Staff and families at Blue Gum Community School love being part of a small nurturing community which offers a wide range of educational services - playgroup (birth-2 years); preschool (3-5 years); primary & secondary school (5-16 years); after-school and school holiday programs (5-12 years). Like a small country town, everyone knows each other's strengths as well as challenges. While our students and educators are at the heart of our work, the school's front office is the keystone - playing a pivotal role in supporting everyone and everything to be successful.

An unexpected family move northwards has created an immediate vacancy for a School Receptionist & Office Admin person. Currently, this position is part-time (3 days per week - Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday - 8am-4pm). However, the position may extend to full-time in the future (or for an outstanding applicant seeking full-time work).

There are 3 key elements to the position:

(i) Reception: being the welcoming ‘front face’ of the school, for phone/email/in-person enquiries, internally and externally;

(ii) Tech-savvy: high level of digital literacy required to maintain accurate school records (hard copy and digital data); &

(iii) Maintenance: following up on school maintenance matters to ensure prompt attention.

Our ideal candidate is a wonderful people person, who relishes new challenges and enjoys working as part of a small team! Experience working in an educational setting is highly desirable. You will job-share the Receptionist role; manage maintenance matters; and understudy the enrolment process. Every day is different, whether you're reponding to phone calls or emails or visitors or 101 questions from students. Bored? Never!

Here's our checklist of the professional and personal qualities you'll need in this job:

warm welcoming friendly manner as the front-line person;

diplomatic, easy-going and strong ability to work with all types of people;

committed to maintaining confidentiality;

computer-literate, including fluency in achieving optimal outcomes with Excel;

a passion for data and skilled at manipulating data, such as creating/maintaining data bases;

competent written communicator;

use own initiative, rather than wait to be told what to do;

solutions-focused problem-solver;

think outside the box and relish opportunities to try something new;

happy to learn from mistakes;

super-organised - love creating order out of chaos;

willing to raise concerns directly and honestly, rather than complain to colleagues behind the scenes; &

when all else fails, great sense of humour!

Immediate start preferred.

For more information about our unique small community school - see our website www.bluegum.act.edu.au .

Please answer the following questions (genuine responses please; AI-written applications are obvious, so will be immediately rejected):

Why do you want to work at Blue Gum Community School?

Share examples of your experiences working as a School Receptionist &/or Office Administrator - the highs and the lows!

Explain why you describe yourself as tech-savvy; give examples to demonstrate which IT systems you are proficient in.

What questions do you have for Blue Gum?

Are you an Australian resident?

Please include CV & 2 refs.

NB: Blue Gum does NOT offer Sponsorships.