The Administration Officer at Laidley State High School supports daily school operations across finance, human resources and facilities management, including staff recruitment and administration, financial transactions, budget reviews and workforce records.

The role also coordinates maintenance, asset management and facility hire, supports compliance with departmental policies and legislation, and identifies opportunities to improve administrative processes and service delivery. This position is being offered in a Temporary Part-Time capacity (0.83FTE), 60 hours per fortnight.

Job details

About us:

Located in the scenic Lockyer Valley, roughly midway between Ipswich and Toowoomba, Laidley State High School is a welcoming rural campus serving around 700 students with a tight-knit team of over 90 staff. The school boasts modern, two‑storey facilities—including Trade and Creative Arts precincts with engineering, manual arts, music, and film studios—creating a vibrant environment for educators to spark real-world learning and vocational pathways.

Laidley State High School prides itself on how it supports our teaching staff with a wide range of support staff to ensure that all compliance needs are met for our students. Our school services the attendance compliance through two staff members that own their student attendance data, one attendance officer for Year 7-9 and one attendance officer for Year 10-12. We are filling the vacancy for the attendance officer role in year 10-12. This role also caretakes responsibilities with staff absences. The office harbours a sense of belonging with anyone that comes into contact with the office. 

Your opportunity:

As the Administration Officer you may undertake work across a broad range of corporate service activities, including human resource (HR), financial and facilities, and/or undertake a narrow range of duties relating to a specific corporate services function, as well as assist in identifying and implementing process improvement opportunities for the efficient and effective provision of corporate services to support school operations.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Contribute to the day to day management support staff within the school/college, including identifying corporate service issues, coordinating recruitment and selection, induction and training of support staff and where necessary, provide Injury Management support for staff.
• Interpreting departmental and school policies, guidelines and ensuring legislative and procedural requirements are met.
• Assist the Principal/Executive Principal/Business Manager in identifying workforce needs including maintaining accurate records, tracking staff data, monitoring staff replacement and ensuring all relevant compliance training is valid and current.
• Assist with the daily supervision of support staff by monitoring workloads, identifying workforce skills needs, and highlighting any performance issues to the Principal/Executive Principal/Business Manager, including research of professional development opportunities for support staff.
• Develop, monitor and track Blue Card processes and Accumulated Days Off (ADO) arrangements, assist with timesheet recording and signatories for support staff and provide advice to staff of leave entitlements
• Under the direction Principal/Executive Principal/Business Manager, organise and manage supply and contract placements for both teaching and support staff.

The school will favour experience with OneSchool and DayMap, it would be highly favourable if you possessed skills and experience with OneSchool Supervisions as well. This position is a 6 month contract with high probability of extension.

Interested? To Apply: 

• Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
• Attach a 2-page written statement in response to the attached role description.
• Attach a copy of your mandatory qualifications/registration outlined in the attached role description 

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.

Further information

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

For a full list of the position responsibilities and mandatory requirements, please ensure you download the attached Role Description and Applicant Information Package and follow the instructions.

Documents

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

• Application Information Package (PDF, 285KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  MSR705265_26T Role Description (PDF, 317KB)
  Role Description