Executive Assistant Hamilton City Council location Waikato.

Here at Hamilton City Council, our purpose is to improve the wellbeing of Hamiltonians. This is our ‘why’ and ensures the people of Hamilton are always our top priority.

The role take your career forward as the new Executive Assistant to our extremely hard-working General Manager of Council’s Infrastructure Operations Group. The role is varied and faced paced, requiring you to think on your feet, anticipate the needs of your manager, while actively and effectively addressing complex situations. Proactive and detailed information management and report compilation, while managing multiple priorities and tight deadlines, will be a key part of this role, so your ability to prioritise, remain focused and work calmly under pressure will be essential. Involvement in project work may also be required, providing exposure to various aspects of the business.

About you we are looking for a highly experienced Executive Assistant, who is preferably familiar with working in a local government environment. As a confident, resilient and self-motivated leader you will demonstrate utmost discretion, exercise sound judgement and show great initiative. You will work extremely closely with your manager to lead the team so your ability to hit the ground running providing proactive, exceptional administration support will enable them to focus on high level management and strategic matters.

In this busy and ever-changing environment, attention to detail and the ability to be self-managing will be a give-in. You are known as a Microsoft ‘guru’ for its suite of products and a ‘go to’ person for problem solving when it comes to technology, systems and virtual meeting set ups. You will thrive on being able to power through the day-to-day responsibilities with confidence and relish the variety of the ad-hoc tasks.

All the while, your customer-focused and can-do mindset will ensure our key partners, stakeholders and customers receive the best possible service. No matter what, you will always be the epitome of professionalism, efficiency and accuracy, always seeking out new and better ways of working. You’ll be welcomed into a culture that’s supportive, united and encourages you to constantly strive to be the best version of yourself.

Hamilton City Council is committed to being a high-performance organisation with people who think differently, act with integrity, make it happen and work together. If this role sounds like it’s for you, we would love to hear from you. We will be shortlisting and interviewing throughout the advertising period, so make it happen and apply online today.