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We have recently received a capacity building grant and we are expanding our operations. This is a unique opportunity to work for the Invasive Species Council to help tackle one of nature’s biggest threats.

Job description

The Invasive Species Council is seeking an organised and proactive Executive Assistant to provide comprehensive administrative and strategic support to our CEO. The EA will ensure the CEO has everything they need to operate effectively and efficiently, from managing their dynamic calendar and communications to anticipating their needs. You’ll be an integral part of the Operations team, reporting to the Operations Manager and collaborating to keep the organisation running smoothly.

This position offers ideal flexibility for candidates with school-aged children or similar commitments.

 

Key responsibilities:

  • Administrative Support: Managing files, databases, and general office procedures. 
  • Scheduling and Diary Management: Planning and scheduling meetings, coordinating travel arrangements (including for the Board), and managing CEO diary. 
  • Communication: Managing incoming emails and outgoing correspondence, and drafting letters and documents. 
  • Event Coordination: Organising meetings, conferences and events.
  • Project Management: Assisting with project coordination and task management. 
  • Financial Management: Managing CEO and Board expenses and reconciliation. 
  • Meeting Management: Arranging meetings, minute taking, distributing agendas, and following up on action items. 
  • Major donor/Stakeholder Interaction: Administration support to the major donor process including drafting correspondence and scheduling calls.
  • Confidentiality: Maintaining the confidentiality of sensitive information. 
  • Problem-Solving: Making independent decisions and exercising judgment in prioritising tasks. 
  • Strategic Support: Assist with strategic planning and decision-making.

Additional administrative tasks as determined by the CEO or Operations Manager.

 

Essential skills: 

  • Demonstrated experience in providing high level administrative support including excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Excellent staff support and public liaison skills with a commitment to providing a high-quality standard of service. 
  • Highly developed interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to build positive working relationships and networks. 
  • Excellent time management skills and the ability to identify and lead improvements and efficiencies within a small and busy organisation
  • Proactive approach to supporting a busy CEO and anticipating their needs.
  • Proven ability to work autonomously and as part of a team and to enhance positive workplace culture. 
  • Ability to attend twice yearly staff face-to-face meetings, which occur at variable locations across Australia.

Desirable: 

  • General familiarity with environmental and invasive species issues.
  • Experience working with an environmental or other non-government or for-purpose organisations
  • Understanding of organisational systems, processes and governance.

 

Location:

This Wollongong-based position initially operates remotely, transitioning to a hybrid model once our Wollongong office is established in late 2025.

 

Applications

Please send to recruitment@invasives.org.au

  • a resume including
  • at least two referees and
  • cover letter explaining how you meet each of the selection criteria (bullet points preferred)

Applications that do not directly address each criterion will not be accepted. ISC is an equal opportunity employer. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

We encourage interested candidates to apply early. Applications will be reviewed continuously, and interviews may be conducted prior to the closing date.

Applications close:  Sunday 20 July 2025.

Download full position description: Job Description – EA to the CEO

Volunteer Positions

If you are in the Townsville area, please get in touch with our Townsville Yellow Crazy Ant Community Taskforce here to help tackle one of the world’s worst invasive species.

ISC is seeking an administrative volunteer to join the Operations Team in Katoomba. We’re in need of someone computer-confident and with an eye for detail. Primarily support will assist with donations and database management. However there likely be other ad hoc administrative tasks requested. The role is expected to be casual in nature, so hours may vary week by week depending on need, staff and volunteer availability.

Closing Date: Please apply as soon as possible. 

Position: Katoomba Administrative Volunteer
Reports to: Admin Officer
Basis: Variable: approx 4-10 hours per week
Location: Katoomba
Duration: 3 months, with the potential for extension
Remuneration: None. This is an unpaid volunteer role.

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If you are in the Townsville area, please get in touch with our Townsville Yellow Crazy Ant Community Taskforce here to help tackle one of the world’s worst invasive species.

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Your gift is a lifeline for nature.

Our protected areas are being trashed, trampled, choked and polluted by an onslaught of invaders. Invasive species are already the overwhelming driver of our animal extinction rate, and are expected to cause 75 of the next 100 extinctions.

But you can help to turn this around and create a wildlife revival in Australia. 

From numbats to night parrots, a tax-deductible donation today can help defend our wildlife against the threat of invasive weeds, predators, and diseases.

As the only national advocacy environment group dedicated to stopping this mega threat, your gift will make a big difference.

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A silent crisis is unfolding across Australia. Every year, billions of native animals are hunted and killed by cats and foxes. Fire ants continue to spread and threaten human health. And the deadly strain of bird flu looms on the horizon. Your donation today will be used to put the invasive species threat in the media, make invasive species a government priority, ensure governments take rapid action to protect nature and our remarkable native wildlife from invasives-led extinction, death and destruction.

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    The current approach is not solving the problem. Feral horse numbers have rapidly increased in Kosciuszko National Park to around 18,000, a 30% jump in just the past 2 years. With the population so high, thousands of feral horses need to be removed annually to reduce numbers and stop our National Park becoming a horse paddock. Aerial shooting, undertaken humanely and safely by professionals using standard protocols, is the only way this can happen.

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    Dear Project Team,

    [YOUR PERSONALISED MESSAGE WILL APPEAR HERE.] 

    I support the amendment to the Kosciuszko National Park Wild Horse Heritage Management Plan to allow our incredible National Parks staff to use aerial shooting as one method to rapidly reduce feral horse numbers. I want to see feral horse numbers urgently reduced in order to save the national park and our native wildlife that live there.

    The current approach is not solving the problem. Feral horse numbers have rapidly increased in Kosciuszko National Park to around 18,000, a 30% jump in just the past 2 years. With the population so high, thousands of feral horses need to be removed annually to reduce numbers and stop our National Park becoming a horse paddock. Aerial shooting, undertaken humanely and safely by professionals using standard protocols, is the only way this can happen.

    The government’s own management plan for feral horses states that ‘if undertaken in accordance with best practice, aerial shooting can have the lowest negative animal welfare impacts of all lethal control methods’.

    This humane and effective practice is already used across Australia to manage hundreds of thousands of feral animals like horses, deer, pigs, and goats.

    Trapping and rehoming of feral horses has been used in Kosciuszko National Park for well over a decade but has consistently failed to reduce the population, has delayed meaningful action and is expensive. There are too many feral horses in the Alps and not enough demand for rehoming for it to be relied upon for the reduction of the population.

    Fertility control as a management tool is only effective for a small, geographically isolated, and accessible population of feral horses where the management outcome sought is to maintain the population at its current size. It is not a viable option to reduce the large and growing feral horse population in the vast and rugged terrain of Kosciuszko National Park.

    Feral horses are trashing and trampling our sensitive alpine ecosystems and streams, causing the decline and extinction of native animals. The federal government’s Threatened Species Scientific Committee has stated that feral horses ‘may be the crucial factor that causes final extinction’ for 12 alpine species.

    I recognise the sad reality that urgent and humane measures are necessary to urgently remove the horses or they will destroy the Snowies and the native wildlife that call the mountains home. I support a healthy national park where native species like the Corroboree Frog and Mountain Pygmy Possum can thrive.

    Kind regards,
    [Your name]
    [Your email address]
    [Your postcode]