• Come join our team as we reopen the Very Special Kids House
• Permanent Part Time Vacancy (3 days per fortnight)
• $44.76 per hour plus NFP salary packaging and super

At Very Special Kids, we nurture and foster a culture where our team is empowered, supported and safe through the process of caring for children and families. As part of our diverse, expert team you will have access to education and training to enhance your personal and professional development; expert specialist resources; hybrid working models and the well-being support you need to make a bigger impact in the lives of children and their families.

Very Special Kids house and head office is located at our Malvern site, and we have fantastic opportunity for a Payroll Officer to join our team. Our new state-of-the-art hospice (including hydro-therapy pool) due to open mid-year will be a world class facility to support the complex needs of the children and young people in our care.

About Very Special Kids:

At Very Special Kids, we believe that all children and young people have the right to a quality of life, no matter how long or short their life may be. We are a highly respected organisation with circa 100 employees and over 600 volunteers who provide essential, free-of-charge, palliative care services for children and young people living with a life-limiting condition. Very Special Kids provides specialist services for the whole family, including counselling, peer support, bereavement support and respite or end of life care at Victoria’s only hospice for children and young people.

The Payroll Officer is responsible for:

• Ensuring timely and accurate processing of end-to-end payroll on a fortnightly cycle
• Responding and liaising with employees regarding wage and salary queries in a timely manner
• Ensuring our payroll system is appropriately updated with relevant wage rates and allowances in line with relevant awards and enterprise agreements.
• Maintaining payroll records for existing employees as well as new starters and terminations, including tax calculations
• Preparing payroll reporting as well as other ad hoc reports as required

This is an autonomous role, supported by our General Manager Business & Finance and working closely with our General Manager People & Culture and managers across the business. Working hours are flexible for the right candidate in considering our payroll cycle you would need to be available Monday and Tuesday each fortnight for payroll processing and reporting.

Very Special Kids offers its employees a unique and rewarding environment including a supportive team, beautiful setting conveniently located to shops, parking and transport in Malvern, salary packaging, health & wellbeing initiatives, and targeted individual development plans.

At Very Special Kids, our goal is for our workforce to reflect the diverse community we serve. We continually seek to employ people of any gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, with a disability, Aboriginal Australians and varied cultural backgrounds. If this sounds like you, please take a look at the position description on our website www.vsk.org.au and below.

Very Special Kids is committed to providing a child-safe environment and requires all staff to have Working with Children Check, Police Record Checks, evidence to demonstrate vaccination against COVID-19 and seasonal flu vaccinations.