At C&K, our purpose is to make a positive impact on children’s lives. It’s what we’ve been doing for more than 115 years. Through evidence-based thinking, hard work and true compassion, we’ve built a trusted reputation as Queensland’s leading provider of early childhood education. And as a child safe organisation, we put children's safety and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do, creating nurturing spaces where children can learn, explore, play and grow. 

To provide high level administrative support to Regional Managers and operation teams within C&K to ensure tasks are completed to a high standard.

• Manage the team members schedules and diaries.

• Manage all travel and accommodation arrangements for the team.

• Provide administrative support to the Regional Manager (RM) and other meetings, including

when necessary, recording and distributing minutes.

• Prepare meeting materials, briefs and undertake filing.

• Review and summarise key documents, reports and correspondence.

• Manage credit card purchases, receipts and invoice and payment requisitions.

• Assist in the organisation of internal events.

• Screen requests for appointments with the RM to effectively time manage and match people

to purpose. 

• Ensure that work is prioritised and managed in a systematic way to achieve deadlines for

approvals and sign off.

• Prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly reports when requested.

• Contribute to a team environment, working collaboratively in sharing and generating ideas.

• Participate in professional development including self-directed learning and required training.

• Demonstrate knowledge of occupational health & safety, fire and emergency evacuation

procedures and equal employment opportunity and comply with associated organisational

policies.

• Maintain filing and archiving systems.

• Coordinate phone calls, emails and correspondence, answer queries or direct to appropriate

person and escalate concerns according to priority

Demonstrate willingness and commitment to work within C&K values and promote these values to

team members.

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in an office administration capacity.

• Demonstrated excellent research and report writing skills.

• Tertiary qualifications in a business-related field highly desirable.

• Advanced knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite of products with the ability to learn new software

applications.

• Highly developed interpersonal, communication and listening skills.

• Ability to work proactively in respect to client, staff and business needs.

• Able to work autonomously, problem solve as well as in a team environment.

• Adaptable and willing to accept challenges.

• Ability to set and achieve objectives/deadlines.

• A demonstrated commitment to continuing professional and personal development.

• Ability to maintain a very high level of confidentiality and integrity. 

• Ability to work flexible hours when necessary.

• Understanding and interest in early childhood education and care and demonstrated ability to

operate in complex policy environment highly regarded.

The successful applicant will be required to:

Travel, as necessary. 

Hold a positive notice (Blue card) working with children check; and a current driver’s license.

The information above is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the responsibilities of the job described. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job. C&K is a growing organisation; to support the vision for the business it is expected that the incumbent will evolve the position over time in alignment with the dynamic nature of the business and the region.

Kedron, QLD