About this job
About the Department of Education
The Department of Education is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.
About the School
Camira State School was established in 1974 and has been proudly providing an education for students from Camira and surrounding suburbs for over forty years. Camira is a suburb of Ipswich City located on the western side of Brisbane and approximately 9km East of the Ipswich City centre.
Camira State School is a co-educational school with approximately 650 students currently enrolled across 27 classes from the Preparatory Year to Year 6. We also offer a Pre-Prep Program designed to ease the transition in to Primary Education.
About the Role
As the Administration Officer, you will contribute to the efficient and effective operation and environment of the school by providing a high level of administration support to the Principal, Business Manager and staff. You will perform a range of activities to ensure a high level of communication is maintained; follow set instructions; and have independence to perform a variety of day-to-day services that are routine in nature. However, the role receives regular supervision when undertaking duties that are non-routine in nature.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Front office reception
- Production of documents making use of Microsoft Office application
- Communication with families and visitors via telephone, email and text messaging services
- Record keeping through the OneSchool records
- General office tasks; filing, photocopying, processing goods received, processing mail, stationery management
- Attendance and Absence Procedures; SMS generation and roll marking follow up
- Management of excursions and incursion via QParents platform
- Managing the Parent Teacher online booking system
- Data entry
Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.
Interested? To Apply:
- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
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