About the role

St Michael's Parish, Nowra is seeking a suitably qualified and experienced Parish Office Administration Manager to provide professional senior administrative, financial and secretarial, parish-based support, with a strong commitment to customer service.

This is a varied role that plays an significant part in the day-to-day operation of the parish, supporting parishioners, families and the Pastoral Team while helping to ensure parish activities and records are well organised and maintained.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead and oversee the efficient operation of the Parish Office

- Oversee financial administration, budgeting, reporting and controls

- Coordinate workforce, contractor and volunteer administration

- Oversee maintenance, security and effective use of parish facilities and assets

- Lead and support safeguarding practices across the parish

- Contribute to parish projects and ministry initiatives

- Manage community facing operations, coordinating enquiries and leading office administration

- Lead financial processing, records management, volunteer administration and parish communications

Key Challenges

- Managing competing priorities while maintaining attention to detail to ensure administrative and financial support is provided in a timely and efficient manner

- Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of St Michael’s Parish organisation, functions, systems and processes, to enable efficient functioning of the parish

- Analysing and solving problems with a high level of discretion, diplomacy, integrity and judgement, while maintaining confidentiality given that issues are often sensitive.

About you

You will be an organised and reliable administration professional who enjoys working with and supporting people and can manage a range of competing priorities with accuracy and discretion. To be successful in this role, you will bring:

- Relevant qualifications in Office Administration,



and/or a minimum of three years demonstrated experience in a senior administrative role, providing high quality administrative and financial support
- The ability and initiative to make decisions, take directions, and anticipate needs, responding flexibly to changing circumstances

- Proven ability to work effectively as a member of a team

- Effective time management skills, managing competing priorities and completing tasks in an efficient and timely manner, ensuring deadlines are met

- Honesty, reliability, punctuality and flexibility, as well as the ability to maintain discretion and confidentiality

- Professional manner and presentation, as well as excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
- The ability to directly respond to incoming telephone, email and face-to-face enquiries, provide information and refer enquiries appropriately as required

- Strong computing and technology skills, including Google suite, MS Office 365, and database management. Knowledge of the Xero financial package is desirable
- A current Working With Children Check (WWCC) for paid employment, or willingness to obtain
- A personal commitment to the Catholic faith and an understanding of the Catholic Church and parish communities

About us

St Michael's Parish is a vibrant and diverse Catholic parish principally serving six church communities across the Shoalhaven (Nowra, Bomaderry, Berry, Culburra, Kangaroo Valley & Vincentia). Along with these communities, the parish also seeks to provide pastoral care and support to local hospitals and aged care facilities, St John the Evangelist High School and St Michael's Primary School, the Aboriginal community and local Defence Force families.

We envision a parish where people encounter Jesus Christ through prayerful and lifegiving worship, experience genuine belonging in a Christ centred and welcoming community, grow in holiness as disciples striving for sainthood, and are empowered to use their gifts in sharing responsibility for the mission of the Church, courageously bringing the Gospel to others.

📌 Parish Office Administration Manager (Nowra)
🏢 Catholic Parish of St Michael's Nowra
📍 Nowra