May 2025

Career Opportunity: Executive Assistant
Location: West Perth

Employment type: Part time (hours negotiable); flexible office and remote work

About the sector

Impact investment and social enterprise are amongst the fastest growing industry sectors in the world. As Australia comes to grips with complex challenges from Closing the Gap to climate change to economic resilience and housing availability, impact investors look to explicitly combine financial and social objectives in a new way of doing capitalism.

About Impact Seed

Founded in 2015, Impact Seed is WA’s leading market builder for impact investment, measurement and social enterprise. We are in the business of systems-change finance and entrepreneurship, with a range of programs to build social enterprise capacity, open up access to capital for social and First Nations enterprises, and advise governments and businesses on how to optimise their social investment strategies and outcomes.

Our diverse, highly capable team of 8 professionals is looking to augment our practice with an Executive Assistant to manage a wide range of administrative, finance, resource planning and other support needs.
About the role

Impact Seed is looking for an adaptable, organised and proactive Executive Assistant to support the organisation to run with greater focus and efficiency. The successful candidate will work closely with Executive Director (Investment) to ensure we have well-functioning business systems, good logistics and production support for our team, and effective resource planning and management.

In particular, the Executive Officer will:

Administer finance and payroll systems

Help produce client and public communications with impact

Ensure other office infrastructure is fit-for-purposes, including IT needs

Assist the team in workflow management and planning

Assist in developing Board and funder reports, and facilitate meetings

Organise external workshops and other events

Depending on interest, capabilities and time: scope to undertake additional tasks, such as research, business development, marketing, communications, and policy & procedure development.

Desired skillset / selection criteria:

Confidence with finance and organisational systems, including Xero and Office365 applications

A proactive, highly organised professional mindset, able to adapt to a broad range of tasks and priorities

Document / graphic design and production ability a strong plus

Experience or demonstrated proficiency with basic finance and IT administration functions

Clear and accurate communication verbally and in writing

Experience in a social enterprise, philanthropic or finance setting beneficial but not required

Remuneration and terms:

· Part-time role of approximately 0.5 FTE, with specifics open to negotiation. (eg school hours roster, or 2-3 days per week). Flexible and family-friendly work environment, including working from home arrangements.

· Salary of $80K plus super per annum (pro rata); negotiable depending on skill set and experience

· Salary packaging available, as Impact Seed is a registered charity and PBI.

· We actively promote gender and cultural diversity in our hiring and service provision.

Please address ALL selection criteria above in a cover letter and c.v. sent to [email protected]