About the Organisation

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 7,000 employees working in more than 440 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.   

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the Role

Join our Wollongong Life Without Barriers, Family Based Care team as an Administration Officer on a full-time basis. The role includes administration and reception tasks.

Key Responsibilities

• Reception, answering calls and switchboard management.
• Welcoming and assisting clients or visitors to the office
• Provide administration support to the Area Manager, Family Based Care.
• Schedule appointments, meetings and teleconferences
• Undertake data entry, typing, filing, photocopying, binding and faxing of documents as required
• Invoicing and reporting

Skills & Experience

• High level administrative skills and experience in providing support and assistance to management
• Strong written and oral communication, interpersonal and customer service skills
• Ability to manage sensitive information and maintain a high degree of confidentiality
• Effective time management and organisational skills
• Demonstrated ability in using Microsoft Office suite programs

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).

Benefits

• Opportunity to work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations
• Attractive Remuneration Package with excellent tax benefits and monthly rostered days off
• Permanent, Full Time Opportunity

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact [email protected].

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face to face interview.

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here (https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA).