Executive Assistant - Strategy & Corporate Affairs

• C level role within leading industry fund
• Hybrid environment - combining work from home and in the office
• Support the Chief Strategy and Corporate Affairs Officer & Leadership Team 

Established in 1988 Rest is one of Australias largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.

We support nearly two million members with around $86 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super theyre more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours we want to Be Daring Keep it Simple Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

This is a key broad skilled administrative level role within the Strategy & Corporate Affairs Group focused primarily on assisting the Leadership Team and Chief Strategy & Corporate Affairs Officer with the day-to-day administrative support of the teams including Legal Communications Public Policy & Strategy.  Your role will contribute to the development of the team culture and representing the Brand of the Strategy & Corporate Affairs Team positively throughout Rest.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Provide general administrative support to the leadership team and Executive 
• Calendar management and co-ordination for the Chief Strategy & Corporate Affairs Officer and on-demand calendar support for up to 4-5 members of the Leadership Team.
• Attending team meetings preparing papers meeting agendas recording minutes and deploying actions.
• Co-ordinate meetings and organise offsites for the leadership team including venues and agendas collating materials and noting actions and minutes.
• Administrative support for Leadership team including travel bookings invoice upload and reconciliation document management and catering
• Assist with the coordination of projects and people across the teams new initiatives and reporting requirements.
• As requested assist with key communications reporting data requests or packs for the Leadership team.
• Encourage and coordinate member participation in learning and development (L&D) programs to improve employee skills knowledge and high performance.
• Contribute positively to the running of the teams

Qualifications :

• Tertiary education in relevant discipline or equivalent experience desirable

Required experience understanding or credentials including:

• Exposure to supporting a legal team (advantageous)
• Event support (advantageous)
• Experience of working in a regulated environment (advantageous)
• Superior attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Demonstrated administrative background in a fast-paced environment.
• Executive and senior leader stakeholder management experience
• Project co-ordination experience
• Excellent communication and writing skills
• Experience meeting and managing others to firm deadlines.
• Proficient in MS office suite
• Advanced PowerPoint and Words skills.
• Experience using Jira Confluence MS Teams and Adobe Software ServiceNow
• Proactive and service orientated mindset
• Well-developed problem-solving skills
• A team player that builds relationship to influence the right outcomes

Additional Information :

Benefits

Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include:

• Personal and professional development opportunities 
• Flexible hybrid working work to suit your lifestyle (must be based in Australia) 
• Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave 
• Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave 
• Meeting free breaks (Rest Stops) 
• Income Protection Insurance 
• Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rests values and behaviours) 

If you share our values believe you can help make a difference for our members and want to be part of a leading superannuation fund with a Super culture please click Apply Now.

Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity equity and inclusion - where people feel welcome safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.

We value the different backgrounds lived experiences and abilities our diverse team brings. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all ages cultural backgrounds faiths gender identities sexual orientations and thinking styles. This includes people with disability neurodiverse individuals Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples and those with disrupted work history due to career or other breaks.

Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.

*Funds under management as at 30 June 2023. Rest is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.

Rest will review applications prior to the closing date and may close the role earlier 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time