The Women's Centre North Queensland Services - Aitkenvale QLD

Join a feminist, women-centred organisation where your work matters

The Women's Centre is a not-for-profit organisation supporting women and their children across Townsville and the surrounding region, including Ingham, Ayr, Charters Towers and the Townsville Women's Correctional Facility. We provide a range of services including homelessness support, women's health and wellbeing, sexual assault support, and a 24-hour interagency Sexual Assault Response Service.

At the heart of our work is a simple but powerful belief: women deserve safety, dignity, choice, voice and the opportunity to determine their own lives. Our practice is grounded in feminist principles, trauma-informed care, intersectionality, social justice and a commitment to challenging the individual and structural factors that contribute to women's inequality and experiences of violence.

We are now looking for an Executive Assistant to provide high-level, confidential and proactive support to the CEO, the Executive Leadership Team and the Management Committee.

About the role

You will work alongside the Chief Executive Officer to:

- Provide confidential governance support to the Management Committee, including annual schedules, agendas and papers, quality assurance, minutes, decision and action registers, deadline monitoring and follow-up.
- Manage the CEO's calendar, email, correspondence, travel and professional development, exercising discretion and sound judgement.
- Screen and respond to enquiries to the CEO, resolving or redirecting matters appropriately.
- Coordinate executive, leadership and strategic meetings and workshops, including forward planning,



logistics, documentation and follow-through on decisions and actions.
- Coordinate support across the Executive Leadership Team by tracking organisation-wide priorities, deadlines, dependencies and emerging issues, and maintaining clear accountability and information flow.
- Coordinate organisational communications, marketing, social media and events, including fundraising, through planned content, approval processes, consistent messaging, routine engagement monitoring and escalation of sensitive matters.
- Coordinate strategic planning and reporting cycles, including key governance, funding and reporting milestones; collate updates, monitor progress and escalation of risks, delays and interdependencies to the CEO and Executive Leadership Team.
- Research, draft and quality-assure executive correspondence, briefings, reports, presentations, governance papers, agendas and minutes for accuracy, authorisation, audience and timeliness.
- Maintain secure executive and governance information systems, including controlled templates, policies, decisions, meeting records and confidential correspondence, with clear ownership, version control, access, retention and retrieval.
- In conjunction with the Management Committee Secretary, coordinate the Committee's annual work plan,



induction and development, including governance calendars, declarations, records, orientation and approved training or briefings.

What makes this a great place to work?

At the Women's Centre, we value relationships, reflection, humour, kindness and looking out for one another. We want you to have a workplace where you can develop your practice, be supported and contribute your ideas and expertise.

We offer:

- Regular professional development and ongoing learning opportunities
- Salary sacrificing
- Paid birthday leave and Christmas closure periods to support rest, wellbeing and work-life balance
- A supportive, collaborative team environment

About you

We are looking for someone who brings both professional capability and heart to this work. You will be someone who brings:

- Substantial experience providing high-level executive and governance support to a chief executive, executive leadership team and governing body.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex, organisation-wide priorities with substantial autonomy, sound judgement and accountability for outcomes.
- Experience preparing governance papers, correspondence, briefings, reports, agendas and accurate minutes from discussions or notes.
- Strong organisational, prioritisation and problem-solving skills, including anticipating requirements, managing dependencies and meeting competing deadlines.
- Advanced Microsoft Office, database and document-management skills, with accurate and productive keyboard skills.
- Highly developed written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills, discretion and attention to d

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