• Full time ongoing position
• Salary range: $98,902 - $123,624 plus super plus salary packaging
• Up to $15,900 in salary packaging and hybrid WFH & office model

About the role
In this role you will provide high-quality senior executive support to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and are responsible for supporting and managing a range of strategic and confidential issues, often in short timeframes while handling competing demands.

The senior executive assistant is responsible for proactively managing the CEO's diary, liaising with key senior internal and external stakeholders, and implementing best practice workflow management to ensure efficient and timely support to the CEO.

By providing leadership and mentorship to the executive assistant group, the role ensures consistency of practice across the organisation. The role assists with projects and other activities that are led by the office of the CEO (OCEO), as required.

This role is based at our Melbourne CBD office on Wurundjeri Country.

About you
As our ideal candidate, you will possess:

• Strong interpersonal skills, including tact, diplomacy, and discretion for maintaining confidentiality, exercising sound judgment, and effectively collaborating with stakeholders at all levels.
• Attention to detail and high organisational skills to manage competing work priories and meet tight deadlines.
• Ability for high flexibility of changing priorities and adapt to changing circumstances.
• Excellent communication skills to influence and negotiate with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Proven senior experience providing high level executive and administrative support (mandatory).

Don't meet every requirement? At VLA, we understand that your work and life experiences can be just as valuable. If you're excited about this role but your CV doesn't align perfectly with our job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or one of our many other opportunities.

About Victoria Legal Aid
We provide legal representation to those who need it most. With over 1300 staff employed in 16 offices across Victoria, we help people with their legal problems by providing information, advice and education with a focus on the prevention and early resolution of legal problems.

Our clients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds and foster a work culture that's inclusive as well as diverse. Your unique ideas and perspectives are valued so that we best represent the people we serve.

As part of our activities to encourage inclusiveness, we have several employee diversity networks. Each of these networks provide employees with an opportunity to connect with similar colleagues from across the organisation, build a support network with each other, work with our organisation to promote equality, diversity, and inclusion and to help inform future policies, services, and activities.

Employee benefits

• Focus on work-life balance including flexible working arrangements
• Hybrid work from home & office model
• Training and professional development opportunities
• Excellent salary packaging options including General Expenses up to $15,900, Meals & Entertainment up to $2,650 and Novated Leasing
• Opportunity to join Myki Commuter Club(and salary package the cost)
• Supportive team environment in modern offices (including free gym and end-of-trip facilities at our CBD office)
• Access to discounted Private Health Insurance

How to apply
To be considered for this role, please submit your current resume and a completed candidate application form (listed within the file attachments).

If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process or need an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with our team.

For further information, please review the attached position description or contact Sejal Amin, Executive Adviser, Policy and Projects on (03) 9269 0576 or recruitment@vla.vic.gov.au.

No agency applications will be accepted.

Applications close by 11.59pm on Thursday 20 March 2025.

Other relevant information
It is a requirement that staff attend for office-based days at their primary work location. In line with this requirement, interstate applications will be considered only where the candidate is able and willing to relocate to Victoria, unless part of a border community.

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