required to consent to, undergo, obtain and maintain a character clearance.Applicants are required to consent to, undergo, obtain and maintain the security clearance required for this role.Note: This is an expression of interest and there are no guarantees of employment.
The AEC will assess and contact applicants as per operational requirements when delivering an electoral event.This is a casual opportunity, part-time hours with the possibility of full-time hours subject to operational requirements when delivering an electoral event.Application Close: Friday 28 February 2025, 11:59pm AEDT
If you are interested in a career with the AEC, please visit our website.
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