On any given day Community Corrections is responsible for supervising approximately 18,000 individuals in the community. Approximately 3,300 of these are Indigenous and 3,200 are female. Community Corrections is divided into seven regions with 34 district offices and 133 reporting centres.

As part of QCS' commitment to reducing the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in custody, QCS has permanent Community Corrections reporting offices in a number of remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities including Mornington Island, Normanton, Doomadgee, Thursday Island, Weipa, Aurukun, Cooktown, Palm Island and Woorabinda. Community Corrections staff aim to protect the community and reduce re-offending by supervising individuals in the community in which they live and encouraging them to adopt more pro-social attitudes and behaviours.

Job details

In this role you will contribute to the effective operation of the district office by providing administration support.

The primary accountabilities of the Administration Officer include:

• Manage and provide a variety of administrative functions and quality, confidential administrative support including diary management, organising meetings, book travel arrangements, answer general enquiries at reception and screen phone calls
• Provide support to staff on administrative issues and assist with the preparation of memorandums, reports and correspondence checking for formatting and grammatical errors and amend where necessary
• Perform opening and closing procedure
• Maintain Human Resources functions including checking timesheets, submitting leave forms, assist with commencement paperwork for new employees and submission of documentation related to work cover claims
• Provide basic training to administrative staff on office systems
• Undertake procurement and financial processing duties including banking as required and manage petty cash and reconcile as directed
• Register incoming and outgoing correspondence and maintain mail register
• Maintain facilities and equipment, including performing stock-takes, maintenance of asset register and management of car fleet
• Liaise with internal and external agencies as required
• Site administration
• Maintain the Agency electronic recording systems
• Ensure the confidentiality and security of all files and documents and provide appropriate access to the files by relevant staff and approved external agencies
• Assist with monitoring and maintaining the Integrated Offender Management System (IOMS) to ensure accurate statistics are available.

The role description provides the minimum requirements for the role. The incumbent may be required to undertake other duties as required outside of these primary accountabilities.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

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Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• 658382-25-Role Profile (PDF, 240KB)
  
  
  658382-25-Applicant Information Guide (PDF, 940KB)