Community Development Officer
Canberra Grammar School - Senior School
Australian Capital Territory
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 31 August 2021
Job overview
- Canberra Grammar School is seeking to appoint a Community Development Officer to join the Community Development team.
- CGS is a vibrant and rewarding place to work with staff who are engaging, innovative, and are committed to helping our students be ready for the world
- This is a full-time ongoing position
- Position commences ASAP
- Applications close, Friday 27 August 2021 at 5.00pm
Canberra Grammar School reserves the right to close applications early if a suitable candidate is found.
About Us
Canberra Grammar School is a leading co-educational independent day and boarding school offering outstanding academic education, co-curricular opportunities and pastoral care to students of all backgrounds and faiths within a community guided by Anglican values.
Our fundamental aspiration is to educate students who are curious, creative, confident and compassionate young citizens of the world.
The School is a vibrant and rewarding workplace with a strong commitment to professional learning and to nurturing excellent conditions in a superb campus environment. It offers highly competitive salary and superannuation, as well as attractive salary packaging arrangements, and a range of staff benefits, including parking, discounted lunches, flu vaccinations, employee assistance programmes, school fee concessions, and generous professional development funding.
For more information about the School, please visit: CGS.ACT.EDU.AU.
About the Role
The Community Development Officer will support the strategic objectives of Canberra Grammar School by supporting the management of our integrated Community Development and CGS Foundation Office. The position will interact with a range of stakeholders, engaged in fundraising and community engagement activities. The role has close contact with high-profile and high-value relationships and must exercise discretion, diplomacy, and a high degree of professionalism in dealing with all parties.
About You
The successful applicant is expected to demonstrate:
- Demonstrated ability in providing administrative support to a busy office, taking responsibility for its day-to-day functioning, and in the provision of high-level assistance to senior staff.
- Demonstrated ability to work flexibly, independently, and within a team environment, using initiative, judgement and discretion and adhering to strict confidentiality protocols.
- An ability to work collaboratively and adaptively within a dynamic and busy team.
- A warm and engaging manner of communication with the ability to build relationships in person, on the telephone, and in writing.
- An easy capacity to engage and work with stakeholders of varied ages and backgrounds, including students, parents, staff, and alumni.
- Excellent skills in writing with clarity, accuracy, and warmth.
- Excellent IT skills including Office software, database maintenance, social media management, publication preparation, as well as email bulletin and basic website editing.
- A commitment to operational efficiency and improvement.
- A willingness to learn, to undertake training as required, and to grow and evolve with the role.
- A willingness to uphold the values of the School.
- Be proactive with a high level of initiative and self-motivation; and
- An ability to work within prescribed timelines and meet deadlines.
Staff Benefits
CGS is an employer who promotes staff excellence and offers a range of additional benefits, including various professional development opportunities; superannuation of 11.5% (for permanent staff); a range of salary sacrifice benefits; access to the health clinic and annual influenza vaccinations, staff organisations/associations and representation, an employee assistance programme. And staff awards programme; and many other benefits which you can read about by visiting CGS.ACT.EDU.AU/EMPLOYMENT
To find out more about the School please visit CGS.ACT.EDU.AU
Child Protection
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All employees of the School must be eligible to work with children in accordance with ACT Working with Vulnerable People checks, and all teachers at the School must have teacher registration, provisional registration or a permit to teach issued by the ACT Teacher Quality Institute prior to starting their employment.
How to Apply
For more information about this position, please refer to the full position description below. To apply, please click ‘Apply’ button
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About Canberra Grammar School - Senior School
- Canberra Grammar School - Senior School
- 40 Monaro Crescent, Red Hill
- Australian Capital Territory
- 2603
- Australia
About Us
Canberra Grammar School is a leading co-educational independent day and boarding school offering outstanding academic education, co-curricular opportunities and pastoral care to students of all backgrounds and faiths within a community guided by Anglican values.
Our fundamental aspiration is to educate students who are curious, creative, confident and compassionate young citizens of the world.
The School is a vibrant and rewarding workplace with a strong commitment to professional learning and to nurturing excellent conditions in a superb campus environment. It offers highly competitive salary and superannuation, as well as attractive salary packaging arrangements, and a range of staff benefits, including parking, discounted lunches, flu vaccinations, employee assistance programmes, school fee concessions, and generous professional development funding.
For more information about the School, please visit: CGS.ACT.EDU.AU.
Change the World, Teach at CGS
Canberra Grammar School is a vibrant and rewarding place in which to work. It is also a very exciting time at CGS as the School now offers full co-education across all years, from Pre-School to Year 12, with significant growth to our leadership, teaching and support staff.
By joining the CGS team, you will be working alongside exceptionally dedicated, qualified and experienced staff, and engaging daily with bright, motivated and open-hearted students and to enjoy the amenities of life on a beautiful, open school campus in a city that is clear, uncongested, and affords unrivalled access to many of the leading political, cultural and intellectual institutions of Australia. Canberra is an ideal place in which to live and raise a family. It is within striking distance of the mountains for skiing and the coast for surfing; it is an easy drive from Sydney; there are frequent flights to all parts of Australia and the city itself is virtually traffic-free.
Canberra Grammar School is committed to that by aiming at all times to be a professionally stimulating and rewarding employer; one that is committed to innovation, to high-quality professional development, to the constant interchange of ideas and to personal and professional investment in staff who seek always to enhance the quality of education both within and beyond the School.
That aspiration for staff culture is central to the School’s capacity to flourish in all areas of its endeavour and it is reflected in the School’s commitment to recognising and rewarding staff and to supporting a positive, professional, caring and collegial working environment through:
- Remuneration, terms and conditions that generally compare favourably with those in the non-independent school sectors in the ACT
- The initiatives entailed in the School’s strategic plans for professional learning and renewal
- The on-going financial commitment to the Staff Professional Excellence Fund
- The provision of personal support services and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Program
- A range of personal benefits associated with employment at the School
- Support for collegial staff organisation and representation; and
- Recognition of contribution and outstanding achievement.
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