• Backfill contract (12 months)
• 38 hours per week
• Access to generous salary packaging benefits and professional development opportunities

• Supportive and collaborative team environment
• Ringwood location

ABOUT EDVOS

We are a leading specialist family violence service working with victim survivors in Eastern Melbourne. We also do prevention and education work nationally.

Family violence can take many forms such as intimate partner violence, child abuse, elder abuse, carer abuse, parental abuse and sibling abuse. Our services are directed towards women, children, pets and other animals, who are responding to any form of family violence.

To find out more about EDVOS services, please visit www.edvos.org.au.

About this Opportunity

The Executive Assistant (EA) is responsible for providing high-level administrative support to the General Manager Services and Impact (GMSI) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and will assist in ensuring both areas run smoothly and efficiently.

This is a role that requires a detail oriented and organised person who can be proactive in taking the lead to support the Executive team. The role requires the ability to deal appropriately with confidential information and to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment.

Essential to your success

• Significant experience in administration and knowledge of administration practices
• Strong interpersonal and client/stakeholder management skills with and high level written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritise tasks, coordinate and oversee multiple tasks and priorities whilst working to strict deadlines
• Ability to take initiative in applying work practices and procedures
• Demonstrated experience and understanding of the social and gendered context of domestic/family violence
• Demonstrated experience in an Executive Assistant role, providing support to Executives and/or Senior Managers
• High level of proficiency with technology platforms including superior working knowledge of the Microsoft office suite

A copy of the position accountabilities and key selection criteria can be accessed by downloading the full Position Description available below or at our website at www.edvos.org.au/get-involved.

Salary for this position will be aligned with SCHADS Level 5 + legislated super.

Why work with us?

• We are a welcoming, supportive and inclusive team, driven by a shared vision of a community free from violence where everyone is safe.
• We believe in lifelong learning and support our people to engage in professional development.
• We embrace flexibility and hybrid working - whilst we believe some time together in person is critical, we know balancing life and work is important
• We have great benefits like parental leave, EAP and wellbeing programs

Want to know more?

Reach out to Fiona Kelly, Chief Financial Officer at [email protected] or 0400 738 748 or Janene Evans, GM Services and Impact at [email protected], or call 0466 748 880, using the subject line: Executive Assistant enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.

Our commitment to safety, equity, diversity and inclusion.

We believe that the unique contributions of all our people at EDVOS create our success. To ensure that our culture and our services continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we encourage applications from the LGBTIQA+ community, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and people of all abilities.

Due to the gendered nature of family violence, much of our workforce is women, though this is not a requirement for all roles. We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.

EDVOS is a child-focused and child safe organisation and is committed to promoting and protecting the safety and interests of children. All appointments with EDVOS are subject to a police records check, working with children check and reference checks.