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Closes: 11 April 2025

Classification: Administrative Services Officer Class 6
Salary: $99,654 - $113,315 plus superannuation
Position No: 68301
Directorate: Infrastructure Canberra
Advertised (Gazettal date): 28 March 2025
Contact Officer: Tania Butler-Kemp on Tania.Butler-Kemp@act.gov.au or (02) 6207 9668

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Details: Infrastructure Canberra is responsible for leading and supporting the procurement and delivery of the ACT Government’s infrastructure programs. They deliver infrastructure for the Canberra community, improving liveability, and enabling a vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable city.

Within the Delivery Places and Spaces Branch, the Community and Government Engagement Team provides a centralised customer service, business development, and lease management area to support and manage tenants, customers, and clients. The team provides professional building management where property and services are provided to government and non-government clients, and hireable venues spaces and precincts.

They are seeking a detail-oriented and enthusiastic candidate to fill the role of Venues Operations Manager for several well-known hireable venues in Canberra, including Albert Hall, Fitters Workshop, Yarralumla Woolshed, Oaks Estate Community Hall, Former Transport Depot, and Tharwa Community Room.

The Venue Operations Manager position is responsible for overseeing all booking enquiries and venue hire arrangements for these venues. The position will supervise staff but will also have an active role in bookings processes, interactions with clients, and promotion of the venues. This role requires excellent coordination and interpersonal skills. The manager will take ownership of the day-to-day operations, ensuring prospective clients receive professional and efficient service. Responding efficiently and always with a smile, the manager will make clients feel informed and well-supported.

Key responsibilities include managing booking enquiries and venue hire arrangements, ensuring professional and efficient service for clients. The manager will assess booking requests and make recommendations based on client needs. Additionally, they will handle financial records and invoicing, promote venues through various platforms, and manage a small team. The manager will also oversee facility operations, prepare responses to official documents, and support other venue hire tasks as needed. A friendly and professional demeanour will help create a positive experience for all clients, and a detail-oriented and problem-solving nature will allow the manager to succeed in the role.

Infrastructure Canberra is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. They encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes, and sexualities to apply.

Eligibility/ Other Requirements:

• Driver’s License (highly desirable)
• Ability to perform after hours, public holiday or weekend work to support bookings may be required.

Note: This is a temporary position available immediately for a period of 12 months with the possibility of permanency. Selection may be based on application and referee reports only. A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months. Opportunities for flexible working options could include hybrid working, being a combination of working from home, designated office based and FlexiSpace working locations across the ACT, part-time hours, job-sharing, flexible start, and finish times.

How to Apply:  Please submit the following:

1. A two-page pitch that tells the selection committee about your ability to perform the advertised role (knowledge, experience, skills, behaviour) and why you are the best person for this role. The pitch should:

- Show that you have the capabilities in “What you Require” section of the Position Description including Professional/Technical Skills and Knowledge, and Behavioural Capabilities.

- Demonstrate your capacity to perform the duties and responsibilities detailed in “What You Will Do” at the specified classification including examples of how you have done this in the past.

- Tell the panel how your abilities, ingenuity, experience and qualifications make you the best person for this role.

2. A current curriculum vitae including details of work history (roles, timing, responsibilities, achievements), professional memberships and qualifications, and contact details of at least two referees.

Applications should be submitted via the Apply Now Button Below.

Note

This is a temporary position available immediately for a period of 12 months with the possibility of permanency.