Administration Assistant - Community

About this role

Lead with purpose. Shape progress for a growing city. Our Community Development team works with young people, children, seniors, women, people with disability and culturally diverse communities across Blacktown City. As the Administration Assistant, you provide essential support to the Manager, helping ensure the section operates efficiently, remains responsive to community needs and delivers high-quality services. You manage meeting schedules, coordinate agendas and papers, attend meetings and prepare accurate minutes. You respond to enquiries and correspondence, including VIP requests, track actions and due dates, maintain records and support the day-to-day administration of the section. You also process invoices, raise purchase orders, coordinate procurement activities and help monitor calendars, staff training and timesheets. Your work helps the team stay focused on supporting a growing and diverse community of more than 460,000 residents. Through strong organisation skills, attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities, you ensure enquiries, meetings, records and financial processes are managed efficiently and on time. Your support plays an important role in enabling the team to provide quality services and achieve positive outcomes for the community. If you want to make a difference in the community through meaningful work that supports real outcomes, we would love to hear from you. At Blacktown City Council, good people make great teams, and great teams build great cities. Here, you will find the stability and support to keep growing, along with: • a secure, permanent, full-time role with one of Australia's largest councils • an entry level salary commencing at $1,468.72 per week • a 35-hour working week • access to Council's flextime arrangement • 12% superannuation and competitive leave entitlements • ongoing training and development support • access to Fitness Passport, social clubs and wellbeing programs. Our commitment to safety Blacktown City Council is committed to safety. We have introduced alcohol and other drug testing at the pre-employment phase, and via a series of random and cause testing. We are a child safe organisation that supports and promotes the safety, wellbeing and empowerment of children. Position description For more detail on this opportunity, click here to view or download the position description. Closing date: Sunday 16 August 2026, 11.59 pm Contact officer: Michael Maxwell on 9839 6054 Internal ref: BCC2115