Administration Officer - Laidley State High School, Education

Queensland Government; Toowoomba Regional; On-site; AUD 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Laidley State High School, part of Education Toowoomba, invites applications for an Administration Officer to support day-to-day corporate services, including HR, finance and facilities. You will assist recruitment, induction and staff management while ensuring compliance with policies and documentation.

The role may involve timesheet recording, staff data tracking, and organising supply/contract placements. Knowledge of OneSchool/DayMap is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Experience in administration within a school or public sector is preferred.
• Ability to interpret policies and ensure compliance.
• Proven capability to coordinate recruitment, induction and training.
• Experience with attendance, HR, finance or facilities tasks is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to day-to-day management of school support staff, recruitment, induction and training.
• Interpreting policies to ensure compliance with departmental requirements.
• Assist in maintaining staff data, tracking replacements and ensuring training validity.
• Supervise workloads and identify staff development opportunities for support staff.
• Organise supply and contract placements for teaching and support staff.
• Develop Blue Card processes and Accumulated Days Off (ADO) arrangements, assist with timesheet recording and leave entitlements.

Skills

HR processes

Recruitment

Record keeping

Policy interpretation

Staff supervision

Tools

OneSchool

DayMap

Job description

Located in the scenic Lockyer Valley, roughly midway between Ipswich and Toowoomba, Laidley State High School is a welcoming rural campus serving around 700 students with a tight-knit team of over 90 staff. The school boasts modern, two-storey facilities including Trade and Creative Arts precincts with engineering, manual arts, music, and film studios, creating a vibrant environment for educators to spark real-world learning and vocational pathways.

Laidley State High School prides itself on how it supports our teaching staff with a wide range of support staff to ensure that all compliance needs are met for our students. Our school services the attendance compliance through two staff members that own their student attendance data, one attendance officer for Year 7-9 and one attendance officer for Year 10-12. We are filling the vacancy for the attendance officer role in year 10-12. This role also caretakes responsibilities with staff absences. The office harbours a sense of belonging with anyone that comes into contact with the office.

Your opportunity:

As the Administration Officer you may undertake work across a broad range of corporate service activities, including human resource (HR), financial and facilities, and/or undertake a narrow range of duties relating to a specific corporate services function, as well as assist in identifying and implementing process improvement opportunities for the efficient and effective provision of corporate services to support school operations.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Contribute to the day to day management support staff within the school/college, including identifying corporate service issues, coordinating recruitment and selection, induction and training of support staff and where necessary, provide Injury Management support for staff.
• Interpreting departmental and school policies, guidelines and ensuring legislative and procedural requirements are met.
• Assist the Principal/Executive Principal/Business Manager in identifying workforce needs including maintaining accurate records, tracking staff data, monitoring staff replacement and ensuring all relevant compliance training is valid and current.
• Assist with the daily supervision of support staff by monitoring workloads, identifying workforce skills needs, and highlighting any performance issues to the Principal/Executive Principal/Business Manager, including research of professional development opportunities for support staff.
• Develop, monitor and track Blue Card processes and Accumulated Days Off (ADO) arrangements, assist with timesheet recording and signatories for support staff and provide advice to staff of leave entitlements
• Under the direction Principal/Executive Principal/Business Manager, organise and manage supply and contract placements for both teaching and support staff.

The school will favour experience with OneSchool and DayMap, it would be highly favourable if you possessed skills and experience with OneSchool Supervisions as well. This position is a 6 month contract with high probability of extension.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.

Administration Officer - Laidley State High School, Education Toowoomba, Australia