About Us

Yalari's Mission is to educate and empower Indigenous children from regional, rural and remote communities to bring about generational change.

Our Vision is to provide trusted, quality educational opportunities for Indigenous children to achieve positive outcomes for themselves and their families and make a valuable contribution as Australians. It takes a whole community to educate a child, and Yalari brings together stakeholders who provide the financial and in-kind support that enable us to create educational opportunities and outcomes for Indigenous children. To learn more about Yalari visit our website www.yalari.org.

The Role

This newly created role will support the Managing Director and Business Manager as follows:

• Manage and facilitate the scheduling of the Managing Director and Business Manager’s diaries, activity and appointments, including preparation for various meetings and commitments. This will also include managing travel requirements.
• Manage the internal policy and procedure documentation, including appropriate version history and systems.
• Coordinating board meetings, including assistance in report preparation and administration.
• Assist the Business Manager with compliance based corporate secretarial work for the Yalari group companies.
• Manage all communication channels for the Managing Director and Business Manager and determine priorities and actions required to coordinate responses.
• Assist the Business Manager maintain management systems and processes.

Skills & Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Business or Business Administration.
• Previous experience (minimum 3 years) in a personal/executive assistant role is essential.
• High level skills and experience with Microsoft Office programs and experience in managing databases
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate with a diverse group of people
• Highly organised
• Self-motivated with a positive ‘can do’ attitude
• Ability to work to tight timeframes
• Proven communication, collaboration and negotiation skills
• Superior writing and editing skills
• Proven Team player – responsive, flexible and approachable
• Experience working with Indigenous people and/or an empathy for Indigenous concerns.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.